Altmarkt House (Dresden)

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Altmarkt house, facade to the Altmarkt. Left the Wilsdruffer street .

The House Market Square is a listed front building with arcades education in the Wilsdruffer Straße 19-21 in the north-east corner of the Old Market in Dresden . It is part of the building complex Altmarkt 4–6 / Wilsdruffer Straße 15–21 . Together with its "sister building" - the Centrum Warenhaus on the north / west corner of the square opposite - it forms the framework for the view from the Altmarkt to the Kulturpalast .

history

The building was built by Herbert Schneider from 1953 to 1956 in the style of socialist classicism with its historicizing , neo-baroque echoes typical of Dresden . It is an example of “the elaborate, monumental, historicizing and definitely high-quality architecture of the first half of the 1950s in the GDR”.

In 1976 a renovation took place according to plans by Werner Hartig . Until 1990 the house housed the HO restaurant "Haus Altmarkt" with 748 seats. After 1990, this was initially used as a commercial property and also as a discotheque, until in 1994, when the exterior was again renovated, it was initially planned to be converted into office space, which turned out to be impossible, but a fast-service restaurant was set up on the ground floor.

Several other considerations for a new use failed due to the demanding requirements of the monument protection. From autumn 2013, the house was finally rebuilt for 14.5 million euros for "Berlinhaus Verwaltung GmbH", which then handed the complex over to "Star Inn" as the hotel operator in February 2015. The architect of this renovation was Ludger Kilian's Dresden architectural office .

Description of the structure

Portal of Haus Altmarkt with two groups of sculptures
In context: Altmarkt 4–6. In the background the town hall tower .
View from 1956

The west facade of the six-storey building facing the Altmarkt has been designed in a particularly elaborate manner. It is divided into seven axes, the middle of which is emphasized by a protruding, single-axis risalit and the main portal designed by Ernst Kremer . The latter is flanked by a pair of double columns of Corinthian order . These carry an architrave on which there is a cornice with a balcony, which has a wrought iron grille as a parapet . The balcony door is flanked by two groups of figures resting on pedestals , which were created by Otto Rost . The risalit shows twin windows on the upper floors . It ends in a blown gable .

The building's ground floor is enclosed by arcades on the west and north sides. Together with the first floor, it optically forms a base clad with Posta sandstone . Most of the floors above are plastered and visually combined with pilaster strips in a colossal order . They are structured by balustrades and window reveals made of Elbe sandstone . Forged window grilles on the second and third floors enrich the artistic decoration of the facade.

Interior

In addition to a dance café with around 500 seats and a gallery with a view of the dance floor on the one hand and the Altmarkt on the other, as well as a daytime café, the "Haus Altmarkt" accommodated apartments on the upper floors. The public areas were lavishly designed and contained various artistic jewelry, including a. several representative chandeliers in the foyer, as well as in the dance hall. Although the public areas looked spacious, the interior was built very sparingly. For example, the "Menzel L" ceilings between the apartments that were drawn in in the 1950s were statically planned in such a way that they could just bear the usage and building loads of the time.

During the renovation in 2013–2015, key areas had to be restructured, apartment corridors were expanded into corridors, and the elevators that previously only went to certain floors were restructured. There z. Partly because of the static problems, no further walls are drawn in. The former large hall on the upper floor was divided into conference rooms, the gallery is provided for the accompanying uses. Relics from the early 1950s, such as B. double sliding doors in the former living areas could be retained. The three chandeliers in the foyer were built by the same company from the Ore Mountains that made the original chandeliers in the 1950s.

literature

  • Holger Gantz: 100 buildings in Dresden: A guide to buildings of historical and architectural importance . Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-7954-1111-4 .
  • Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra and Martin Wörner (eds.): Architecture guide Dresden . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 .
  • Walter May, Werner Pampel and Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979.
  • Herbert Schneider: Chronicle of the building activity. Dresden: Altmarkt, east side. In: Deutsche Architektur, Issue 3, year 1954, p. 128f.

Web links

Commons : Haus Altmarkt (Dresden)  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gantz, p. 12f, No. 10 (Wilsdruffer Strasse, Wilsdruffer Strasse 12–22, architects: Herbert Schneider, Hans Konrad and Gerhard Müller, Lorena Johne, construction period: 1959 to 1960).
    May et al., P. 22 image no. 6 (1), see also Deutsche Architektur 3/54, 12/55.
  2. ↑ a b Lupfer u. a., image no. 12 ( Altmarkt , 1953–1956, Herbert Schneider, Johannes Rascher).
  3. ^ Bettina Klemm: Viennese coffee house on the Altmarkt . In: Saxon newspaper . March 13, 2015 ( paid online [accessed April 24, 2018]).
  4. ↑ a b Heiko Weckbrodt: Architecture Day: Architecture before the time judge . June 22, 2015 ( online [accessed April 24, 2018]).
  5. ↑ May et al., P. 22 image no. 6 (1), see also Deutsche Architektur 3/54, 12/55.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '0.2 "  N , 13 ° 44' 21.1"  E