Gewandhaus (Dresden)

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View from the southeast of the Gewandhaus
The Dresden city coat of arms with the Meißner lion and the Landsberg stakes emblazoned above the portal of the New Gewandhaus .

The Gewandhaus is a baroque building in the city center of Dresden . Erected between 1768 and 1770 as a Gewandhaus , it has served as a hotel since 1967 .

Location

The Gewandhaus is located in the southeastern inner city of Dresden. It is enclosed by Gewandhausstrasse, Kreuzstrasse and Ringstrasse. Neighboring to the southwest is the New Town Hall . The Pirnaische Platz , the Kreuzkirche and the Weißes Gasse bar district are in the vicinity .

history

Former Dresden garment houses

Before the construction of today's Gewandhaus, there were already several buildings in Dresden, also known as Gewandhaus. The oldest known Gewandhaus stood on the north side of the Altmarkt and was first mentioned in 1295. It was a simple, two-story building in which fabrics and cloth goods were traded, from which the name of the building derives. Later on, meat, bread and shoes were also sold there and council business was done. Around 1453, in Dresden, which was not inhabited by Jews at the time, the old synagogue at Jüdenhof was converted into a second Gewandhaus for fair days.

The third Gewandhaus, also known as the Altes Gewandhaus, was built on the open space on Neumarkt , between Jüdenhof and Frauengasse, which was created when the Dresden fortifications were relocated . Fortress builder Paul Buchner designed this Renaissance building, which was implemented under Elector Christian from 1591 and was completed a year later. It was designed with wide arched portals. The meat shops and stalls for the shoemakers were located on the ground floor . The upper floor housed rooms for the cloth trade and a large hall in which festive events, theatrical performances and meetings were also held. In 1760 the Gewandhaus also suffered from destruction by the Prussian Army during the Seven Years' War . Due to its urban development effect, which was now perceived as unfavorable, it was demolished in 1791. At its previous location, the Neumarkt-Quartier VI opposite the Frauenkirche , the city of Dresden was planning a new building under the name Gewandhaus, but the city council decided in April 2008 to suspend the project for at least 10 years. After the toilet campaign in 2009 on Postplatz , which led to a change of opinion regarding the greening of the inner city, the square will most likely remain undeveloped.

Today's Gewandhaus

The Dinglinger Fountain has been on the west facade of the building since 1966.

Today's fourth Gewandhaus is also known as the New Gewandhaus. It was built from 1768 to 1770 by Johann George Schmidt and Johann Friedrich Knöbel in a mixture of styles from Rococo and Early Classicism and is considered a late work of the Dresden Baroque . It is one of the few buildings in the Saxon state capital from the time immediately after the Seven Years' War. The facades of the simple, three-storey building are divided by subtle pilaster strips . The even rows of windows continue upwards in the mansard roof . There are large arched windows on the ground floor . The two upper floors of the main front on the east side are clearly structured in five three-axis parts, with the middle and the two outer projections emerging as risalits. The central projection is emphasized by a triangular gable with an oval window and the city coat of arms above the entrance portal.

This building also housed tailors and butchers with their stalls and a theater hall. After that, the Gewandhaus served as a warehouse. Around 1925, City Planning Officer Paul Wolf converted it for the Dresden City Bank . It remained in this use until the devastating air raids on Dresden in February 1945 caused the centrally located building to burn to ruins. In the years 1956/1958 at least the facade could be secured. The external reconstruction took place in historical form between 1964 and 1966. In 1966 the Dinglingerbrunnen was attached to the west facade of the house . It comes from the Dinglingerhaus at Frauengasse 9 near Neumarkt (Quartier VI), where the court jeweler Johann Melchior Dinglinger lived.

Inside, the “Hotel am Gewandhaus” opened in January 1967. It had to close after the fall of the Wall . The Gewandhaus has been privately owned since 1992, and the renovation work started at that time was discontinued in 1994 for financial reasons. From 1996, after another change of ownership, the interior of the building was comprehensively modernized for an investment of 12 million DM. After its reopening in September 1997, the Radisson SAS group operated the Gewandhaushotel Dresden as an upscale hotel. Since 2009 the hotel has been officially known as the Radisson Blu Gewandhaus Hotel. As of December 31, 2014, the hotel was closed and extensively renovated. On April 2, 2015, the hotel was reopened as a five-star hotel by Seaside Hotels .

Web links

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

literature

  • Kurt Haller: "Hotel Gewandhaus", in: Deutsche Architektur Heft 4, year 1968, p. 226f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gewandhaus problem until 2008. (No longer available online.) Gesellschaft Historischer Neumarkt Dresden , archived from the original on September 29, 2013 ; Retrieved December 2, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Open space design on the area of ​​the former Gewandhaus. (No longer available online.) Gesellschaft Historischer Neumarkt Dresden, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; Retrieved December 2, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Reopening of the Gewandhaus Hotel . In: Dresdner Latest News , September 6, 1997, p. 17.
  4. ↑ Susanne Stauß: Seaside is growing in Germany - Allgemeine Hotel- und Gastronomie-Zeitung. In: ahgz.de. January 9, 2015, accessed August 8, 2017 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 54.8 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 30.8 ″  E