Agricultural Fire Insurance Cooperative Dresden (building)

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The "Kaiser-Café" in Dresden 1905
The three-tier tower of the house was designed in the Neo-Empire.
Prager Strasse (1909)

The office and commercial building of the Agricultural Fire Insurance Cooperative (also known as the "Kaiser Café" ) was a representative residential and commercial building in Dresden . It was located opposite the main train station at Wiener Platz 1 at the exit from Prager Strasse . The building was built according to plans by Kurt Diestel from September 1901 to October 1902. It was badly damaged in the air raids in 1945; the ruin was demolished in the post-war period.

description

The building was a five-storey corner house within a development closed to Prager Strasse. It had a sloping corner of the building, the two corners of which were decorated with four- story tower oriels with an octagonal crown and viewing platforms. A high hipped roof with a high copper, three-tier tower by Georg Pöschmann over the corner of the building raised the two corner towers.

Its two facades consisted of Elbe sandstone from Postelwitz and the upper parts of Cotta sandstone and were decorated with rich decorations in 1901 under the influence of Viennese Art Nouveau by the sculptor Reinhold König based on designs by Kurt Diestel. The blacksmith's work was made by the Böhme & Heunen company.

On the ground floor, eight narrow shops and part of the Kaiser Café were housed on the main facade. Before the First World War, users were u. a. a hairdresser, a flower and plant shop, a chocolate shop and the AEG “installation office for electrical systems” . The offices of the Agricultural Fire Insurance Cooperative in the Kingdom of Saxony were facing the courtyard .

The entire first floor was taken up by Richard Richter's famous Kaiser-Café and its ancillary rooms. The attraction of the café was a 34 meter long balcony with a view of the station forecourt, which was later converted into a veranda. Offices were to be found on the second floor and two elegant apartments and two single rooms on the third floor. The Kaiser Café closed in 1935, and Kraftverkehr Sachsen AG then used the premises until 1945.

Art historical consideration

Kurt Diestel's Kaisercafé took "a special position [...]" because of its secession- style facade. The three-tiered tower above the sloping building corner is also remarkable. It was designed in the style of the Neoempire by Georg Pöschmann. Therefore “this monumental, space-dominating representative building [...] belonged to the Neoempire as well as to the Secession style; it had little to do with Art Nouveau . ”The facades“ renounced a tectonic structure, the wall surfaces were enlivened by rich decoration. The forms of the Empire [were] permeated by the modern artistic spirit and redesigned into something completely new. "

Web links

Commons : Kaiser-Café, Dresden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden - history of its buildings . EASeemann, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 .
  • Volker Helas : Architecture in Dresden 1800–1900 . Verlag der Kunst Dresden GmbH, Dresden 1991, ISBN 3-364-00261-4 .
  • Peter Haiko: The architecture of the XX. Century - magazine for modern architecture. Representative cross-section through the 14 published years 1901 to 1914 . Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-8030-3039-0 .
  • Volker Helas, Gudrun Peltz: Art Nouveau architecture in Dresden . KNOP Verlag for Architecture - Photography - Art, Dresden 1999, ISBN 3-934363-00-8 .
  • Deutsche Bauzeitung (DBz or Dt.Bztg.), July 30, 1904, XXXVIII vol. (38th year), No. 61, p. 377
  • Katrin Nitzschke, Perk Loesch: The Prager Strasse in Dresden. History of a boulevard , Lehmstedt Verlag, Leipzig, 2014, ISBN 978-3-942473-79-8 , pp. 73/74

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helas, p. 192 (Agricultural fire insurance cooperative. Wiener Platz 1 / Prager Strasse. 1901/1902 by Diestel.)
  2. ↑ a b Löffler, p. 416 and p. 464 (Diestel, Kurt) architect, professor at the Technical University, Agricultural Insurance, Wiener Platz, Kaiser-Café, 1901/1902, p. 416, p. 419
  3. ↑ Haiko, p. 78 image no. 93 (1903, 38: K. Diestel Wienerstr. 13)
  4. ↑ Helas / Peltz, p. 202 (Wiener Platz 1 / Prager Straße. Agricultural fire insurance)
  5. ↑ Helas / Peltz, p. 26, image no. 23
  6. ↑ Helas, p. 118

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '27 "  N , 13 ° 43' 57"  E