Regional court building in Pillnitzer Strasse

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District Court, Pillnitzer Strasse
Ruins of the district court building on Pillnitzer Strasse

The district court building Pillnitzer Strasse in Dresden was built from 1876 to 1878 according to a design by Carl Adolph Canzler and was located at Pillnitzer Strasse 41, between Richtstrasse and Mathildenstrasse in the Pirnaische Vorstadt .

history

Until 1907, the building was the sole seat of the Dresden Regional Court and the Dresden Higher Regional Court . After 1907 the criminal chambers of the regional court moved to Münchner Strasse 3, while both the civil chambers of the regional court and the higher regional court remained in Pillnitzer Strasse. In the 1930s, the state labor court was also located here. The building was destroyed by the air raids on Dresden in 1945 and was later demolished. Until 1945 the house was a branch of the Dresden remand prison with an entrance at Mathildenstraße 59. At the time of construction and until the Dresden street numbering was changed, the house had the address Pillnitzer Straße 21 (then spelling "Pillnitzerstraße").

architecture

It was a three-storey four-wing complex. The facade was built as a two-wing system on a corner plot. The facades of the two wings were similar and divided into 20 and 21 axes; the corner was drawn. The main front was on Pillnitzer Strasse. The base showed diamond square , the ground floor rustication and arched windows with key blocks. The two upper floors had a smooth sandstone facing and were divided by cornices.

The portico to Pillnitzer Strasse was designed as a three-axis central projection. Four two-story fluted columns with capitals in a colossal arrangement rose above the ground floor with three arched portals. An architrave with a gable structure was supported on it. In the middle of the gable was the Saxon coat of arms with a diamond crown.

Art historical significance

According to Volker Helas, the building had “distinctly French shapes”. So would after the Franco-German War Germany, the French Renaissance Revival used, because "the pomp need the winner came this French forms as a sort of trophies in handy." Fritz Loeffler describes the house as a "dignified, albeit time-bound representation of a high court" and “More spacious and more valuable” than other administrative buildings.

Individual evidence

  1. cf. Fritz Löffler: The old Dresden. History of his buildings , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1981, p. 412, no. 511.
  2. ^ Volker Helas: Architecture in Dresden 1800–1900 , Verlag der Kunst Dresden GmbH, Dresden 1991, p. 170.
  3. a b Volker Helas: Architecture in Dresden 1800–1900 , Verlag der Kunst Dresden GmbH, Dresden 1991, p. 77.
  4. a b Fritz Löffler: The old Dresden. History of his buildings , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1981, p. 388.

Web links

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