Fontainenplatz

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Fontainenplatz, the roundabout with the group of figures Four Seasons , view from the south

The Fontaine place , the space-like extension to the roundabout in the Dr.-Schmincke-Allee , located in the district Serkowitz the Saxon town of Radebeul . From 1890 to 1892 Moritz Ziller , the older brother of the two Ziller brothers , laid it out as a decorative space, provided it with a fountain and decorated it with four life-size figures from the Ernst March company , the Four Seasons . The name has been used again since the 2000s, but is not officially dedicated as a street address.

description

Northwest: No. 21, spring 2013, group of figures freshly renovated
Northeast: No. 20, summer 2008, the well basin is still planted
Southwest: No. 19, winter 2009, freshly renovated well basin
Southeast: No. 18 ( Villa Lotti ), summer 2009 with the eponymous fountain

Approximately in the middle of Dr.-Schmincke-Allee between Meißner Strasse in the south and Nizzastrasse in the north, the street area widens and surrounds a small, oval area, the roundabout with a group of figures , which is considered a work of landscape and garden design . This oval green area in the middle of the street is raised and surrounded by a base made of syenite rubble. In the middle of the lawn is a round water basin with the fountain system. The water basin is surrounded by four life-size figures from the Ernst March pottery factory in Charlottenburg , representing the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. These are available on brick pedestals with Sandstone cover plates and mark about the four cardinal point Southwest, Northwest, Northeast and Southeast. The figures each look at the fountain. At the location of the elliptical focal points , corresponding to the north and the south, there are again two small trees.

The Four Seasons are designs by the Berlin sculptor Julius Franz from around 1865, which could be supplied with various insignia. So the spring (catalog model 70) was also available as Flora , the summer (catalog model 72) was based on Franz's original reaper with harvest wreath , which can still be seen in Sanssouci today. The fall was as winemaker or Mercury to have (Catalog Model 73), Franz here to Paris by Rudolf Schadow had taken as a model. The winter was as Vulcan or hunters to have the original model is the November in Park Sanssouci.

The square, a historic preservation material entity is as a cultural monument an "urban ensemble [...] of Villas passed and Rondell with figural group" on the sidewalk with avenue trees. Four villas with the addresses Dr.-Schmincke-Allee 18 ( Villa Lotti , south-east), Dr.-Schmincke-Allee 19 (south-west), Dr. -Schmincke-Allee 20 (north-east) and Dr.-Schmincke-Allee 21 (north-west). The two listed rental villas No. 19 and No. 21 were built by the Ziller brothers , the likewise listed villa with No. 20 was built by the construction company FW Eisold .

history

Fontainenplatz. Albertstrasse. Wood engraving from 1891. View to the north of the little built-up slopes of Lößnitz.
Kaiser Friedrich-Allee with Fontainenplatz. Hand-colored postcard from 1910. View of the southeast side (No. 18 [Villa Lotti] and 16 )
Fontainenplatz, panoramic photo from 1910. View of the east side (Nos. 20 and 18: physical and dietetic sanatorium for the heart, nervous, metabolic, alcoholic and people in need of relaxation )

The building regulations of the Lößnitz communities already stipulated that the "face" of the houses had to face the street, i.e. that the street views of the buildings including the front gardens, which were usually visible, were part of the public space. Moritz Ziller , the older of the two Ziller brothers, who was responsible for the business side of the company as well as for the design of the outdoor facilities, while his brother Gustav provided the designs and the building construction, therefore also attached importance to the high quality design of the front gardens have often already been handed over to customers. In addition, planned entrance situations such as the groups of figures at Sophienhof or intermediate spaces such as Zillerplatz in the middle of Zillerstraße and Fontainenplatz in the middle of Dr.-Schmincke-Allee north of Meißner Straße were created in the streets opened up by the Ziller brothers .

Fontainenplatz was built in 1890–1892 in Albertstrasse , which was opened up by the local master builders, the Ziller brothers, in 1876 and named after the then Saxon King Albert , from 1904 Kaiser Friedrich-Allee . Around the roundabout with figure group around Moritz Ziller Ziller created at his own expense of the brothers, aided by the construction company FW Eisold and landscaper Gustav Pietzsch, an oval course, passed around which four villas building sites. On the roundabout, a fountain basin with the eponymous "Fontaine" was created in a green area, which was fed and operated by the Zillerschen Wasserwerk in Lößnitzgrund in order to create a correspondingly improved environment with the bubbling water.

