Cheese Bell (Dresden)

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Cheese bell in November 2011, behind it the Dresden theater
Postplatz around 1913, at the later location of the cheese bell still the cholera fountain , to the left (northwest) of it the old bus shelter, in the middle the old lavatory
Postplatz, 1946. The cheese bell was used during this time. a. as a platform for advertising and propaganda .

Käseglocke is the colloquial name of a building erected in 1927/28 on the Postplatz in Dresden as a waiting room , which, with interruptions, served as a service point for the Dresden Transport Company (DVB) from 1994 to 2013 . The pavilion-like building is a listed building and functions as a café.

Location

The cheese bell is in the middle of Postplatz on the western edge of Dresden's inner city . In sight are u. a. the Zwinger , the theater and the Altmarkt-Galerie .

Postplatz has been one of the most important public transport hubs in Dresden since the 19th century . Throughout the 20th century, the cheese bell stood on a triangular traffic island; since the Postplatz was rebuilt in 2006, it has been located northwest of the central track crossing immediately next to the imaginary intersection of the Schweriner, Freiberger and Wilsdruffer Straße traffic axes .

The cholera fountain stood at this point until he was relocated to the Taschenbergpalais in 1927 .

Structural matters

The floor plan of the cheese dome has a quadrilateral shape with almost semicircular arches. A stepped conical roof sits on the ground floor. The circular eaves with a radius of around three meters protrudes more than a meter and thus also covers the two stairs. They start on the east and west sides and, following the outer walls, lead roughly in a quarter circle to two separate entrances to the basement on the north side. The entrance to the one-room ground floor of the approximately five meter high building is on the east side. The semicircular arches on the south and west sides are largely glazed with windows, on the north side an ATM was built into the building wall between two smaller oval windows until mid-2014.

history

The Postplatz was the junction of six Dresden tram routes , on which mostly as many lines ran in different relations. They were brought to the square from the northeast via Sophienstraße , from the east via Wilsdruffer Straße, from the south via Marienstraße , from the southwest via Annenstraße, from the northwest via Wettiner, now Schweriner Straße, and from the north via Ostra-Allee . On the square, the routes crossed in a confusing system that created a number of traffic islands within triangular tracks and made several individual stops necessary.

As a junction, Postplatz was already a place in the 19th century where many tram passengers had to change trains. In order to make waiting for the connecting train more comfortable and to protect the passengers from precipitation while they were waiting, a small wooden waiting hall with a square floor plan was set up during the horse-drawn tram era, which stood a few meters northwest of the cholera fountain with it on a traffic island. The shelter soon proved to be insufficient for the ever increasing tram traffic. On the neighboring traffic island to the south, there was also a toilet block above ground, which at the beginning of 1927 was in a poor structural condition.

Postplatz, 1956, behind the cheese dome the ruins of the Weber Palace Hotel
Postplatz, before 1977, view to the southwest, on the right the east side of the cheese bell with the ticket office
Pendant on Albertplatz , 2012

From 1925 to 1927, the tracks at Postplatz were rebuilt. The municipal building department designed a new elongated and larger waiting hall with a newspaper kiosk inside and a lavatory in the basement at the location of the old house. According to these plans, the cholera well should not have been relocated. The city council rejected the construction on January 27, 1927 by a majority because it did not consider the building to be necessary and did not want to anticipate a complete redesign of the square including the adjacent buildings planned at that time.

Thereupon the building department presented a new plan in the early summer of 1927, which was finally implemented. The building should no longer be elongated, but round and could therefore no longer have a negative effect on any building alignment that might have been changed after the redesign of the square. The city council approved the construction on September 13, 1927 and approved 54,000 marks for it, of which just under 30,000 marks went to the construction of the basement with the transformer station and lavatory. Construction work began in the winter of 1927/28, and the handover took place on March 31, 1928. Because of its shape, which is reminiscent of a cheese bell , the waiting hall at Postplatz received its nickname in Dresden's vernacular . In the same year, a very similar counterpart, sometimes also known as the cheese bell, was built on Albertplatz in Neustadt.

