Georg-Treu-Platz
The Georg-Treu-Platz is a place in Dresden . It is located in the northeast of the inner old town in the city center of the Saxon state capital. The square was named after the archaeologist Georg Treu .
location
The square is located in the district of Altstadt I in the historic city center and thus belongs to the statistical district of Innere Altstadt in the district of Altstadt . It extends over the 0.3 hectare area of an irregular square - approximately in the shape of a trapezoid - from the Salzgasse in the south that touches it and the neighboring square An der Frauenkirche in the west to the Brühlsche Terrasse in the northeast. Georg-Treu-Platz fulfills a connection function between the Neumarkt area and the Brühlsche Terrasse.
layout
The center of the square, which is owned by the Free State of Saxony, is an approximately 20 × 40 meter large lawn with two trees at the southwest end. Between these stands, accessible via a small, granite-paved path, Wieland Förster's sculpture Great Mourning Man , a seated, huddled bronze figure with the inscription "Dresden warns" hiding its head. A footpath runs around the green area; from the direction of Tzschirnerplatz there is also a road in the direction of An der Frauenkirche over the southwest of the square. There are several historical street lamps in the square . An essential design element of this urban jewelery square is the magnificent open staircase to the Brühl Terrace. First, an eight-stage runs flight of stairs up to a landing . There the staircase splits and leads upwards in two quarter circles with 26 steps each. It symmetrically borders the area on which the Gottfried Semper monument stands, but which has its back to Georg-Treu-Platz. The square with its planting and the staircase are listed as part of the Brühl Terrace as a whole, cf. List of monument conservation issues in Dresden #Parks and squares .
Development
Georg-Treu-Platz is surrounded by four buildings: in the south-west the Palais am Georg-Treu-Platz , in the south-east the Albertinum , in the north-east the Brühlsche Terrasse and in the north-west the art academy , more precisely: the exhibition building or the art gallery wing of the Lipsius building . The former is a relatively young office and commercial building , the other three buildings are under monument protection (see list of cultural monuments in Old Town I ).
The palace on Georg-Treu-Platz , also known as the Neues Palais , has house number 3 and was built between 1998 and 2000 in connection with the reconstruction of the late-baroque Coselpalais immediately adjacent to it , which was destroyed in the air raids on Dresden in February 1945. The façade of the building, which has a slightly rounded floor plan towards Georg-Treu-Platz, was given a striking, turquoise-colored structure made of a square pattern. After an objection from the preservationists, the building turned out to be one floor lower than initially planned.
The Albertinum dates back to a Renaissance building from the 16th century, which was redesigned into a museum building for the Dresden sculpture collection by 1889 according to plans by Adolph Canzler . After the renovation, the building was named in honor of the then reigning King Albert of Saxony and has also been the seat of the New Masters Gallery of the Dresden State Art Collections since 1965 . Since the renovation of the Albertinum was completed in 2010, one of the two main entrances to the building has been located at Georg-Treu-Platz.
The Brühl Terrace is a remnant of the Dresden fortifications built in the 16th century on the banks of the terrace . In the 18th century, by order of its namesake Heinrich von Brühl, the Brühlschen glories , magnificent baroque buildings that had to give way to other buildings at the end of the 19th century, were built on it. Today the Brühlsche Terrasse is the location of a listed building ensemble and the remains of the Brühlsche Garten . Inside, in the area of the Maiden Bastion , is the Dresden Fortress Museum , the entrance of which is under the left flight of stairs on Georg-Treu-Platz. Among other things, the brick gate, Dresden's only preserved city gate, can be seen in the museum.
The art academy was built from 1887 to 1894 according to plans by Constantin Lipsius, mainly for the predecessor of the Dresden University of Fine Arts of the same name , which is still located in the building with its lavish facade decorations. In addition, a smaller part of the Lipsius Building, as the complex is officially called after its architect, serves as an exhibition area. This area - the art gallery in the Lipsius-Bau and the wing crowned by the glass dome known colloquially as the lemon press - is directly adjacent to Georg-Treu-Platz.
history
The northeast of the inner old town was a walled restricted area inaccessible to the public until the 19th century. Among other things, the strictly secured mint of Dresden and the Dresden armory were located here . In the middle of the 18th century the area of the later Georg-Treu-Platz was called (electoral) Zeug-Hoff . It was surrounded in the southeast by the armory, in the south by the main salt house with the salt floors as the central salt store for the entire electorate, in the north by the stuff forge and the piece foundry, also known as the casting house, for the manufacture of guns, and in the west by the Zimmerhütte and the Roßmühle, one by horse- drawn peg powered grinding mill to supply the garrison with flour.
