Center department store (Dresden Altmarkt)

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Altmarkt 25, with rebuilt office building from 1950.

The former "Centrum" department store is the end of the Altmarkt 13-25 street in Dresden , which is named after an HO department store "Centrum" located in the building.

history

As part of an urban planning competition for the reconstruction of Wilsdruffer Straße, the HO stipulated that the commercial building, rebuilt in 1950 in the Bauhaus-Moderne style from 1931 (at that time Kaiser-Stoff-floors and Woolworth) in Wilsdruffer Straße should be extended to the east. In 1955/56 the building located on the northwest corner of the Altmarkt, at the corner of Wilsdruffer Straße , was built according to plans by the architects Alexander Künzer , Rudolf Erler and Wolfgang Klossek . The old building was raised and the department store was expanded to face the old market. The stairs between the old and new building were demolished. After a new Dresden Centrum department store branch was built on Prager Strasse in the 1970s , it was used as an Intecta furniture store until the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Augsburg real estate company Patrizia acquired the two buildings in 2006. The front building from 1955/56 was renovated, the old department store from 1931 demolished. Together with its "sister building" - the Altmarkt building on the north-east corner of the square - it forms the framework for the view from the Altmarkt to the Kulturpalast .

description

The building is a monolithic reinforced concrete frame with sandstone - plaster facade . There are pillars with arcades on the ground floor of the house .

The east facade of the house, which faces the Dresden Altmarkt and is framed at the corners by two pilaster strips in a colossal order , was particularly elaborately designed . The middle of the east facade is emphasized by a protruding, four-window risalit . This central building finds its upper end in a segment of gable , in the tympanum of which a coat of arms held by heraldic lions with the dates 1956 - 13.2. † - 1945–1206 can be read. Dresden was first mentioned in documents in 1206 , and the Altmarkt was built in 1324 . After February 13, a cross stands for the destruction of the city of Dresden in 1945. The year 1956 stands for the completion of the Altmarkt. The lion coat of arms was designed by Max Lachnit .

The north facade, which faces Wilsdruffer Straße, is structured with pilaster strips , bay windows, balustrades and window reveals made of sandstone . The facade is otherwise plastered . Forged window grilles by the blacksmith Karl Bergmann enrich the artistic decoration of the facade. The reliefs in the bay windows were designed by Rudolf Löhner and Karl Schönherr .

Theo Wagenführ took on the interior design . The "Baroque-influenced character of the ... facades [was also expressed inside ..." The motto of the interior was: "The interior architecture should be the continuation of the exterior architecture." In 1957 there was a reception hall on the ground floor and the one on the three upper floors Sales floors. A flight of stairs leads to the sales hall, which combined the 1st and 2nd floors. In the sales hall there was a mural by Rudolf Lipowsky that adorned the stairwell to the third floor. Women and textiles were the subject of the painting. “Precious glass chandeliers” adorned the sales floors.

Web links

Commons : Centrum Warenhaus (Dresden, Altmarkt)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra and Martin Wörner (eds.): Architecture guide Dresden . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 .
  • Walter May, Werner Pampel and Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979.
  • Alexander Künzer: HO department store in Dresden, corner building at Altmarkt / Ernst-Thälmann-Strasse. In: Deutsche Architektur, born 1957, issue 1, p. 10.
  • Johannes Rascher: The interior design of the shops in the residential buildings on the west side of the Altmarkt in Dresden. In: Deutsche Architektur, Born 1957, Issue 1, pp. 450–459.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Architecture 6/1954
  2. ↑ Lupfer u. a., image no. 13 (Former HO department store "Centrum" Altmarkt 25 Wilsdruffer Straße, 1956, Alexander Künzer.)
  3. ↑ May et al., P. 23 image no. 7 (2) [Department Store Centrum]
  4. ↑ Künzer, p. 10
  5. ↑ Rascher p. 450
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neumarkt-dresden.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '0.5 "  N , 13 ° 44' 12.8"  E