F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz
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 Müllerbrunnen on F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz |
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| place | Dresden |
| District | Plauen |
| Created | 1897 |
| Hist. Names | Rathausplatz (1897–1911), Chemnitzer Platz (1911–1953) |
| Confluent streets | Altplauen , Müllerbrunnenstrasse, Klingenberger Strasse, Chemnitzer Strasse , Nöthnitzer Strasse , Coschützer Strasse |
| Buildings | Town hall Plauen |
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| Space design | Müllerbrunnen |
The F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz is a place named after the writer Franz Carl Weiskopf (1900–1955) in the Dresden district of Plauen . Built as planned from 1895, it has since replaced the former village center of Plauen Oberdorf and has also been a hub for road traffic and public transport in the south-west of Dresden.
Location and layout
The F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz is located northwest of the intersection of Chemnitzer / Coschützer Straße and Nöthnitzer Straße . It is surrounded on all sides by streets which, with the exception of the east side (Chemnitzer Straße), also bear the street name F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz . The area bounded by the surrounding streets is green in the eastern part, in the western part there is a paved area around the Müllerbrunnen . This inner area measures around 20 × 60 meters, while the area between the peripheral buildings is around 45 × 100 meters.
In addition to Chemnitzer, Coschützer and Nöthnitzer Strasse, which are located on the east side of the square, the streets Altplauen , Müllerbrunnenstrasse and Klingenberger Strasse are connected on the opposite side.
history
Until the end of the 19th century, the buildings of the Plauener Oberdorf were located on today's square, and the village pond of the Plauen Oberdorf, a rainwater pool, to the southwest of today's square . It was backfilled in 1875, which in the meantime was also necessary for hygienic reasons. From 1895 the square was laid out according to plan and rebuilt with representative buildings in historicism . The most striking building on the new square was the Plauen town hall , which was completed in 1894 and was the then still independent community at the gates of Dresden. The mill owner Bienert donated the building site for the town hall to the community. This building gave the actual square created in 1897 its first name, Rathausplatz .
In 1902, the architects Lossow & Viehweger, in collaboration with the Plauen sculptor Robert Henze, created the Müllerbrunnen for the west side of the square. After Plauen became a district of Dresden at the beginning of 1903, the Rathausplatz at the end of Chemnitzer Strasse was given the new name Chemnitzer Platz in 1911 .
The first tram line ran - initially as a horse-drawn tram - from 1873 initially on a single track from the Böhmischer Bahnhof via Chemnitzer Strasse (today's Budapester / Chemnitzer Strasse street) to what will later be the Rathausplatz (Westendschlößchen). In 1880 the line was moved over the Falkenbrücke to Postplatz, electrified in July 1890 and in 1894 it was expanded to two tracks in Plauen (in connection with the paving of Chemnitzer Straße). In 1897 the route from Chemnitzer Strasse was extended to Plauenschen Ring. From 1909 the Rathausplatz became the end point of a second tram line, the extended route from Bernhardstraße to Plauen Town Hall. In 1927 it was extended from Plauen Town Hall to the end point of Habsburgerstraße on the Plauen Grundbahn line on Tharandter Straße, which had existed since 1902, and Chemnitzer Platz thus became a crossing point. In 1927, the tram route from Plauen Ring to Coschütz was also extended.
The air raids in World War II destroyed parts of the buildings on Chemnitzer Platz. In order to gain rails for the repair of other destroyed lines, the lines in Nöthnitzer and Chemnitzer Strasse were not put back into operation and the tracks were expanded. In order to nevertheless ensure a connection of the Streckenastes according Coschuetz, was a single-track connection from Plauenschen ring (corner Coschützer Street, d. H. South of the square) by the warrior road to the road Altplauen newly laid, so as to provide connection of Coschuetz from the Plauensche subway produce (Closed in 1998).
In 1953, both Chemnitzer Strasse and Chemnitzer Platz were given the name of the writer Franz Carl Weiskopf, who was chairman of the German Writers' Association in the GDR from 1953 until his death in 1955 . The city of Chemnitz was renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt in the same year .
After 1990 Chemnitzer Straße got its previous name back, F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz kept the name.
