Luftgaukommando (Dresden)

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Luftgaukommando Dresden

The former Luftgaukommando is a building complex at August-Bebel-Straße 19 in the Dresden district of Strehlen , which was built from 1935 to 1938 according to designs by Wilhelm Kreis as the headquarters of Luftgaukommando IV of the Wehrmacht Air Force . In the post-war period it was the seat of the Saxon state government. 1959-1989 he was from the military academy Friedrich Engels of the NVA the GDR used. Parts of the facility now serve as the administration building for the Bundeswehr. In the remaining buildings there are facilities of the Technical University of Dresden .

description

It is a large complex, strictly symmetrical around a courtyard, which was built in the park of the former Royal Villa . The elongated main building has three floors and was built from natural stone. It encloses the main courtyard together with the two gatehouses. The main building is flanked by three more two-story, simple outbuildings. They are connected to each other by lower wings. The figure frieze Flying Genius above the rectangular windows of the central building is remarkable . The central building serves as an entrance hall and has been designed like a portico . The sculptor was Karl Albiker , who was a student of Auguste Rodin and a professor at the Dresden Art Academy . Represented Icarus , volcano and some warriors . The relief heads of Otto Lilienthal and General Ernst Udet are also on the longitudinal front .

The building was built on the model of the German Hygiene Museum . The style was that of a "coarse neoclassicism and nationally grandiose monumentalism". Neoclassicism and monumentalism (1920–1945) had their origins in reform architecture . They were part of the "conservative modernity".

  • Relief with Icarus (center), flanked by a volcano and warriors

  • Relief head

  • Main building in the former Luftgaukommando IV complex

  • Main entrance to the former Luftgau Command IV

Web links

Commons : Luftgaukommando Dresden  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former Luftgaukommando. In: Handbook of German Art Monuments , Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03110-3 , pp. 206f.
  2. ^ Handbook of German Art Monuments, Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-422-03110-3 , p. 207.
  3. ↑ Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra, Martin Woerner (ed.): Architectural Guide Dresden. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 , object no. 254 (Former Luftgaukommando, administration building of the Bundeswehr, August-Bebel-Straße 19, 1938, Wilhelm Kreis)
  4. ↑ http://www.das-neue-dresden.de/luftgaukommando.html
  5. ↑ Ulrich Hübner et al .: Symbol and Truthfulness. Reform architecture in Dresden. Verlag der Kunst Dresden Ingwert Paulsen jun., Husum 2005, ISBN 3-86530-068-5 , p. 12.

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 55.1 ″  N , 13 ° 45 ′ 19.2 ″  E