Behind the Zimmerhütte, in the direction of the coin, was the Zimmerhof , which is now built over by the Art Academy and named after the workshops around it for the manufacture and repair of military equipment and accessories. Not far to the south-west, the Caesar and Knoeffel House was built in the middle of the 18th century in place of the previously demolished powder tower.
In a detailed city map from the 1860s, this entire area is shown as the armory yard . The area therefore initially served military purposes even after the middle of the 19th century. The Brühlsche Terrasse, on which the Café Reale was located, was opened to the public in 1814. In the mid-1880s the picture changed in this part of the city center. The armory was converted into the Albertinum Museum, the mint was demolished in 1887 and the art academy was built in its place.
An urban space remained between the Albertinum and the art academy , which was still being designed during the construction of the art academy. In 1890, according to plans by Constantin Lipsius, the outside staircase to the Brühl Terrace was built, at the top of which two years later Johannes Schilling's Semper monument was erected. The square, initially officially unmarked for decades, was finally given its current name in memory of the classical archaeologist Georg Treu (1843–1921). Treu has a connection to the two old neighboring buildings on the square named after him: from 1882 to 1915 he headed the sculpture collection in the Albertinum, at the same time he was a professor at the Dresden Art Academy.
The 1979 sculpture designed Big grieving husband of Wieland Förster was set up on 6 February 1985 at the course of an exhibition on the destroyed Dresden on the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the city on the Georg-Treu-Platz. It commemorates the suffering of the victims of the air raids and was consciously given this location: On the night of February 13-14, 1945, Church Inspector Hermann Weinert led the survivors of an attack from the catacombs of the Frauenkirche through the steps on Georg-Treu-Platz through the burning old town into the open.
After the fall of the Wall , Georg-Treu-Platz served as a space for construction site equipment for over a decade - initially for the renovation work at the Art Academy, then at the Albertinum. For this purpose, the green area was temporarily paved and used as a parking lot. Because of the construction work on the neighboring buildings, Förster's sculpture was also removed in 1992, three years later it was placed in front of the west wing of the residential palace and later moved to the Zwinger .
During the renovation of the Brühlsche Terrasse at the end of the 1990s, the outside staircase at Georg-Treu-Platz was also renewed. The square itself was not redesigned until 2010, when work on the Albertinum was completed and its new entrance was set up on Georg-Treu-Platz. Since June 2010, after a public controversy, Förster's sculpture has been back in its original location on Georg-Treu-Platz.
literature
- Karlheinz Kregelin: The name book of the streets and places in the 26er Ring , Fly Head Verlag, Halle 1993, ISBN 978-3-930195-01-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ denkmalprojekt.org: Great grieving man . Retrieved March 7, 2013.
- ↑ rehwaldt.de: Georg-Treu-Platz Dresden . Retrieved March 7, 2013.
- ↑ architektur-bildarchiv.de: Georg-Treu-Platz 3 office building . Retrieved September 15, 2019.
- ↑ Annette Binninger: Something is happening around the Frauenkirche: A spirit of optimism is now also on Neumarkt. In: Dresdner Latest News , May 28, 1999, p. 9.
- ↑ competitionline.com: Open-air facility design at Georg-Treu-Platz . Retrieved March 7, 2013.
- ^ Karl Wilhelm Daßdorf : Description of the most excellent peculiarities of the electoral residence city of Dresden and some surrounding areas. Dresden 1782, p. 92 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Förster's "Großer mourernder Mann" back on Georg-Treu-Platz. State capital Dresden, June 17, 2010, accessed on September 15, 2019 (press release).
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 9 ″ N , 13 ° 44 ′ 37 ″ E