King Friedrich August Houses

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Middle block on Junghansstrasse.

The König-Friedrich-August-houses in Dresden- Striesen are a listed residential complex from 1911. They bear the name of the last Saxon king Friedrich August III. Today they are part of the inventory of the Aufbau Dresden eG housing association.

History and description

Houses on Junghansstrasse

The group of houses with 124 apartments was designed by the architect Theodor Richter and was the first project of the Dresden Small Housing Association founded in 1910 . The cooperative acquired the building site along Junghansstrasse between Kipsdorferstrasse and Glashütter Strasse from one of its founding members.

The facility consists of three three-storey blocks with a mansard floor, which are arranged across Junghansstrasse between Glashütter and Kipsdorfer Strasse. The three buildings are connected by a crossbar on their west side, so that they form two large open courtyards on Junghansstrasse. Particularly noticeable is a high stepped gable facing Junghansstrasse, but also the facade decorations above the entrance areas in Glashütter Strasse. “A three-dimensional effect is achieved through numerous projections and recesses.” The lavishly constructed roofs are loosened up by gable fronts or chimneys connected to form a gate.

Between the blocks leading to Junghansstrasse there were two single-storey gatehouses in the entrances to the two courtyards, but these were demolished around 1970.

The buildings are in the immediate vicinity of the W. Lande cigarette factory and the Dresden Technical Collections .

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literature

  • Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra, Martin Wörner: Architecture Guide Dresden. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, p. 156.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the history of building and housing cooperatives. PDF file on the home page of the housing association Aufbau Dresden eG
  2. ↑ Lupfer et al., P. 156
  3. ^ Karl-Heinz Löwel: Housing cooperatives in Dresden until the beginning of the Second World War. in: Stadtmuseum Dresden (ed.): Dresdner Geschichtsbuch 5. DZA Verlag, Altenburg 1999, p. 95.

Web links

Commons : König-Friedrich-August-Hauser  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 28.5 ″  N , 13 ° 47 ′ 45 ″  E