Engineering school for traffic engineering (Dresden)

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Teaching building of the engineering school for traffic engineering
Statue of Max Piroch next to the Technical School for Electrical Engineering Dresden, Strehlener Platz

The engineering school for traffic engineering " Erwin Kramer " was an engineering school for professions in traffic engineering at Strehlener Platz 2 in Dresden .

History of the engineering school

The engineering school was founded by order of the Minister for Transport on March 8, 1952, with effect from October 1, as the “Technical School for Railway Engineering”. It initially comprised the fields of rail vehicle technology, railway construction technology and security and telecommunications technology.

Later, the subjects of railway construction, road construction, bridge construction, railway safety technology, traffic communication technology, aviation electronics / air traffic control, aircraft technology, engineering economics of transport, electrical machines, systems and devices, as well as economics of tourism were added.

At the end of June 1981, the engineering school and the University of Transport (HfV) signed a two-year work plan that provided for more intensive cooperation. By resolution of the Council of Ministers of the GDR on December 12, 1986, the engineering school was integrated into the HfV on September 1, 1988.

After the dissolution of the HfV in 1992, the city of Dresden took over the building for the vocational school center for electrical engineering , which emerged from several previously independent vocational schools. The complex was extensively reconstructed from 1994 to 1997 for this subsequent use. The architect of the renovation was Gerhard Landgraf .

architecture

It was built from 1954 to 1958 by Richard Paulick and Friedrich Wilhelm Wurm . The sculpture was created by Max Piroch . The foundation stone was laid on April 8, 1954 by the Minister for Railways, Roman Chwalek .

The building is an example of the public secular building in socialist classicism with echoes of the Dresden Baroque . "In the architectural design an attempt was made to tie in with the Dresden Baroque in individual architectural motifs and in the structure of the facades". The corner tower and the adjoining wings facing Strehlener Strasse and Ackermannstrasse were built in a cautiously historicizing , neoclassical style. The school was built parallel to the settlement in the style of socialist classicism on Nürnberger Strasse in Dresden's Südvorstadt .

Architectural description

Corner tower and wing on Strehlener Platz / Ackermannstrasse

The tower-like corner building on Strehlener Platz with three high portals standing next to one another, each flanked by a pair of columns, is remarkable. The capitals of the columns are kept in a "typical, simply ornamenting" design language of the 1950s. The pairs of columns on the portal correspond to the pairs of columns on the upper floor of the corner tower. A cornice with a crowning decorative turret rests on it. Originally, a smaller, three-story, octagonal tower was to be built on the corner tower, with a lantern with a large gold-plated ball on top.

The facade of the wing adjoining the corner tower on Strehlener Platz / Ackermannstraße is four storeys high and consists of a base storey, three upper storeys and a recessed attic storey. The base zone consists of the basement and ground floor and is clad with sandstone and extends to the sill on the first floor. On top of this, three upper floors rise in a plastered facade , which are combined by a pilaster structure, with each axis being four meters wide. As the upper end of the wing on Strehlener Platz / Ackermannstrasse, there is a main cornice or terrace cornice on the third floor , with a column parapet above it and a recessed attic. Two axes of the facade emerge slightly as a risalit and have a segmented gable . The gable wall of the lecture hall wing on Ackermannstrasse is also remarkable. A figurative representation can be seen there at ground floor level.

Grand piano on Strehlener Strasse

The facade on Strehlener Strasse has been designed to match the facade of the wing on Ackermannstrasse. While the wing of the building on Ackermannstraße already has its final main cornice above the third floor, on the third floor of the wing on Strehlener Straße only a strong plasterwork surround was attached. The final upper end of this wing is not formed until the fourth floor. There, a weaker plaster voute emphasizes the horizontal a second time and, together with a main cornice and an attic, forms a jamb 2.20 meters high. Windows and sgraffito cassettes on the fourth floor again emphasize the horizontal.

The facade on Strehlener Straße has three specially decorated window axes. Each of these axes emerges as a risalit slightly in front of the facade, with the windows on the first and fourth floors showing a crown made of sandstone. On the first floor there is a triangular gable as a window canopy , while on the fourth floor there is a blown ornamental gable . In the attic, these risalits show a strong dormer end with column parapets .

The garden front on Strehlener Straße has a raised staircase with an emphasis on the entrance and a dominant arch at the height of the main cornice. A contrasting colored sundial was attached under the final arch, whereby a round window located there was included.

literature

  • Walter May, Werner Pampel and Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979.
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Wurm: "Technical School for Railway Systems Dresden", in: Deutsche Architektur 6/1954, pp. 262–264

Web links

Commons : BSZ ET Dresden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b University of Transport "Friedrich List" (Ed.): 1952 - 1962: University of Transport "Friedrich List" in Dresden . Dresden, 1962, p. 23.
  2. ↑ Werner Groß, Stefan Haufe, Dieter Preuß: CHRONICLE of the University of Transport "Friedrich List" Dresden 1977-1984 . Ed .: University of Transport "Friedrich List" (=  scientific journal . Special issue 20). 1985, ISSN  0043-6844 , pp. 59 .
  3. ↑ Dieter Preuß, Falk-Rainer Fries: CHRONICLE of the University of Transport "Friedrich List" Dresden. Part V: January 1985-December 1987 . Ed .: University of Transport "Friedrich List" (=  scientific journal . Special issue 39). 1988, ISSN  0043-6844 , p. 50 .
  4. ^ BSZ Elektrotechnik Dresden: School history. Retrieved April 25, 2018 .
  5. ↑ May et al., Image no. 87 (engineering school for traffic engineering)
  6. ↑ Wurm, p. 264 [Technical School for Railways Dresden]
  7. ↑ http://www.das-neue-dresden.de/fachschule-fuer-technik.html

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 1.8 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 55.7 ″  E