During the air raids on Dresden in 1945 almost all buildings on Postplatz were badly damaged and later demolished; the traffic house, on the other hand, was only slightly damaged and stopped. In the time of the GDR it was given a loudspeaker system on the roof and a ticket office on the east side. The cheese dome was renovated in 1974 and 1979 and has been a listed building ever since. The Dresden transport company finally had the building renovated again in 1993/94. a. the loudspeaker system, which impaired the shape of the roof, was dismantled and a modern service center was set up in it.

The flooding of parts of Dresden's inner city by Weißeritz and Elbe during the floods in 2002 led to the destruction of the toilet facility in the basement, which was then closed for good and without replacement. On May 12, 2005 the service point of the Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe moved out of the subsequently vacant cheese bell due to the construction work to redesign the Postplatz and settled in a nearby container. Since the cheese dome was no longer in the immediate vicinity of the bus stop after the new tracks were installed, DVB then relocated its service point permanently to Wallstrasse. Since the redesign of the square, the cheese bell is the only relic from the time before 1945 on the Postplatz.

From October 8, 2008, the cheese dome was once again the location of a DVB service point for almost two months. It served as a temporary measure during the move of the service point Wallstraße and the DVB mobility center from Lindehaus on Wilsdruffer Straße, which then had to give way to the extension of the Altmarkt-Galerie, to the place of the former HO restaurant "Am Zwinger" ("Fresswürfel") set up Wilsdruffer Kubus, where both have since formed the central DVB customer center. After that it stood empty again for a few months.

On April 23, 2009, the Dresden public transport company reopened the cheese bell. Since then it has served the company as a training facility. DVB apprentices sold tickets and advised customers. Due to insufficient occupancy, DVB closed its service point in the Käseglocke on April 12, 2013. Until the end of the rental agreement between DVB and the City of Dresden on June 30, 2014, the company left the Käseglocke to Dresdner Kaffee and since September 7, 2013 Cocoa roasting company that ran its Käseglocke café there. The Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden, the previous sub-tenant, announced in 2014 that it would look for a new machine location on Postplatz.

The Grossenhainer René shipyard, which operates a fruit wine press in Zabeltitz, won a public tender . After a short renovation, the café was reopened on August 15, 2014 as part of the Dresden City Festival.

Web links

Commons : Cheese Bell  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ In the waiting hall on Albertplatz, which was initially also open, walls were drawn in in 1952 and ticket sales were set up, which closed again in the 1980s. After years of vacancy, the building was demolished in November 1996 because of its dilapidated fabric and replaced by a service pavilion from DVB and Stadtsparkasse opened in May 1997 at the same location . See Friedrich W. Bartel: "Cheese bell" at Albertplatz finished . In: Dresdner Latest News , edition of May 7, 1997, p. 16.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ postplatz.starkes-dresden.de: The restroom at the post office place , accessed January 23, 2013.
  2. ↑ Denni Klein: Cheese Bell at Postplatz becomes a training center. DVB apprentices should try their hand at customer contact here for ticket sales and tourist information. In: Sächsische Zeitung Online, February 20, 2009, accessed on April 13, 2020.
  3. ↑ Christoph Springer: Sausage box instead of cheese dome. DVB moved ticket sales at Postplatz from a listed circular building to a container . In: Dresdner Latest News , edition of May 13, 2005, p. 16.
  4. ↑ Christoph Springer: Ticket sales and information from the transport companies from today again in the cheese bell . In: Dresdner Latest News , edition of October 8, 2008, p. 13.
  5. ↑ Christoph Springer: Apprentices give advice in the "Cheese Bell". Transport company apprentices practice customer service in the reopened building on Postplatz . In: Dresdner Latest News , edition of April 24, 2009, p. 15.
  6. ↑ dvb.de: DVB-Service locations , accessed on January 23, 2013.
  7. ↑ Christoph Springer: Out for the "cheese bell". Transport companies say goodbye to the listed building on Postplatz . In: Dresdner Latest News , edition of April 10, 2013, p. 13.
  8. ↑ dresden-fernsehen.de , report from September 3, 2013, accessed on September 7, 2013.
  9. ↑ Catharina Karlshaus, Tobias Winzer: The new one in the cheese bell. In: Sächsische Zeitung , Dresdner Zeitung edition , July 3, 2014, p. 15.
  10. ↑ Andrea Schawe: Drinking coffee again in the Käseglocke , In: Sächsische Zeitung , accessed on April 13, 2020

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '3.9 "  N , 13 ° 43' 58.2"  E