Skyscraper on Albertplatz
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The high-rise on Albertplatz (also known as Verkehrsbetriebe high-rise or DVB high-rise after its long-term use , and Paulick high -rise after the architect ) is the oldest office high-rise in Dresden and one of the (few) preserved buildings of pre-war Dresden modernism . It was built in 1929 according to plans by Hermann Paulick by Benno Löser for the government councilor Alfred Hesse; the most important user until 1945 was the Saxon State Bank . The building is a listed building.
location
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The building is located north of Albertplatz on the left-hand side of Königsbrücker Straße and north of Antonstraße, which crosses from the west . It is at the end of the line of sight over the main street . Only the Artesian Fountain (on the opposite side of the street) is at the even more precise end of Dresden's main historical axis, which extends into the old town. The well house, i.e. the point of exit of the artesian well, is located directly next to the high-rise. When the building was expanded, it was rebuilt in 2014, only the front facing Antonstrasse remained free.
The Wilhelminian-style Outer Neustadt begins to the north , while historicist single villas and gardens dominate the oval of Albertplatz . On the opposite street corner there is a building with an individualized industrial design of post-war architecture.
building
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The eleven-storey and 37-meter tower was used as reinforced concrete - frame construction built in corner position and received a factual plastered facade. This is staggered vertically by slightly forward bay windows. The top two floors are set back from the entire lower facade. The eastern side, facing the Königsbrücke Straße, is the shorter of the house. Side wings are attached to the side, which assumed the usual eaves height of the (originally) directly adjoining houses. As part of the renovation, the three upper floors of the side wings were removed in order to merge flush with the attached commercial building.
use
The first main user was the Sächsische Staatsbank, which had only had its headquarters in Dresden since 1920 (it emerged from the official lottery loan fund founded in Leipzig in 1862 ). In terms of its function, the bank was comparable to Sachsen LB. During the air raids in 1945 it was not completely destroyed because of its massive construction. After the Sächsische Staatsbank was wound up by the Landesbank in 1948, the transport companies continued to use the building. The architect Otto Ziller was in charge of the repairs necessary for this, as well as the renovation for the transport companies to move in .
The building has been empty since the Dresden public transport company moved its administration to the Trachenberge depot in 1997 . The words Verkehrsbetriebe remained on the main page of the building until the beginning of 2015 and then came to the Dresden Tram Museum .
In August 2009 the entrances to the building were bricked up because of alleged damage caused by vandalism. After plans to convert it into a hotel or a student residence with shops on the street level, Simmel AG took over the high-rise building with the surrounding property in 2012 with the aim of renovating the high-rise as an office building and adding a two-story commercial building with underground car parks. The regional grocery chain managed by Simmel under the Edeka brand was intended to be the main user from the start.
To this end, the site was cleared in 2013, only the well house, which is also listed, remained. At the beginning of 2014, civil engineering work began on the new market building, which was then built. Turnerweg, a previously narrow side street to Antonstrasse west of the complex, was widened to the detriment of the property in order to improve the transport connection of the building. In March 2015, the top three of the five upper floors of the old side wings were removed so that they are flush with the new building. At the beginning of July 2015, the Simmelmarkt, which extends over the ground floor, and an Aldi branch, an electronics store followed at the end of August. The entire opening took place after the last construction work was completed in late summer 2015.
Museum "The World of the GDR"
Since January 2017, the “Die Welt der DDR” museum has been housed on four floors of the high-rise building, which succeeded the closed GDR Museum Zeitreise in Radebeul.
literature
- Helmut Löser, Jürgen Stritzke: From the work of Benno Löser <1878 to 1944> and his employees: A documentation on the history of reinforced concrete construction . 2nd Edition. TU Dresden, Dresden 1990.
Footnotes
- ↑ (K) a skyscraper on Albertplatz in Dresden? In: Saxon State Archives . July 14, 2014, accessed July 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Thomas Kantschew: High-rise building with future potential. Vertical emphasis at a prominent intersection. In: The new Dresden. Retrieved August 25, 2014 .
- ↑ Holger Frenzel: Museum Ticker 3/15: Tram Museum buys “Verkehrsbetriebe”. Tram Museum Dresden eV, March 2015, accessed on May 17, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Hauke Heuer: Dresden DVB-Hochhaus: Edeka, Aldi and Schuhbeck can move in from May. In: DNN Online . December 18, 2014, accessed April 13, 2015 .
- ^ Movement at Dresden's Albertplatz: Edeka begins with the demolition of the outbuildings on the high-rise. In: DNN Online. January 13, 2013, accessed January 26, 2014 .
- ↑ Carola Pönisch: The high-rise building on Albertplatz can finally be renovated. In: Wochenkurier . November 13, 2013, accessed January 26, 2014 .
- ↑ http://www.weltderddr.de/museum
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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 50.7 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 47.2" E