Building of the former water management department Obere Elbe-Neisse

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Building of the former water management department Obere Elbe-Neisse

The building of the former water management department Obere Elbe-Neisse is located at Ostra-Allee 23 in Dresden . Today the Dresden II branch of the Saxon real estate and construction management and a training center of the Dresden Park Railway are located here .

history

The history of water management in the GDR is characterized by an increasing concentration over the years. On July 1, 1958, the central office for water management in Berlin was established, which initially had seven water management departments (WWD) under the responsibility of managing surface rivers and based on the criteria of the river's catchment areas. One of these was WWD IV (Obere Elbe - Mulde), for which this building was built and which in turn replaced the " VEB (Z) Wasserwirtschaft Obere Elbe - Mulde".

In 1972 the Ministry for Environment and Water Management was formed, in the course of which the water management departments were further centralized and formed from seven five: The water management department Obere Elbe - Mulde became WWD V as "Water Management Department Obere Elbe - Neisse" in 1975 and was also central for the coordination with the then Czechoslovakia responsible (the coordination with Poland was incumbent on WWD II Oder / Havel). WWD V was dissolved on September 30, 1991.

Description of the building

The entire area of ​​the western Ostra-Allee was cleared extensively during the clearing of large areas in the early and mid-1950s. Instead of the roadside development that was typical there before the destruction, a new topos was developed on an extensive wasteland:

"... the ensemble of VEB Wasserwirtschaft [had] ... abandoned the concept of the compact European traditional city - in favor of a set-back, differentiated structure with a flat dining room in a modern form."

The ensemble of the two-wing complex was built from 1958 to 1960 according to plans by the architects Peter Kluge and Karl-Heinz Brade. The two wings differ significantly in their construction:

The main building on the northeast side of the complex is a five-story structure with a hipped roof. The ground floor is clad with slab masonry made of Cotta sandstone , while the four floors above were made with a plastered sandstone facade in the style of Socialist Classicism . The construction was carried out in "mixed construction", prefabricated components were used to build the upper floors. The base area was equipped with a lining made of Lusatian granite to protect the structure from moisture damage.

The design of the two-storey side wing belonging to the main building is based on what was then a modern, functional architectural style. The floor plan of the upper floor is significantly larger than that of the ground floor, so that it protrudes over the ground floor on three sides. Only the northern side of the building is flush with the connecting structure to the opposite wing. While the ground floor is evenly divided by windows, the upper floor has a continuous glass facade, which is structured by steel window frames. A flat roof sloping slightly to the west forms the upper end.

The street-side part of the building was renovated in the 1990s, the rear part of the building has not been renovated and is currently neglected.

A free sculpture Human and Water by Karl Lüdecke was placed in front of the entrance.

use

From the end of 1990 the building was used by the Saxon State Ministry for the Environment and Regional Development , which later moved into the new ministry building in the government district on Wilhelm-Buck-Straße. The state enterprise of palaces, castles and gardens also used this building until it moved to Stauffenbergallee. Today the Saxon Real Estate and Construction Management has its Dresden branch II here. The Dresden Park Railway has its training facility in part of the former dining room, which is mainly used in the winter months.

literature

  • Walter May, Werner Pampel and Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Description of the archives on archiv.sachsen.de , accessed on May 2, 2018.
  2. ^ Henriette van der Wall, R. Andreas Kraemer: The water management in the GDR. Study on behalf of the Hans Böckler Foundation, January 1991, p. 47. online , accessed on May 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ http://www.das-neue-dresden.de/sz-hochhaus.html
  4. ↑ a b May et al., No. 21 (administration building of the water management department Obere Elbe-Mulde, Julian-Grimau-Allee 23.)
  5. ^ Building on ostmodern.org , accessed on May 2, 2018.
  6. ^ SIB website , accessed on May 2, 2018.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 19 ″  N , 13 ° 43 ′ 45 ″  E