Dippoldiswalder Platz
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 The Margon House on Dippoldiswalder Platz with the striking illuminated advertising |
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| place | Dresden |
| District | Inner old town |
| Confluent streets | Marienstraße , Wallstraße , Dr.-Külz-Ring , Waisenhausstraße , Trompeterstraße , Reitbahnstraße , Budapester Straße |
| Buildings | Margon House , Center Gallery |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , public transport , car traffic |
The Dippoldiswalder place is in Dresden's city center on the border of Inner Old Town and Seevorstadt located place. It is named after the small town of Dippoldiswalde in the Eastern Ore Mountains and was built at the Merkur Bastion of the Dresden fortifications . A well-known building was the Trompeterschlösschen inn and hotel, which was destroyed in 1945 . Today the Centrum-Galerie and the “ Margon-Haus ” shape the square.
location
Dippoldiswalder Platz is located in the district of Altstadt I in the Inner Old Town district of Dresden, where it forms the transition to Seevorstadt. Here the four-lane Budapester Strasse coming from the west turns into Waisenhausstrasse and Dr.-Külz-Ring . The Waisenhausstraße is only accessible from the square in the direction of Georgplatz , the Dr.-Külz-Ring running parallel to it takes the opposite direction. With this west-east street, the Reitbahnstraße at the south end of the square and the streets Marienstraße and Wallstraße to the north intersect . Trompeterstraße branches off diagonally between Reitbahnstraße and Waisenhausstraße from Dippoldiswalder Platz to Prager Straße .
The center of the square is an undeveloped area, which is bordered by the traffic routes and especially on the south and east sides of buildings. With the Post- , Georg-, Pirnaischen and Rathenauplatz , the Dippoldiswalder Platz is one of the squares along the promenade ring around the inner old town.
history
The square was created as a junction of several paths in the Seegraben between the Old Lake and the New Lake in front of the Seeberg (from 1721 Merkur Bastion) of the Dresden city fortifications. It was initially called "Am Festungsgraben" and later "Am Schlößchen" or "Am Trompeterschlößchen" in reference to the inn on the square, which has been documented since the 17th century. In 1830 it was named "Dippoldiswald (a) er Platz" for the first time. With the demolition of the city fortifications at the beginning of the 19th century, the square found a direct traffic connection to the old town. The closest city gates were previously the Wilsdruffer Tor on today's Postplatz and the Seetor east of Dippoldiswalder Platz .
With the growth of the suburb of the lake, Dippoldiswalder Platz also became more important for traffic. It was the junction of Marienstraße, Johannesring (predecessor of Dr.-Külz-Ring), Waisenhausstraße, Trompeterstraße, Reitbahnstraße, Großer Plauenscher Straße (predecessor of Budapester Straße) and the street “Am See”.
Under the rule of the National Socialists, City Planning Officer Paul Wolf worked out a plan for the comprehensive urban redevelopment of Dresden, which included the construction of a wide boulevard from Wiener Platz via Dippoldiswalder and Antonsplatz to Postplatz. In addition, the Johannesring should be extended to the Falkenbrücke . This would have been accompanied by the large-scale demolition of buildings along the new streets and at Dippoldiswalder Platz and its fundamental redesign as a junction between two large connecting streets. However, these plans were not implemented.
With the exception of the Dresdner Bank building, all of the buildings on Dippoldiswalder Platz fell victim to the air raids on Dresden in 1945 . A reconstruction plan adopted by the Dresden city council in January 1946 envisaged the rebuilding of the city center largely according to the old floor plans. These construction plans were then implemented in the GDR . The idea of extending the Ring and Waisenhausstrasse to the west, which had already been developed in the 1930s, was implemented with Budapester Strasse and the associated bridge over the railway systems by 1967. The street “Am See” was decoupled from the square and has since ended as a dead end in front of it. Instead, Wallstraße running parallel to Marienstraße was integrated into the square. In the general development plan of 1967, the expansion of Dr.-Karl-Rüderich-Strasse (Reitbahnstrasse) and Dr.-Otto-Nuschke-Strasse (Marienstrasse) was also planned.
From the end of the 1950s, the place officially had no name. Only since 1991 has it been called "Dippoldiswalder Platz" again.
