Princely House (Dresden)

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Princely house
Fragment of the prince's bay

The Princely House was a building on Schloßstraße 30, at the corner of Sporergasse , in Dresden . In 1945 it was destroyed; Fragments have been preserved. The facade of the house is to be reconstructed in the near future by Baywobau Dresden.

history

The Princely House dates from around 1500, as indicated by the late Gothic window frames. It was acquired by Magdalena von Militz auf Schenkenberg or a Mr. Schenken and renovated from 1609 to 1610 under the supervision of Melchior Brenner . The stone carving on the house was carried out by Hans Steyer , who is also named as the master builder for numerous Dresden official buildings and for the palaces in Dresden (1615) and Mutzschen (1634). The painters Peter D. Brück and Christoph Gromm also took part.

In the second third of the 17th century the house came into the possession of Johann Burchardi, who had it redesigned in 1678. Hans Steyer's bay window was given a second floor. Next to the year MDCLXXVIII (= 1678) the inscription Jehovae Bonitate constantissimi moriar was attached. On the floor above, the inscription Jehovahe justitia moriar could be seen, as well as a sign on which the tetragram was written in Hebrew letters, surrounded by rays and angel heads . The fifth floor of the bay window probably came from around 1860 and thus from the same time as a balcony of the bay window, which had an iron grating with the inscription IL 1861 .

The Princely House was destroyed in the bombing of Dresden in February 1945. The oriel relief of the electors was recovered damaged in the same year. The so-called “Fürstenerker” is part of the permanent exhibition in the Dresden City Museum . It is planned to reconstruct the Princely House. In the so-called “Quartier VII” of Dresden's Neumarkt , the building will be redesigned in terms of its internal layout, but it will belong to the buildings with a leading facade, i.e. H. the facade will be faithfully restored. It is planned to include the relief fragments in the new building.

description

Around 1900 the interior of the renovation had not been preserved. Cornelius Gurlitt described the bay facing Schloßstraße as the only remarkable element of the building. The bay window was executed by Hans Steyer during the renovation and was one of the oldest bay windows on Dresden buildings around 1900. In 1955 Fritz Löffler called it the “oldest and at the same time most valuable oriel made of sandstone”, which had been preserved on a Dresden town hall until 1945. The bay parapet showed Christian II in armor with a sword over his shoulder and a field bandage over his chest. To the right of him is his wife Hedwig of Denmark , who wears a “huge hoop skirt” on which both hands rest. In the architrave of the base, the coat of arms of the Duchy of Saxony-Wittenberg was attached on the left, the spa coat of arms in the middle and the Danish coat of arms on the right.

literature

  • Fritz Löffler: The old Dresden. History of his buildings . Sachsenverlag , Dresden 1955, p. 30; Fig. 48, p. 349.
  • Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Volume 23: City of Dresden, Part 2 . In Commission at CC Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1903, pp. 416–417.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schlossstrasse 14 - Princely House - Arstempano. Retrieved February 26, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Volume 23: City of Dresden, Part 2 . In Commission at CC Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1903, p. 416.
  3. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Volume 23: City of Dresden, Part 2 . In commission at CC Meinhold & Söhne, Dresden 1903, p. 417.
  4. ↑ Cf. Matthias Lerm: Farewell to old Dresden. Loss of historical building stock after 1945 . Forum Verlag, Leipzig 1993, p. 231.
  5. ↑ See exposée on Quartier VII on dresden.de (PDF; 4.7 MB)
  6. ^ Gesellschaft Historischer Neumarkt ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neumarkt-dresden.de
  7. ^ Paul Schumann: Dresden . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1909, p. 85.
  8. ^ Fritz Löffler: The old Dresden. History of his buildings . Sachsenverlag, Dresden 1955, p. 30.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 6.5 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 15.5 ″  E