House of the Dresden merchants
The house of the Dresdner Kaufmannschaft is a building on Ostra-Allee 9 in Dresden . It existed as such until 1945, after which it served as a vocational school and is now used as an office building. Today it is a registered cultural monument of Dresden.
Construction and use until 1945
The commercial school, founded in 1854 by Mayor Wilhelm Pfotenhauer , had moved into a new school building in 1871 on the adjacent property at Ostraallee 5 (old numbering). From then on, the Dresden merchants' guild endeavored to acquire the adjacent painter's hall property to expand it. In 1902 it was bought for 130,000 marks. In 1912, a building with a 14-meter front on Ostraallee and a 48-meter front on Malergäßchen was built according to plans by the architect Alexander Hohrath . The inauguration of the schoolhouse took place in the presence of state and city authorities on February 16, 1914. The state achieved in this way - a narrow four-axle new building on Malergäßchen and a rather "dilapidated" front of the old building from 1871 - can be clearly seen on historical views of the new building of the theater .
On June 30, 1913, the general assembly approved a calculation fee of 600,000 marks for the execution of the second construction phase, including the administration and company building. The foundation stone for the new building was laid in July 1914 and the shell was completed in early 1915. The completion of the interior work was delayed and became more expensive due to the outbreak of World War I , so that the guild meeting of July 15, 1915 felt compelled to approve an additional calculation fee of 200,000 marks. This construction phase was also completed in late autumn 1916.
This second part of the new building, with a front length of 35 meters, was connected to the first assembly group on Ostra-Allee. The Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung celebrates the entire building exuberantly: “In its uniformly closed and monumental overall appearance, the magnificent building opposite the Zwinger offers the headpiece of a street in the process of development, which, beginning with the palace hotel and ending with the one in the Duchess Garden in the planning of a new natural history museum, will be intended to form an atmospheric, dignified conclusion to the magnificent Zwinger buildings with their park-like surroundings. "
Use after 1945
Partially destroyed in 1945, the front building was rebuilt in a simplified manner and continued to be used as a vocational school. In addition to the commercial vocational school “Professor Dr. Zeigner ”, the building also housed parts of the vocational school V with the horticultural and socialist retail departments from 1960 to 1971.
In 1971 the entire horticultural sector moved from the Malergäßchen to the school building built in 1900 in Dresden- Sporbitz , Am Werk 1, where he had his own house available. The commercial vocational school “Professor Dr. Zeigner ”moved into today's school building at Melanchthonstrasse 9 that same year, which was built from 1914 to 1916 according to the construction plans of Dresden city architect Hans Erlwein . Today the building is used as an office building, over 10 companies are based there.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung. No. 1 and 2. Published in the Ministry of Public Works, Berlin, January 1, 1919. 39th year.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '10.2 " N , 13 ° 43' 54.1" E