Wilsdruffer Strasse
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| View between Wilsdruffer (right) and Sophienstraße (2019) | |
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| place | Dresden |
| District | Inner old town |
| Created | 1858 |
| Newly designed | from 1950 |
| Hist. Names | Ernst-Thalmann-Strasse |
| Cross streets | White Lane , Landhausstrasse, Schloßstrasse, Galeriestrasse |
| Places | Postplatz , Pirnaischer Platz , Altmarkt |
| Buildings | Kulturpalast , Landhaus , Wilsdruffer Kubus |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , motor traffic |
| Road design | Fountain |
The Wilsdruffer street in Dresden is a wide thoroughfare in the Old Town . It connects Postplatz and Pirnaischer Platz .
history
from the market square (L) with the town hall (M ) to Wilsdorffer Thor (A) out of the city.
From Wilischen Gasse until 1945
Wilsdruffer Straße was first mentioned in 1396 as Wilandsgasse. Their changing names include Wilische Gasse and Wilsdorfer Gasse. It led from the Altmarkt at the level of Schloßstraße to Wilsdruffer Platz, which has been called Postplatz since 1865 . At the exit of Wilischen Gasse, the Wilsdruffer Tor stood on the fortifications from the 15th century to 1811 . From there a road led west to the town of Wilsdruff . The Wilsdruffer suburb was created along that street through settlements in front of the city walls .
During the Dresden May uprising a large barricade was erected in the alley, it fell on May 9, 1849. In 1858, Wilische Gasse was redesigned and renamed Wilsdruffer Strasse.
From 1900 it was known as a shopping street with historical buildings. The hotel and restaurant "Goldener Engel" and the "Löwenapotheke" belonged to the buildings. At the beginning of the 20th century, the road was widened for traffic reasons. The town houses on the south side were demolished, instead large department and commercial buildings were built. The Alsberg brothers had had business premises on the north side since 1907. As a result of several property purchases, Gebr. Alsberg AG was able to acquire an ultimately contiguous area in the 1920s, on which the new Alsberg department store was built in 1929/1930 . During the air raids on Dresden , the street and buildings were destroyed with the exception of a department store built in 1931.
Koenig-Johann-Strasse
König-Johann-Strasse was east of the originally laid out Wilsdruffer Strasse and, as its extension, led from the Altmarkt to Pirnaischer Platz. It was laid out from 1886 to 1888 according to plans by Oswald Haenel as a completely new road breakthrough to create a continuous inner-city east-west road connection. The Badergasse was built over. Badergasse was a narrow cul-de-sac. It led from the Altmarkt to Kleine Frohngasse and was named after the Ratsbaderei. For the construction of König-Johann-Straße, 46 houses at the end of Badergasse were demolished, including the Palais Brühl in the adjacent Schießgasse. For this purpose, commercial buildings from the early days were built.
The only remaining historic building was the country house at the east end of the street. In 1919 the street named after the Saxon King Johann was renamed Johannstraße. The air raids on Dresden in February 1945 destroyed the street and all adjoining buildings, which with the exception of the Landhaus were not rebuilt.
Wilsdruffer Strasse after 1945
In the 1950s, Dresden and the street were redesigned and rebuilt. An east-west thoroughfare widened by up to 61 meters was implemented along the course of the Wilsdruffer and Johannstrasse. In order to make this drastic widening possible, all of the northern adjacent properties on Wilsdruffer Strasse were pulled in and not built on again. In this way, parallel to Landhausstraße and thus obliquely to Johannstraße standing lost Cottage part of his garden and the eastern wing. The neighboring building to the west was designed in such a way that, as an angular structure, it forms an optical transition from the preserved side wing of the country house to the street.
The street was used for marches, including on May 1st. In 1954, the Wilsdruffer and Johannstrasse as a whole were given the name "Ernst-Thälmann-Strasse" on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Ernst Thälmann's death . In 1991 the entire street was renamed Wilsdruffer Strasse.
The event building Kulturpalast , the country house and commercial and residential buildings shape the street.
At the western entrance of the Wilsdruffer Straße there was a cube-shaped restaurant building on the northern side until 2007 (popularly called " Fresswürfel "). An office building, the “Wilsdruffer Kubus”, has been erected in its place. Opposite was the former Lindehaus with the " Haus des Buches " shop, which was previously housed here . It was demolished in 2009 to expand the Altmarkt-Galerie .
Architecturally worth seeing are the buildings number 3 , number 19-21 and Altmarkt 25 , some of which are listed, built in the style of socialist classicism .
Facade decoration in sandstone on Wilsdruffer Straße
View over Postplatz and the rebuilt Wilsdruffer Strasse (1969 Ernst-Thälmann-Strasse), in front on the left the HO restaurant “Am Zwinger” , on the right the Lindehaus and in the center of the picture the skyscraper on Pirnaischer Platz
North view of Wilsdruffer Strasse am Landhaus, October 2012
Demolition of the Lindehaus, September 2009
Portal with profiled vestments and decorative frieze
Hotel Golden Angel
The Golden Angel was an inn built around 1715 at Wilischen Gasse 7 . The five-story building was built in the baroque style. It was named after a sandstone angel by Christian Gottlieb Kühn above the entrance. The hotel with 24 rooms and stables for 24 horses was one of Dresden's most famous hotels. The guests included Friedrich Schiller (September 11-12, 1785) and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (September 16-25, 1810). The Freiberg geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner lived in the hotel from 1808 and died there on June 30, 1817. In 1930 the hotel was demolished.
Plastic design
Numerous fountains were set up along the street. In 1969, a well covered with river stones was built in the open space in front of the country house. The fountain was 4.8 by 4.8 meters. In the middle there was a fountain with a volcanic nozzle. The pool floor is made of terrazzo. In 1990/91 it was reconstructed and later dismantled. In 2006 a modern water system was installed in front of the country house, in which the water from a small fountain flows over a canal into a water basin.
In 1969, three fountains were created in front of the Kulturpalast . These were terrazzo basins with the dimensions 7.9 by 8.55 meters. In each of the basins there was a jet fountain on an area of 3 by 3 meters and at the edge of the basin there were 24 small heap fountains. The fountains were later removed in the course of the breakthrough in Galeriestrasse, just as fountains on Wilsdruffer Strasse had to give way to the breakthrough in Kleine Kirchgasse.
literature
- City Lexicon Dresden A – Z. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
- Art in public space. Information brochure of the state capital Dresden, December 1996.
- Georg Funk: Competition for the urban and architectural design of the east-west thoroughfare in Dresden. In: Deutsche Architektur , No. 6, year 1954, pp. 240–247.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ das-neue-dresden.de
- ↑ The breakthrough in Badergasse in Dresden, will it serve to beautify the city? Dresden 1885
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 0.3 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 20.1" E