Hotel City of Rome (Dresden)

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Zimmermannsches Haus (Hotel Stadt Rom), Neumarkt 10 in Dresden, designed by Andreas Adam around 1739
Hotel Stadt Rom during the Dresden May Uprising
Hotel city of Rome around 1930

The Hotel Stadt Rom at Neumarkt 10 between Moritzstrasse and Kleiner Kirchgasse in Dresden was built in 1739/40 according to designs by master bricklayer Andreas Adam , a pupil of Pöppelmann. The house was destroyed in the air raids on Dresden in 1945 and the ruins were later torn down. For several years there have been plans to reconstruct the building slightly shifted due to the requirement of clearance . The zoning plan procedure is to continue from 2020 to 2023 Template: future / in 3 years.

history

On April 9, 1739, the Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Government Chancellor Gottlieb Zimmermann bought three houses and had them demolished around 1739 for a new building based on designs by master bricklayer Andreas Adam . But on April 12, 1739, the electoral mill inspector Johann Caspar Richter paid 7,400 thalers to the government chancellor Zimmermann. On May 13, 1739, Richter knew to report that he intended to "completely demolish the Zimmermann house that was recently bought on Neumarckte and have it rebuilt from scratch". Andreas Adam was commissioned to build the “new Zimmermann house”. When the building became the property of Richter on October 27, 1740, the files identified the house as newly built.
The house burned down in the Prussian bombardment during the Seven Years' War on July 19, 1760. Since February 3, 1768, the building has belonged to the Chamber President Hans Christoph von Poigk , who had it restored. In 1833 the building was opened as a hotel. In May 1843, the 25-year-old Karl Marx stayed in the hotel for two weeks. In 1849 barricade fights of the Dresden May uprising took place in front of the hotel. In 1909 the hotel narrowly escaped demolition due to road widening. In the 1930s the hotel had 60 beds.

architecture

The building was free on three sides. It was five-axis, five-story and ended with a mansard roof. The central projection was three window axes wide and was flanked on the sides by backs, which were one window axis wide. Compared to the unadorned reserves, the risalit with rocailles decor was "also decoratively highlighted, in keeping with Knoeffel's style of design". There were three-storey bay windows at the corners. The roof had gray-black slate instead of the usual red tiles.

Art historical significance

According to Hertzig, the building is one of the “most beautiful and best buildings not only in the second third of the 18th century, but also in all of Dresden's bourgeois building industry”. According to Hertzig, the house combined the design of Johann Christoph Knöffel and that of Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann :

"In a unique way, the influences of the Knoeffelian pilaster strip style (splendidly crafted Rocailles decor under the windows between a strict pilaster structure on the fronts) combined with the high baroque forms of Pöppelmann (curved and richly ornamented corner bay windows [...])."

Individual evidence

  1. Green light for Hotel Stadt Rom: With the building reconstruction, the Neumarkt development could be completed , in: Sächsische Zeitung . 16th May 2019.
  2. a b c d Stefan Hertzig: The Dresden town house of the late baroque 1738 - 1790 . Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , pp. 58 .
  3. Stefan Hertzig, Walter May , Henning Prinz : The historic Neumarkt in Dresden: its history and its buildings . Sandstein, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-937602-46-1 , p. 89 .

literature

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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 5.1 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 27 ″  E