Gorbitz

This article covers the Gorbitz district of Dresden. For the desert of the same name in the urban area of ​​Leipzig see Gorbitz (desert) .

Gorbitz -south, -East and -Nord / Neu-Omsewitz district and statistical districts No. 95, 96 and 97 of Dresden
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Coordinates	51 ° 2 '44 "  N , 13 ° 40' 12"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '44 "  N , 13 ° 40' 12"  E.
height	130- 210  m above sea level. NN
surface	2.83 km²
Residents	20,708 (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density	7317 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	01169
prefix	0351
Website	www.dresden.de
structure
Borough	Cotta
Transport links
Highway
Federal road
tram	2, 6, 7
bus	70, 80, 333

Gorbitz is a district of Dresden in the Cotta district , in the west on the outskirts of Dresden. Gorbitz is the largest new development area in Dresden, but still much smaller than large estates such as Leipzig-Grünau or Halle-Neustadt .

location

Gorbitz lies on a hillside with a considerable difference in altitude between 213 and 130  m above sea level. NN . In the west it is bordered by Altfranken and Gompitz , in the north by Omsewitz , Leutewitz and Cotta . In the east, the districts of Wölfnitz , Naußlitz and Löbtau border , to the south the district of Roßthal and otherwise only the city of Freital .

traffic

The four-lane Coventrystraße ( B 173 ) runs through Gorbitz , which among other things acts as a feeder road to federal motorway 17 .

The largest depot of the Dresden tram is located in Gorbitz . Three tram lines open up Gorbitz (2 Kleinzschachwitz - Gorbitz; 6 Gorbitz - Niedersedlitz , 7 Weixdorf - Pennrich ). In addition, bus route 70 runs in the direction of Gompitz or Klotzsche, which is easily accessible from Altgorbitz. Other bus and train lines affect Gorbitz.

The regional bus route 333 of the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains regional traffic crosses Gorbitz on its way to Hetzdorf via Kesselsdorf and Wilsdruff .

Due to the slope and relative external location , Gorbitz is quite far from railway stops and stations . The closest accesses to the railway network are Dresden Central Station , the Freiberger Strasse stop and Dresden Mitte station .

Altgorbitz

"Hexenhaus" in the Niedergorbitz village center

The townscape of Altgorbitz is characterized by narrow streets with old buildings and is one of the historic village centers in Dresden. It is separated from the new Gorbitz development area by Kesselsdorfer Strasse and is thus south of the large estate .

Altgorbitz emerged from a Sorbian settlement. The village extends in the valley of the " Gorbitzbach ", which flows into the Weidigtbach in Gorbitz-Ost on the border with Cotta . The latter has been a tributary of the Weißeritz since its brook bed was moved in the 19th century . The village was divided into Ober- and Niedergorbitz, which formed two communities until they were incorporated into Dresden in 1921 . Since it became part of Dresden, only (old) Gorbitz has been spoken of.

Obergorbitz bears the typical round shape up to the present day , while Niedergorbitz is spread around the place called "Altgorbitz", but looks more like a street village due to its valley location .

The large settlement of Neu-Gorbitz

Gorbitz 1987

After the Second World War, there were also drastic changes in Gorbitz. As early as 1945, the first Dresden radio studio after the war was set up in the former Zum Reichsschmied restaurant on Kesselsdorfer Strasse . From this, the DEFA studio for animated films developed after 1955 . The former fields of the Kammergut fell under the land reform in 1946 and were worked from 1952 by the LPG "Einheit" (Niedergorbitz) and the LPG "Bergland" (Obergorbitz). The farm estates in the village were now mostly used commercially and were often significantly rebuilt. Nevertheless, some architectural monuments, especially on Uthmannstrasse, have been preserved to this day.

In 1979, by resolution of the Dresden City Council, preparations began for the construction of Dresden's largest new building area on the corridors of the former Gorbitz estate. The plans of the group of architects around Jörg Bösche, Udo Fehrmann and Wolfgang Henke envisaged a central central axis with a tram route, on which the public facilities should be concentrated. The residential buildings were staggered and arranged taking into account the hillside location in order to create favorable views of the Elbe Valley. On August 21, 1981, the foundation stone for the first construction phase or residential complex was laid at what would later become the Grüner Heinrich restaurant . The first newly built apartments were handed over to their future tenants at the beginning of 1982. Another milestone was the handover of the 100,000. Apartment built after 1945 in Dresden on July 19, 1984 on Wölfnitzer Ring 96.

The most visible and largest part of Gorbitz is therefore predominantly built up with prefabricated buildings that were built in the early 1980s. At the beginning of the 1990s around 38,000 people lived here, today there are significantly fewer. The net household income is well below average, but the social structure is mixed. In the upper layers, prefabricated buildings have now been demolished to a large extent (for example at the Schlehenstrasse stop) and heavily rebuilt (for example directly below the tram depot ).

