Drude construction

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Drude construction

The Drude building at Zelleschen Weg 40 in Dresden is a teaching building of the TU Dresden .

description

The building was designed by the architects Walter Henn , Fritz Schaarschmidt and Karl Wilhelm Ochs and built from 1950 to 1952. The two-storey teaching building with 2051 square meters of usable space is a "functionally emphasized [r]" and typical, traditionally designed building from the 1950s in "sandstone plaster architecture". The north wing offers a rising lecture hall with an experimental stage and 111 seats. At the entrance to the building there is a sandstone bas-relief from the plant world by Reinhold Langner in the door reveals . It shows, among other things, birds and plants.

Except for the entrance area and the side pergola design, the exterior of the Drude building is simple. The associated gardens were planned and designed by Werner Bauch . The building with two greenhouses from 1955 and the outdoor facilities as a vivid example of the garden art of that time is a cultural monument according to the Saxon Monument Protection Act of local historical, architectural and garden historical importance.

The Drude building, formerly the seat of the Institute for Botany, is now the seat of the Institute for Hydrobiology of the TU Dresden. It was named in 1953 after the professor of botany and rector of the University Oscar Drude .

literature

  • Walter May, Werner Pampel and Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979.
  • Technical University of Dresden: buildings and names . Klingeberg Buchkunst, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-86005-176-8 , p. 17.

See also

Web links

Commons : Drude-Bau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Drude building . In: Walter May, Werner Pampel and Hans Konrad (eds.): Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979, p. 57, no. 84 (13).
  2. ^ Technical University of Dresden: Buildings and names . Klingeberg Buchkunst, Leipzig 1997, p. 17.
  3. ↑ a b Cultural monuments in the Free State of Saxony: Monument Document Obj.-Dok.-Nr. 09306703, Drude-Bau . Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  4. ^ Lecture hall 68 in the Drude building in the campus navigator of the TU Dresden.
  5. ^ Drude building (DRU): Reinhold Langner (1905–1957) . In: TU Dresden: Awakening and a new beginning. Acquisitions and commissioned work from the 1950s. The art collection of the TU Dresden . Exhibition catalog. Elbtal, Dresden 2018, p. 38.
  6. ↑ Bernard Sterra et al .: Dresden and its architects. Currents and tendencies 1900–1970 . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2011, p. 126.
  7. ↑ Barbara Ditsch: Drude, Oscar . In: Dorit Petschel: 175 years of TU Dresden: The professors of TU Dresden, 1828–2003 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2003, ISBN 3412025038 , pp. 173–4.

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 39.3 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 52.8"  E