Fürstenberg's house

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The Fürstenbergsche Haus or Palais Fürstenberg was a residential palace built in Dresden in the 16th century . It was on the corner of Schlossplatz 1 and Augustusstrasse .

Original construction

The original two-storey building had a hall and was provided with gables . In the 17th century a bay window was added, which rested on two Tuscan columns . The palace was at this time including the home of Giovanni Maria Nosseni . The Saxon Elector Johann Georg IV bought it from the owner Hans Kasper von Schönberg and had it rebuilt. Then he gave it to his lover Magdalena Sibylla von Neitschütz . After their two deaths, the new Elector Friedrich August I left the palace to his governor Anton Egon Fürstenberg , whose name passed to the palace. In 1701 Johann Friedrich Böttger lived in the palace, the cellar of which was converted into a laboratory. Also Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus worked here, in 1708 he died during a visit to his friend Furstenberg. After the house became the property of the elector again, it was given to Count Aleksander Józef Sułkowski in 1734 and to Count Heinrich von Brühl in 1759 .

Remodeling and demolition

View from 1843

From 1768 to 1786 the art academy was housed in the Fürstenberg house. For this purpose, it was rebuilt in 1766 by Christian Friedrich Exner . Exner put on a third floor, and the gables fell away. The building also served as a residence for the art professors.

After the Art Academy moved out, the Fürstenbergsche Haus was the seat of the Secret Finance College and, from 1838, the seat of the Ministry of Finance. To this end, it was combined with the neighboring Charon house at Augustusstrasse 2. The Charon house was built by Georg Haase in 1720 . Since then, the Fürstenbergsche Haus has also been referred to as the “finance house”. After the Ministry of Finance had moved , the Fürstenbergsche Haus and the Brühlsche Palais on Brühlsche Terrasse were demolished for the new construction of the Saxon State House in 1894.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 11 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 21 ″  E