Third Belvedere

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View of the third Belvedere
Executed draft
The unfinished draft shows a round temple as a pavilion building on the upper floor, modeled on the Pantheon in Rome.

The Third Belvedere on the Brühlsche Terrasse in Dresden was a classicist building erected in 1814 by Christian Friedrich Schuricht , a student of Friedrich August Krubsacius . Along with the old town main guard , the gatehouses at the Leipziger Tor , the Palais Lüttichau , the domed hall of Pillnitz Castle and the rebuilt swan house by Woldemar Hermann, it was one of the few examples of purely classicist buildings in old Dresden. It is characterized as a typical building of the “Dresden Doric Classicism under the influence of revolutionary architecture” and was the third of the four buildings at this location .

history

Schuricht built the third Belvedere on Brühl's Terrace in 1814. The order for this was given to Prince Repnin , a Russian governor residing in Palais Brühl. The architect drew up several plans for the new Belvedere, with all plans having a base as a basement in common, where there was a vestibule with six Doric columns.

In the completed construction, a temple-like structure with a viewing terrace was built on the basement. The structure showed rectangular shapes with round arches and strong keystones . A straight flight of stairs led to the building through the Brühl Gardens . There was also the front side of the pavilion , which had a three-part portal with a round arched door in the middle, which was flanked on both sides by rectangular windows. Both the door and the windows had been grouped together in a square shape from the rear . Construction was canceled in 1842.

One of the unrealized designs showed a round temple on the upper floor as a pavilion with a flat-vaulted dome and impluvium , modeled on the Pantheon in Rome. In front of the building was a porch with a triangular gable , which rested on Ionic pilasters . While the architecture of the basement was based on the theories of Friedrich August Krubsacius , the structure was based on the teachings of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux .

Another unexecuted design showed a two-storey complex in which the vestibule with the six columns on the upper floor was to be repeated. A last variant envisaged using the roof of the structure as a second viewing terrace, to which external stairs should lead.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zumpe, pp. 159–163 [Das third Belvedere] and Helas, p. 14f [Die Architektur des Klassizismus], p. 178 [III. Belvedere. Bruehl Terrace. 1814 by Schuricht on behalf of Prince Repnin] and Löffler, p. 341f [Die Revolutionsarchitektur and Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer] and p. 368, 399.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 10.4 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 42.4 ″  E