Hotel de Saxe (Dresden)
The Hôtel de Saxe was a noble hostel in the inner old town of Dresden on Neumarkt , which already existed in the 18th century.
location
The Dresden “Hôtel de Saxe” should not be confused with the hotels of the same name in Berlin , Hamburg and Leipzig at the time . The now reconstructed “Hôtel de Saxe” is located at the corner of Neumarkt and Moritzstrasse.
history
Count Wilhelm Kinsky von Wchinitz and Tettau acquired a house in 1628 in Dresden's Moritzstrasse (later Palais de Saxe). It burned down in 1648. The Neumarkt district of Dresden around the Frauenkirche had gained in importance at the beginning of the 18th century due to the brisk building activity of the nobility, into which the history of this noble hostel extends. Even then, there was a hotel in the corner building at Neumarkt / Moritzstrasse. In the Seven Years' War the building from 1709 was destroyed and it was Samuel Adam, the son of the court mason Andreas Adam , who was involved in the restoration of the already existing hotel in 1764.
The Prussian Commerce Councilor Johann Heinrich Gerstkamp (1802–1866) came from Huckarde and first took over the management of a large hotel in Leipzig, then the “Hotel de Saxe” in the Saxon capital of Dresden . In 1834/1835 he merged the building on Neumarkt with other neighboring houses and made the hotel the first building on the square. In a foreign country Gerstkamp became a hotelier of the first order.
The three former houses were given a uniform facade. The building complex had three upper floors , a mezzanine and a combined mansard roof . Inside, a spacious concert and ballroom was built in, where the noble Dresden bourgeois families met. A wide balcony with a forged iron grille was placed in front of the first floor as an exit.
The "Hôtel de Saxe" was mostly frequented by wealthy hotel guests. The Dresden society also met here for ball nights or chamber music evenings . The Lauterbach Quartet of the Royal Saxon Court Orchestra played , the Florentine String Quartet and the violinist Camillo Sivori were guests . The pianist Mary Krebs-Brenning had her first concert here in 1863. In October 1870 the pianist Sara Heinze gave concerts with Johann Christoph Lauterbach and the cellist Friedrich Grützmacher in the hotel.
The hoteliers failed to adapt the hotel to the increased contemporary demands and to modernize the house. In 1888, the hotel was closed and the building was demolished and replaced by a stately residential and commercial building, which dominated the square with a neo-baroque sandstone facade. The “Palais de Saxe”, as the building that reached far into Moritzstrasse was now called, housed a wine bar, various shops and restaurants as well as the Wilhelminian post on Moritzstrasse . The ensemble of buildings was destroyed in the Second World War in 1945.
After 1888, a business-oriented hotelier used the name of the house to carry on the noble tradition in a new building on Johann-Georgen-Allee (today Lingnerallee).
After 1945
After the war ruins of the successor building were demolished, the area remained undeveloped and was used to store the stones of the Frauenkirche from the beginning of the 1990s. In the course of the restoration of the church and the redesign of the old Neumarkt, a six-storey hotel complex with shops was created. In the Neumarkt design statutes, the hotel was not intended to be rebuilt. In order to regain the characteristic view of the square from the 19th century, the investor decided in 2003 to equip the new hotel building on the 2013 m² site between Landhausstrasse and Moritzstrasse with the facade of the “Hôtel de Saxe”, which was demolished in 1888. “While it presents itself to the Neumarkt in a replica of a historical condition, contemporary facades are also erected on the sides. The Hotel de Saxe and the 'Salomonis-apotheke' building were reconstructed not in the floor plan, but in the facade. "
Today's hotel, which can be found on the square under its historical name, is currently operated by the Steigenberger Group .
In 2006, a simplified replica of the Meißner letter stone , the so-called Luther stone , was integrated into the facade of the Hôtel de Saxe on Dresden's Neumarkt .
literature
- Matthias Donath: The Dresden Neumarkt. Edition Sächsische Zeitung 2006, ISBN 3-938325-26-7
- Kathleen Biermann : Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe Dresden (5 min), image film
Web links
- Hôtel de Saxe , from dresden.stadtwiki.de, accessed on August 1, 2015
- Dresden & Saxony regional studies: Neumarkt , on dresden-und-sachsen.de
Individual evidence
- ^ German Loss of Cultural Property Center, lid portal. accessed on March 20, 2018
- ^ Martin Bernhard Lindau: History of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden. 2nd improved edition, Dresden 1885, p. 479
- ^ Owner of the "Hôtel de Saxe" in Dresden, Johann Heinrich Gerstkamp , entry for hunting lease 1848
- ↑ These eight Huckarders made history | Westfalenpost.de
- ↑ Lexical article: Sara Magnus-Heinze ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ "Hôtel de Saxe" Quartier IV ( Memento des Originals from September 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at neumarkt-dresden.de, accessed on August 1, 2014