Gorbitz 2012

Under the leadership of the architects Latz & Böttcher and Grohmann & Kilian , gaps and corners of existing buildings in Neu-Gorbitz were built over with modern buildings from 1995 to 1997, thereby upgrading the settlement. Latz and Böttcher built a glass house at Wölfnitzer Ring 2 in Neu-Gorbitz , which, with its three-dimensional design and the alternation of open and closed wall surfaces, is committed to classic modernism. The residential and office high-rise at Tanneberger Weg 44 in Neu-Gorbitz was built by Ludger Kilian as a seven- story cube with a recessed attic in the classic modern style.

In the herb settlement , individual entrances in long slab blocks were completely demolished, other entrances were reduced to three floors and the inside was rebuilt. The lower and middle layers were partially renovated, in 2005 the second construction phase was also demolished and the high school closed.

Gorbitz is divided into four construction phases (also called residential complexes).

• Construction phase one

Below Julius-Vahlteich-Straße.

• Construction phase two

Amalie-Dietrich-Platz (former place of construction workers) to Merianplatz (former place of railway workers) right and left of the tram tracks (Wölfnitzer Ring and Leutewitzer Ring).

• Phase three

Altgorbitzer Ring to Hirtenstrasse on the left hand side of the tram route

• Construction phase four

Right on Coventrystrasse to the Gorbitz tram station.

The fourth construction phase was not originally planned, but came about because the media capacities (water volume, power line capacity) allowed it. A fifth was considered, but never planned, as the media capacity was no longer sufficient.

On the 37th year of the laying of the foundation stone (August 21, 1981) on August 21, 2018, the Saxon State Minister for Art and Science Eva Maria Stange, the cultural mayor of Dresden Annekatrin Klepsch, the district chronicler Mathias Körner (deputy) was held at a public ceremony in the Gorbitz community center. SPD city district council) and Jörg Bösche (chief architect of Gorbitz from the city architect's office) announced the monument status of the first cultural monuments of Neu-Gorbitz. The basis for the monument status of the fairy tale fountain, the large mosaic "Fox and grapes" at the Club Passage, the bar "Gorbitzer Krug" (Höhenpromenade) as well as the adjoining Würfelhaus WBS 70 / 14.4 and the Gorbitz church were based on an eight-year initiative by Gorbitzer Mathias Körner, who had developed a monument concept for Neu-Gorbitz and applied for monument protection, for which he had developed a 500-page Gorbitz chronicle (Gorbitzer Höhenpromenade - Dresden's forgotten treasure, winterwork publishing house). In addition, he succeeded in finding and restoring the abstract act of “construction workers” ( Miroslav Klimes , 1986), which was supposed to be destroyed by a city council resolution in the early days of the fall of the Wall , but had been hidden by Dresdeners for decades.

Purchasing

The Sachsenforum and the Dresden-Karree (formerly Gorbitz-Center) are major shopping centers. The Sachsenforum is located on Merianplatz. The Dresden-Karree on Coventrystraße reopened on November 8, 2018 after a two-year renovation period with 12,000 square meters of retail space. The owner is Hirmer-Immobilien from Munich. The renovation cost 20 million euros. The main tenant is Kaufland on 2,800 square meters. In addition, Thalia, Rossmann, Takko, Woolworth, k + k Schuhcenter, the tobacco shop Tabak & Co, Optiker Apollo, a pharmacy, bakery Stölzel, butcher Richter and the Asian snack bar HQ Sushi & Wok open.

See also

• List of cultural monuments in Gorbitz

literature

Alphabetical

• Norbert Göller (Ed.): Gorbitz. From the history of a Dresden district. Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-930382-64-4 .
• Cornelius Gurlitt : Gorbitz. . In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 24. Issue: Amtshauptmannschaft Dresden-Altstadt (Land) . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1904, p. 42.
• Mathias Körner: Gorbitzer Höhenpromenade. Dresden's forgotten treasure. 2015, ISBN 978-3-86468-906-2 . ( Publisher Info. Wochenkurier cutout )
• Friedrich August Leßke : Contributions to the history and description of the villages Ober- and Niedergorbitz, Wölfnitz, Pennrich, Naußlitz and Neunimptsch. Self-published, Deuben 1896 (digitized version)
• Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra, Martin Wörner (eds.): Architecture guide Dresden. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 .

Web links

Commons : Gorbitz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Plate with a view Documentary about Gorbitz by Uta Hergert and Marcel Raabe
• Entry about Gorbitz on dresdner-stadtteile.de
• More information about the Gorbitzer Plattenbau
• Gorbitzer Citizens the Gorbitzer Citizens Initiative (GoBI)
• Historical newspaper publications about Gorbitz
• Gorbitz in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Gorbitz
2. ↑ Image of the plaque for the laying of the foundation stone ( Memento from September 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Image Wölfnitzer Ring 2
4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: residential and office high-rise at Tanneberger Weg 44: negative no. 11
5. ↑ Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra, Martin Woerner (ed.): Architectural Guide Dresden. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, No. 125 (corner buildings, Wölfnitzer Ring 2 / Tanneberger Weg 44)
6. ↑ on the residential and office high-rise at Tanneberger Weg 44 in Dresden-Gorbitz by Kilian an article by Torsten Birne from September 22, 2001 in the Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden : residential and office high-rise, Dresden-Gorbitz "Strong colors instead of rustling pastels"