District Court at Münchner Platz (Dresden)
The building complex of the regional court on Münchner Platz in Dresden is an example of the monumental style within Dresden's reform architecture. Today it is part of the TU Dresden campus (Georg-Schumann-Bau, Hülsse-Bau and Tillich-Bau) and houses the Münchner Platz Dresden Memorial .
history
In 1907 the move to the new Royal Saxon District Court building on Münchner Platz, which was rebuilt from 1902 according to plans by Oskar Kramer. Even during the Weimar Republic and National Socialism, as well as in the early days of the GDR, the building with its notorious detention center remained the seat of the Dresden Regional Court. This building on the outskirts of the Südvorstadt was also damaged by Allied bombs in 1945, but was by no means destroyed.
The District Court of Dresden replaced the abolished Regional Court in 1952 and had its seat on Münchner Platz until 1956. It then moved to the former district court building on Lothringer Strasse. In today's Münchner Platz Dresden memorial , six death cells from the former Dresden main detention center, which is attached to the regional court, have been left unchanged. Today they house a small exhibition on the history of the regional court. The building has been used by the TU Dresden since 1964 and is now the Georg Schumann Building of the TU Dresden (Münchner Platz 3, Faculty of Economics and Mechanical Engineering), named after the resistance fighter Georg Schumann . The cross-shaped cell structure is the Hülsse-Bau (Helmholtzstrasse 10, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Economics), named after Julius Ambrosius Hülße , the second director of the TU's forerunner "Technische Bildungsanstalt". The northeast corner of the complex with the former chapel is the Tillich building (Helmholtzstrasse 6/8, Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarian Research ), named after the theologian Paul Tillich , who worked at the TH Dresden from 1925 to 1929.
description
The building was built by Oskar Kramer from 1902 to 1907 . It is "not a building of Art Nouveau , more of the material style, like monumental art [as variants of reform architecture ... and belongs] to the" new conception of building "..."
When building in the style of reform architecture, Kramer combined " historicizing motifs freely associating, but different from the strictly historicizing architecture ". He used predominantly neo-Romanesque motifs and a few art nouveau elements in a free associative manner. He also used historical motifs such as a castle with a defense tower and fortress , high dominant roofs , many different window shapes, sandstone and plastered surfaces in the construction. The architect used these structures in a monumental way that shaped the cityscape .
See also
- District Court Dresden - for an overview of the various locations of the District Court
- Münchner Platz Dresden Memorial - with a historical aspect
- District Court at Sachsenplatz (Dresden) - for the building description
literature
- Ulrich Hübner et al .: Symbol and truthfulness. Reform architecture in Dresden . Husum. Verlag der Kunst Dresden, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-86530-068-5 .
- Volker Helas , Gudrun Peltz: Art Nouveau architecture in Dresden . KNOP Verlag for Architecture - Photography - Art, Dresden 1999, ISBN 3-934363-00-8 .
- Christa Herkt: The former Dresden district court on Münchner Platz: facts and thoughts . Association for Democracy and Resistance Research, Dresden 1995.
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ dresdner-stadtteile.de
- ↑ a b Helas / Peltz, p. 26, image no. 22nd
- ↑ Hübner et al., P. 14
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 46 ″ N , 13 ° 43 ′ 20 ″ E