Children's department store (Dresden)

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View from Wallstrasse, 2018
Children's department store 1967 seen from Webergasse , in the foreground the plastic grape eater by Erich Otto (1962)

The children's department store is a former department store at Wallstraße 13 in Dresden .

description

The building was constructed from 1959 to 1964 by the architects Wolfgang Hänsch and Georg Dettmar . Liselotte Filbrandt carried out the interior design. It was built as a coherent two- and three-storey building with a terrace on the first floor with open stairs and a usable area of ​​2141 square meters. The construction is that of a reinforced concrete skeleton . The facade is structured with wood-glass ribbon windows (grid) and parapet fields in colored mosaic. The gables of the children's department store were decorated with backlit concrete blocks. The walls were decorated with glass mosaics by Jürgen Seidel, which related to the theme of the department store.

The building owners Wolff & Müller GmbH & Co. KG had the building rebuilt.

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literature

  • Walter May , Werner Pampel and Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979.

Individual evidence

  1. May et al., P. 27 No. 18 (2) [Wall terrace with children's department store]
  2. Reference - Conversion of the former children's department store in Dresden. Dresdener Lüftungsmontagen GmbH & Co. KG, archived from the original on December 8, 2009 ; Retrieved September 8, 2009 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 57.4 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 2.5"  E