Development
Before the construction of the square in its current form, the upper village of Plauen was located there. At the confluence of today's Klingenberger Strasse there was an estate from 1608, including some farms. Opposite was a forge . Directly on the square was a former farmstead with a bakery (later Glafeys Kuchengarten ), opposite, right on the corner of Chemnitzer- and Räcknitzer (from 1876: Nöthnitzer) street, since 1844 a road house with a turnpike. From 1873 to the north, right next to Glafeys Kuchengarten, there was a carriage hall for Dresden's first tram line.
In 1887, the building regulations and development plans of Plauen were approved by the Royal Saxon Ministry of the Interior, and in 1895 the planning of the square was completed. The Chausseehaus, acquired by the community of Plauen, was torn down as early as 1887 and replaced by the first large new building on the future square. In 1896 the property (last called Mosescher Freihof , until 1896 also municipal office), the adjoining buildings and Glafey's cake garden were demolished.
The Wilhelminian style development , which began in 1887, was based on historicism. Four-story residential and commercial buildings were built, including the “Zum Müllerbrunnen” inn on the west side. The south-west corner of the square remained undeveloped , the former Krauss'sche farm was preserved - in structural remainders - and was a commercially used area until after 1990.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the takeover of the Hofmühle by the Bienert family , the Müllerbrunnen was set up in 1902 on Rathausplatz. It was intended to commemorate the traditional mill location Plauen and the poet Wilhelm Müller , who lived there for some time. The bronze sculpture was melted down for armament purposes in 1942 and restored in 1986.
After the destruction of the air raids in 1945 on the one hand and the fire in the Westendschlösschen caused by soldiers of the Red Army on the other, and the clearing of the ruins, the square remained largely a torso after 1945; the remains of the Westendschlösschen were opened on one floor as a row of shops. Around 1965 a vacant lot was closed by a series construction on the north side. Further new buildings, which led to the closed development of the square, which are again present today, were not tackled until after 1990. The corner development of the square with individual houses opposite the town hall was abandoned by a development plan after 2000 and finally replaced by a closed square wall built in 2006 on the south side. Although this was already planned around 1900, it was never realized. This southern closure by a building block is used as a nursing home and offers retail space on the ground floor.
In addition to the Müllerbrunnen itself, the apartment buildings F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz 2–4 and F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz 9 are now (as of mid-2016) listed buildings .
traffic
Motor vehicle traffic mainly uses the Altplauen – F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz – Nöthnitzer Strasse connection with around 8,500 vehicles per day. The proportion of heavy goods traffic is eight to ten percent. The direction from Altplauen to Nöthnitzer was used by around 2900 motor vehicles (motor vehicles), the opposite direction by 5600 motor vehicles (data as of 2013).
At F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz there are a total of four bus stops with the name Rathaus Plauen from lines of the Dresden transport company . Two of them are in Chemnitzer Strasse, south of the actual square, and two on the south side of the square. Bus lines 62 ( Dölzschen - Johannstadt ), 63 ( Löbtau - Pillnitz / Graupa / Bonnewitz ) and 85 ( Striesen - Löbtau-Süd ) stop at them (as of August 2016) , whereby line 62 has both stops due to its route twice in a row a stop Rathaus Plauen , served. Trams no longer stop since the route to Coschütz via Südvorstadt was re- routed and the route from Coschütz via Plauen to Löbtau was closed in 1998. Considerations of re-establishing a tram connection from the city center to F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz with various possible endpoints (including the Plauen stop of the Dresden S-Bahn ) have not yet been planned in depth beyond studies.
Web links
- F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz on dresdner-stadtteile.de
- F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz in the Stadtwiki Dresden
literature
- Paul Dittrich: Between Hofmühle and Heidenschanze. History of the Dresden suburbs Plauen and Coschütz. 2nd, revised edition. Dresden, Adolf Urban 1941.
Individual evidence
- ↑ It also absorbed the sewage from the old upper village, see Dittrich, p. 148, fn. 163.
- ↑ Dittrich, p. 143. The depot should have been abandoned at this point in time.
- ↑ Dittrich, pp. 143/144
- ^ Dittrich, p. 71.
- ↑ a b Dittrich, p. 140.
- ↑ Dittrich, p. 135.
- ↑ Dittrich, p. 174.
- ↑ Dittrich, p. 181
- ↑ Dittrich, pp. 71-73.
- ↑ Dittrich, p. 148.
- ↑ Müllerbrunnen on dresdner-stadtteile.de
- ↑ Traffic counts at F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz ( memento of the original from August 9, 2016 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.
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 46.7 " N , 13 ° 42 ′ 24.2" E