With the completion of the Centrum-Galerie, Trompeterstrasse was rebuilt as a covered pedestrian connection to Prager Strasse, and at the same time the space at the confluence was expanded to include an area with seating and a water feature.
- Development of Dippoldiswalder Platz
1216: Place between the New and the Old Lake
1549: Location in front of the Seeberg
1821: after Dresden was de-fortified
around 1895: with identification of the tram routes
around 1930: the place before the bombing of Dresden
2015: current condition
Development
Before the Second World War, there were a few inns on Dippoldiswalder Platz. The best known was the Trompeterschlösschen , on whose property an inn has been documented since the 17th century. Other hotels and restaurants in the immediate vicinity were the Curländer Haus, Schadts Gasthaus and the Hotel Stadt Weimar. On the east side is the only preserved pre-war building on the square, the Dresdner Bank building built in 1905 in neo-baroque and art nouveau styles. Today it houses a branch of Commerzbank .
After the war, the areas cleared of rubble in the GDR were rebuilt in the style of socialist architecture. So the office building was built for the 1966 Economic Council of the district of Dresden new. Since 1967, on the short side facing Dippoldiswalder Platz, a neon sign for Margon water has been attached to the skyscraper, popularly known as the Margon House . It has been a listed building since 1998 and was preserved during the renovation of the building in the early 2000s. The building itself was the seat of the Saxon Ministry of Economic Affairs for some time after the fall of the Wall .
On the other side of Reitbahnstraße, the Centrum Warenhaus was built between 1973 and 1978 according to plans by Ferenc Simon and Ivan Fokvari. The building was particularly noticeable because of its aluminum honeycomb facade. It was operated by the Centrum Warenhaus- Gesellschaft and later by Karstadt . From 2007 to 2009 the Centrum Galerie , a shopping center designed by Peter Kulka , was built on this site and incorporated the honeycomb structure of the old department store into the new facade design. Trompeterstraße and the small forecourt were newly built between the actual Centrum Galerie and an adjoining building. A sculpture created by Paul Polte in 1929 was set up there, which used to be at the Trompeterschlösschen and was recovered from the rubble after its destruction.
Between Marienstrasse and Budapester Strasse, a medical center and apartment blocks were built using prefabricated panels. There is a large children's playground on the area between Marienstrasse and Wallstrasse. On the northeast side of the square between Wallstrasse and Dr.-Külz-Ring there are large-block residential and commercial buildings built in the 1950s that stretch across the entire site between Wallstrasse, Seestrasse , Külz-Ring and Wilsdruffer Strasse .
traffic
Before the Second World War, tracks on the Dresden tram led from Plauenschen Platz via Dippoldiswalder Platz and Marienstraße to Postplatz. A bus stop was set up at Dippoldiswalder Platz. Since Plauensche Platz and Große Plauensche Straße were not rebuilt in pre-war form after the war, the tram has led from Postplatz via Marienstraße, Dippoldiswalder Platz and Waisenhausstraße / Dr.-Külz-Ring to Georgplatz. There is no longer a tram stop here, but a bus stop called "Reitbahnstraße", which is served by Line 62.
In the course of the 2006 construction work around the Postplatz (construction of the central stop), Dippoldiswalder Platz also underwent some renovations. The tram tracks were moved from Marienstrasse to Wallstrasse and these were closed to motorized individual traffic.
The “Stadtbahn 2020” concept of the Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe envisages the construction of a new tram route from the existing tracks at Dippoldiswalder Platz via Budapester and Chemnitzer Straße to Plauen . However, the project was postponed for the time being due to high costs and not registered with the federal government for funding.
Web links
- Dippoldiswalder Platz in the Stadtwiki Dresden
Individual evidence
- ^ The planned "Gauforum Dresden". In: The New Dresden. Retrieved July 21, 2015 .
- ^ Exhibition "The New Dresden". In: The New Dresden. Retrieved July 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Dippoldiswalder Platz. In: Dresden Lexicon. Retrieved July 21, 2015 .
- ^ Friedrich Kummer (arr.): Dresden and the Elbe area. in the Google book search, Dresden around 1910.
- ↑ Stadtbahn 2020. In: dresden.de. Dresden City Administration, accessed on July 21, 2015 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 47.9 ″ N , 13 ° 44 ′ 0.3 ″ E