Chancellery (Dresden)

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Original chancellery house (center left; around 1900) from the east, behind the house man's tower of the castle, in the foreground and on the right the stable yard

The office building is a three-wing reconstructed building in the old town of Dresden . It is located between the Stallhof and the Kanzleigäßchen, with its address at Schloßstraße  24 on the short side of the building facing the Dresden Residenzschloss .

During the reconstruction, historical, listed building fabric was integrated.

history

Residential palace and office building in front of the development of the other vacant lots (2008)
South facade (on Kanzleigäßchen) of the reconstructed office building in 2008, in front of that quarter VIII of the Neumarkt area , which was built up until 2012
Reconstructed office building from the west: Schloßstraße left, Kanzleigäßchen right (2011)

The administration building, built from 1565 to 1567 after 1564 by the builder Hans Irmisch , served the electoral chancellery . The workshop of Mathes Stöckel , who was hired as court printer in 1568, was also in the house.

Until it was rebuilt in the first half of the 18th century, the Renaissance building featured rich sgraffito decorations by the Italian painter Benedikt da Tola (1525–1572).

From 1911 to 1945 the coin cabinet was housed in the chancellery. As a result of the air raids on Dresden , this oldest administrative building in the city was badly damaged in February 1945 and burned down. Most of the remains of the building were demolished in 1961; only the basement remained.

On March 25, 1980, the Catholic diocese of Dresden-Meißen moved its seat from Bautzen to Dresden and elevated the Catholic Court Church to a cathedral. However, the diocese lacked administrative offices nearby, so that in 1996 planning to rebuild the office building began. In just under two years, from June 1997 to April 1999, the three-storey building was reconstructed as the “House of the Cathedral” . The inauguration took place 19 years after the relocation of the headquarters on March 25, 1999, the feast of the Annunciation . The construction costs amounted to 24 million Deutschmarks, of which the Free State of Saxony took over 19 million. That money comes from a payment that was made for the takeover of the nearby former Catholic clergy in Schloßstraße.

The building houses event rooms for the diocese and the episcopal city, the seat of the bishop, the seat of the cathedral chapter and the parish center of the cathedral parish. The Catholic St. Benno bookshop is on the ground floor .

Footnotes

  1. ^ Georg Müller:  Stöckel, Mathes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 283.
  2. ↑ History of the collection. Münzkabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden , accessed on October 31, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b The Chancellery. Gesellschaft Historischer Neumarkt Dresden , accessed on October 31, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Diocese of Dresden-Meißen: House of the cathedral inaugurated. In: Lord's Day online. April 4, 1999, accessed October 31, 2018 .
  5. ↑ The wave of reconstruction continues: construction of the destroyed law firm in Dresden. In: BauNetz . September 5, 1997, accessed October 31, 2018 .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 9.4 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 17.5 ″  E