Moritz Ziller represented this idea not only in order to improve the marketability of the building sites and prefabricated villas offered by the company "Gebrüder Ziller". As the founding board member of the Beautification Association for the Lößnitz , he represented this form of urban planning for the entire region, supported by his club colleague Wilhelm Eisold , who supported him with the construction of Fontainenplatz. Eisold, in turn, later laid out the Radebeul-Ost forest park with the landscape gardener Pietzsch, who was also active on Fontainenplatz .

The four figures that Moritz Ziller set up around the basin he had already bought in 1880 as catalog goods from the Ernst March pottery factory . In 1890, when the construction of the roundabout began, Wilhelm Eisold built the villa on the northeastern building site for Eduard Rost from Leipzig. In the building that has since been expanded, as well as in No. 18, Dr. Georg Greif his physical and dietetic sanatorium for heart, nervous, metabolic, alcoholic and recreational patients . From 1892, the Ziller brothers built two rental villas on the two western building sites at their own expense , of which the northern one was rather simple, the southern one quite splendid. From 1948 onwards, this became the headquarters of Neumann Verlag . It is unclear whether No. 18 was built by Eisold or Ziller.

In Meinhold's plan, the Lössnitz with the localities in the area was called Albertplatz .

In 1945 the street was renamed Dr.-Schmincke-Allee, after Richard Schmincke (1875–1939), a KPD politician who had perished in Gestapo custody. After the Second World War, the fountain was also no longer operated and the system lay fallow. At some point the residents converted the fountain bowl into a flower planter.

After the four villas had already been renovated in the post-reunification period, the residents also turned their gaze to the surrounding area. So they spoke to the local association for monument preservation and new building in Radebeul, which in a project from 2008 to 2010, supported by the city administration of Radebeul and numerous sponsors, was able to expose the fountain basin and put it back into operation with new fountain technology and then renewed the outdoor planting. By agreement with the Lord Mayor Bert Wendsche , the city lets the eponymous fountain gush again, which reaches a height of around 4 m.

literature

  • Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
  • Markus Hansel; Thilo Hansel; Thomas Gerlach (epilogue): In the footsteps of the Ziller brothers in Radebeul . Architectural considerations. 1st edition. Notschriften Verlag, Radebeul 2008, ISBN 978-3-940200-22-8 .
  • Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 .
  • CC Meinhold & Sons (ed.): Meinhold's plan of the Lössnitz with the localities in the area . CC Meinhold & Söhne, Dresden (around 1903, scale 1: 12,500).
  • Four Seasons. In: Jörg-R. Oesen, Eberhard Grundmann: The most beautiful fountains in and around Dresden. Edition Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-938325-72-8 , p. 105.
  • Gudrun Täubert: Art in the public space of the city of Radebeul . In: Association for Monument Preservation and New Building Radebeul (ed.): Contributions to the urban culture of the city of Radebeul . Radebeul 2002 ( denkmalneuanradebeul.de - online presentation of the four seasons ).
  • Gudrun Täubert, Frank Andert: Fontainenplatz Dr.-Schmincke-Allee . In: Association for Monument Preservation and New Building Radebeul (Ed.): Schmuckplatz in Radebeul; yesterday and today (=  contributions to the urban culture of the city of Radebeul ). Radebeul 2010, p. 14-21 .

Web links

Commons : Fontainenplatz (Radebeul)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. a b Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 , p. 96 as well as enclosed card .
  2. ^ Publication: Art in Public Space (Four Seasons). Association for Monument Preservation and New Buildings, Radebeul, accessed on 23 July 2009 .
  3. ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 13 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been part of the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).
  4. a b Information board of the Association for Monument Preservation and New Buildings in Radebeul on the history of the square and its fountain.
  5. Four seasons. In: Jörg-R. Oesen, Eberhard Grundmann: The most beautiful fountains in and around Dresden. Edition Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-938325-72-8 , p. 105.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 20 "  N , 13 ° 40 ′ 5.6"  E