Chamber of Commerce (Dresden)
The building of the Chamber of Commerce at Grunaer Straße 50 was the administrative building of the Chamber of Commerce of the District Headquarters Dresden until it was destroyed in February 1945 .
Prehistory and construction
The reason for the construction of the new administration building was that the rooms rented by the Chamber of Commerce were no longer sufficient. On the one hand, the number of independent craft and small business or retail businesses in the chamber district of the Dresden district team had risen to over 50,000; on the other hand, there was a sharp increase in journeyman and master craftsman examinations as a result of a new law.
As a result, the number of civil servants increased considerably, traffic with traders increased sharply and there was a lack of suitable meeting and examination rooms for taking the journeyman's and master's examinations. There was therefore a considerable need for a separate building for the largest of the Saxon chambers of commerce.
In the years 1915 to 1917, the new building of the trade chamber in the form of the Dresden Baroque style was planned and built by the Dresden architect, building officer Richard Schleinitz . After his unexpected death in May 1916, his partner, the court carpenter Ernst Noack (Schleinitz & Noack), took over the work. The result was a representative main building about 25 meters wide and 15 meters deep with seven window axes to Grunaer Strasse and three axes on the narrow sides. The building consisted of a basement, ground floor and first floor and was crowned by a moderately steep roof with six dormers. At right angles to this, there was a wing structure measuring around 22 × 17 meters with a protruding staircase.
Most of the halls were decorated with stucco, only the small hall had a wooden ceiling and paneling . Wall paneling also adorned the consultation room, which was decorated with the colored coats of arms of the cities in the chamber district. The large window of the consultation room and the stairwell were adorned with magnificent glass paintings, and well-known artists had donated oil paintings to decorate the building.
Within the two lawns on both sides of the main entrance on Grunaer Straße, two fountain bowls made of local sandstone , gifts from the city of Dresden , were set up to enhance the overall artistic effect of the coats of arms of the 34 cities in the chamber district, symbols of handicrafts and trade as well as sayings and rich artistic jewelry to enliven and adorn the highlighted main view.
The total cost of the building was 283,000 marks, of which 63,000 marks were for the interior fittings. With a room volume of 11,388 cubic meters, the building has a unit price of only 7 marks for 1 m³ of enclosed space, a brilliant achievement considering the wartime execution and the valuable furnishings.
use
On the ground Vorderbaues the rooms was Counsel with abutting library and the conference room for the board with associated areas. Above, on the first floor, the two large halls with consultation rooms, separated by a roller blind, were arranged. In the wing building on Albrechtstrasse, the office was on the ground floor and the meeting rooms on the upper floor.
The basement of the front building contained the archive, which was connected to the chancellery on the ground floor by a side staircase. A file elevator connected the archive and the office to the upper floor. In the wing of the basement there was the househusband's apartment, next to it the rooms of the collective heating system, a bicycle room and a clothes rack for the officers.
Almost all of the rooms in the house were connected to one another by telephones, in the most frequently used rooms there were electrical clocks, sufficient air supply and ventilation were ensured, in particular fresh, cleaned and preheated air was available in the halls and the consultation room through a specially created system are fed.
destruction
Like the entire area in which the Chamber of Commerce building, erected in 1909/1910, was located, the Chamber of Commerce building was destroyed in February 1945 . The ruins were torn down in the first few years after the war, although the area itself initially remained fallow. It was not until 1968 to 1970 that the fifteen-story residential buildings that still exist today were built on this site .
literature
- Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, Volume 39, Issue No. 5, Berlin January 11, 1919, pp. 25ff
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Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 49.15 " N , 13 ° 45 ′ 4.25" E