House Rampische Strasse 19

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Rampische Strasse No. 19 (around 1900)
Facade detail (2013)

The house at Rampische Strasse 19 in Dresden is a baroque residential building that was built in 1727 for the art and wallpaper painter Simon Mühlberg. The house was destroyed in the bombing of Dresden in 1945. In the course of the rebuilding of the Dresden Neumarkt and the adjacent buildings, the house on the north side of Rampische Strasse was rebuilt in 2009.

Description of the structure

Although the work of the master mason Leonhardt George Spangenberg has been archived, the architectural language of the house is that of the master builder Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann . Numerous decorative motifs such as cloth hangings, women's masks and canopies match Pöppelmann's repertoire of forms. In addition, the clear formation of the vertically connected central axis by consistently superimposing the decor speaks for Pöppelmann. Therefore Spangenberg was probably only involved in the execution of the construction.

The central axis was particularly emphasized by placing it on a raised plastered surface. It was also decorated with profiled, drilled garments and rich jewelry.

Under the window on the first floor there are cloth hangers attached to rings in the middle and two consoles that decrease in size on each side. Above the window there is a blasted segmental arch roof with short straight side parts, which is held up by two brackets on square fields. In the middle is a large cartridge with a Medusa head on the shield. The structure comprises four large volutes surrounded by fine leaves. A fully plastic helmeted woman's head ( Minerva ) adorns the crowning of the windows on the first floor.

There are small lambrequin-like consoles under the central window on the second floor . These are placed directly on the roofing of the window on the first floor, located underneath, thanks to flat, rectangular plates. There is a concave plaster field between the consoles. Above the window on the second floor there is a curved gable as a window canopy . This curls up with its two parts in the middle like volutes with an acanthus leaf . Between the two outwardly turned consoles, which also hold up this gable, there is space for a large, scaled field, in the middle of which stands a ribbed shell with a female bust.

On the third floor, the sill decorations consist of simple consoles with flowers hanging below. Between these there is a putti head, directly above the lower roof. A female bust serves as the keystone of the window, which is crowned by a small canopy with draped cloths on the sides. The fourth floor was built later and was simple.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Hertzig, p. 164

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 5.5 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 36.2 ″  E