House Wilsdruffer Strasse 7
The house at Wilsdruffer Strasse 7 (Hotel “Goldener Engel”, formerly “Geyersches Haus”) in Dresden was a baroque residential building that had been used as a hotel since the 18th century. It was built around 1714 and demolished in 1930.
description
The building had five stories and was six axes wide. The construction was carried out under the merchant and trader Johann Samuel Drobisch. A sandstone angel by Christian Gottlieb Kühn was located above the wide arched portal . Broad pilaster strips that reached to the cornice , which separated the third floor from a mezzanine , framed the facade. The middle four axes - again only up to the third floor - were slightly presented as a risalit , the windows of these axes were suspected differently on the individual floors . Under the gables of the roofs on the first and second floors were cartouches with fine scrollwork and tendrils . The two outer axes were only decorated with graded plastered fields under the windows of the second and third floors.
The risalit originally continued above the cornice in the form of a large diaphragm, which was crowned by a segmental arch extending over all four axes . In the center of the arch there was an oval window with ornaments made of stucco. A decorative vase crowned the gable.
The fourth (mezzain) storey was not built until the 19th century, when a window was added to each side of the dwelling.
Inside the building, a corridor led from the portal to a square courtyard. The three-flight staircase was on the left. The design of the ground floor had probably been changed significantly by the hotel use compared to the original state. In any case, the rooms on the ground floor facing the street were always used as shops. On the upper floors there were stately living rooms which - facing the street - were laid out as an enfilade . The living rooms at the rear received their light from the courtyard.
history
The house was probably used as a hotel from at least the second half of the 18th century. Friedrich Schiller was mentioned as a guest for 1785 on a plaque attached to the house in the late 19th or early 20th century. Also ETA Hoffmann stayed "Angel Golden" in and mentioned the hotel in his fantasy pieces . Around 1800 the house had 24 stately rooms and 24 stable spaces. In the second half of the 19th century, the hotel was expanded to include the neighboring building to the east, and later another building to the east (previously Hotel "Stadt Naumburg"), which probably dates back to the Renaissance. The early baroque bay windows of these buildings are described by Cornelius Gurlitt. The two two-storey bay windows were framed by Doric pilasters below and Ionic pilasters above . There was a hanger on the lower parapet and a cartridge on the upper one .
The shops on the ground floor mostly sold fashion and accessories. In the 1880s, the Thonet brothers ran a furniture shop here.
The hotel was demolished in 1930. In its place a department store in the Bauhaus modern style was built, which belonged to the Leipzig merchant Karl Kaiser. A Woolworth department store was set up on the lower two floors, while Kaiser & Co.'s “The Large Fabric Floor” was located on the second floor. The Knoof department store, which was damaged in the war, was later rebuilt by 1952 and closed in 2009 the monument protection for the extension of the Altmarkt-Galerie was demolished.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Stefan Hertzig: The Dresden community center in the time of August the Strong. Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-9807739-0-6 , pp. 119-121.
- ↑ It is not yet included in two lists of Dresden inns from 1737 and 1749.
- ^ Dresden and the Elbe area. Published by the Association for the Promotion of Dresden and Tourism , Dresden 1909, p. 112.
- ↑ Manfred Wille: Dresden hospitality - from the beginning to the present. A & R Adam-Verlag, Dresden 2008, p. 36 ff.
- ↑ See for example the Dresden address book from 1850, p. 145 of the house book.
- ↑ The directly neighboring house is mentioned for the first time in the address book of 1859, p. 398 as belonging to the "Golden Angel", the second house is first mentioned in the address book of 1866, p. 240 of the house book. The house numbers of the three houses were then (from east to west) 4, 5 and 6.
- ↑ 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. 668 f.
- ↑ 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 & Söhne, Dresden 1903, Fig. 527, pp. 667–668.
- ↑ See u. a. the 1880 address book, p. 375.
- ↑ Article on das-neue-dresden.de
- ^ Address book for Dresden and suburbs 1932. Part III, p. 780. On this page there is also a two-column advertisement for the department store ( online ).