Gewandhaus (Bautzen)

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The main market and the Gewandhaus (left)

The Gewandhaus , in Upper Sorbian Kupnica , is a historic building on the south side of the main market in Bautzen . It is located directly opposite the Bautzen town hall . In front of the house is the market fountain with the knight Dutschmann .

history

The Gewandhaus before fire and renovation (around 1954)

In the 13th century, the trade in Bautzen was so great that the privilege of building a department store was sought. This was granted in 1284 and the first department store in Upper Lusatia was built. 200 years later, the further boom in trade required the construction of a larger department store with council scales and a wine cellar on Inner Lauenstrasse (construction period 1472 to 1482). During the great city fire of 1634, the Gewandhaus also fell victim to the flames. The city's plight due to the Thirty Years' War did not allow reconstruction until 1666/1667. It was not until 1682 that the vaulting of the wine cellar could be restored. In 1709 the house was destroyed again by a city fire, but was rebuilt in 1710. In 1881 the building - with the exception of the Ratskeller - was demolished and rebuilt in neo-renaissance style from 1882 to 1883 according to plans by the Dresden architects Ernst Giese and Paul Weidner . This is how it got its present form. The late Gothic council cellar has been preserved under the new building; its star vault rests on a single granite octagonal central pillar.

After a fire in 1976, parts of the building had to be renewed. At the fire on 27./28. In October of the same year the historical painting “Bautzen's citizens successfully put down a Hussite attack in 1429” also fell victim to the flames. The work of art that adorned the citizens' hall of the Gewandhaus until the catastrophe was created by Dresden artist Georg Schwenk (1863–1936) around 1925. The current gable comes from this renovation. Parts of the city administration, including the registry office, and a restaurant are located in the building.

literature

  • Cornelius Gurlitt : The old Gewandhaus. In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 33. Booklet: Bautzen (city) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1909, pp. 221-225.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handbook of German Art Monuments : Saxony. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1965.

Web links

Commons : Gewandhaus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 51.7 "  N , 14 ° 25 ′ 26.5"  E