Hotel de France (Dresden)

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Dresden, Wilsdruffer Strasse No. 15, facade (detail)

The Hôtel de France in Dresden was located at Wilsdruffer Strasse 15. The baroque secular building was probably built around 1680 and destroyed in 1945.

One half of the house was designed with a two-storey bay window , with Ionic pilasters below and Corinthian pilasters above . The pilasters, parapets, and cranked cornices were adorned with grimaces , angel heads , cartouches, and hangers . On the cartouche of the upper parapet was a monogram made up of the following intertwined letters: GDFS. Presumably the council and tax accountant Gottfried Schmidt was meant. The bay window was designed with "figurative and vegetal forms of jewelry from Klengel in a very strong, swirling and juicy conception".

The other half showed a facade that was originally decorated with frescoes or sgraffiti and was a replica of Italian palaces. The corners were divided by square strips. The roofing of the top row of windows was designed as a split gable with busts in between.

Art historical significance

The houses at Wilsdruffer Strasse 15 and Landhausstrasse 13 were the only two Dresden town houses that used Italian-influenced forms of suspicion before the beginning of the 18th century. The facades of both houses were clearly influenced by the palace in the Great Garden . Fritz Löffler attributes the building to Johann Georg Starcke .

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  • Wilsdruffer Strasse No. 15, facade

  • Wilsdruffer Strasse No. 15, bay window.

  • Wilsdruffer Strasse No. 15, bay window (photography around 1900).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt : Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Volume 23: City of Dresden, Part 2 . In commission from CC Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1903, pp. 647, 666–668.
  2. ^ Stefan Hertzig : The Dresden community center in the time of Augustus the Strong. Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-9807739-0-6 , p. 250.
  3. ^ Stefan Hertzig: The Dresden community center in the time of Augustus the Strong. Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-9807739-0-6 , Fig. 223 on p. 249.
  4. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. Volume 23: City of Dresden, Part 2 . In Commission at CC Meinhold & Sons, Dresden 1903, p. 674.
  5. ^ Stefan Hertzig: The Dresden community center in the time of Augustus the Strong. Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-9807739-0-6 , p. 253.
  6. ^ Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden. History of his buildings. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 , p. 81.