Koenigstrasse (Dresden)
| Koenigstrasse | |
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| Königstraße, looking towards the Japanese Palace | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Dresden |
| District | Inner New Town |
| Created | 1722 to 1732 |
| Newly designed | since 1990 |
| Cross streets | Obergraben, Wallgässchen, Nieritzstraße, Rähnitzgasse, An der Dreikönigskirche |
| Places | Palaisplatz , Albertplatz |
| Buildings | Dreikönigskirche |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , car traffic |
| Road design | Baroque houses, linden trees |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 450 m |
The King Street in Dresden is a Baroque Boulevard. It leads from the Japanese Palace to Albertplatz . Almost all of the buildings here are still preserved Baroque originals.
Emergence
After the city fire of 1685 , August the Strong had the New King Town - now only called Neustadt - built as a planned baroque town with houses in the Dresden Baroque style. This is how Königstraße was built between 1722 and 1732. It was designed by Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann . The concept envisaged a lime-tree-planted boulevard about 340 meters long and 30 meters wide with uniform, but nevertheless individually different ensembles of houses, which saw themselves as a visual prelude to the Japanese Palace . This is how noble, restrained buildings emerged with beautiful inner courtyards, some of which lead to Rähnitzgasse or Wallgäßchen.
As the only Baroque residential area in Dresden, the area around Königstrasse survived the bombing raids during the Second World War relatively undamaged and was not demolished even during the GDR era, despite plans to the contrary. During this time, Königstrasse was renamed Friedrich-Engels- Strasse.
From 1990 the Königstrasse and neighboring streets were extensively restored and renovated. Today the baroque district of Königstrasse is home to numerous shops, galleries and restaurants as well as offices and apartments.
Individual buildings
The foundation walls of houses 3 and 5 may still go back to the time before the city fire.
From 1775 Philipp Daniel Lippert , the manager of the antiquities collection of the art academy, lived in house no. 5a . The building was renovated in 1994 and is named after its former occupant.
The baroque Dreikönigskirche is located between the main street and the Königstraße . The Dresden City Hall is located diagonally across from the church in house number 15. Its cellar vault was the domicile of the Tonne jazz club from 2002 to 2015 .
The Japanese Palace completes the view through Königstrasse. At the other end of the street was the Black Gate , where Albertplatz is today. The dead end street Am Schwarzen Tor on the other side of Albertstrasse is a reminder of this .
literature
- Folke Stimmel: Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
- Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden. History of his buildings . Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 .
- Lutz Rosenpflanzer : Baroque town houses in Dresden . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 2002, ISBN 3-364-00382-3 .
- Stefan Hertzig : The Dresden Bürgerhaus in the time of August the Strong. On the origin and essence of the Dresden Baroque . Gesellschaft Historischer Neumarkt Dresden , Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-9807739-0-6 (plus dissertation, University of Saarbrücken 1999).
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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 39.4 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 27.6" E