Market hall Antonsplatz

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The Markthalle Antonsplatz , also known as Antons Markthalle, was the first municipal market hall in Dresden . It was built from 1891 to 1893 in the middle of Antonsplatz according to designs by Wilhelm Rettig and Theodor Friedrich . The building was damaged in 1945 and the ruins were blown up in 1951.

description

The building was an elongated hall with a two-story facade. A flat gable roof was hidden behind the high attic . The facade was made of sandstone. Simple pilaster strips and cartouche-like mirror fields adorned the facade, which was enriched by sculptural decorations and depictions of children. The main portal was on the narrow side of the building, which was divided into seven axes. The arched portal was flanked by half-columns. The brothers Anton and Adolf Schwarz carried out the stone carving work on the portals, which u. a. were modeled by Oskar Rassau .

Art historical significance

According to Volker Helas , Rettig's design showed simple neo-baroque forms. Rettig's draft was the subject of discussion; so the name hunger style was invented for Rettig's design. Fritz Löffler also describes Rettig's style as the hunger style : "He was the first to find the courage to be more objectivity by approaching the forms of the Dresden bourgeois baroque of the late period, the hunger style ".

Friedrich Kummer ascribes to the building that it was "one of the first buildings in the city, the planning of which was based on the beauties of the old Dresden Baroque style ".

The market hall was to be created as a representative building, so in the conception "the conviction played a role that a building of this purpose and meaning (...) must be treated as a monumental building within reasonable limits". A market hall as a monumental building also seemed justified because it was one of those structures in which the cultural life of the time is preferably reflected. Matthias Lerm describes the building as "a Dresden variant of upper-class Wilhelmine representational architecture".

reception

The building was criticized not only because of its hunger style, but also because of its urban location - "The hall just took the wrong place between the post office and the technical educational institution and thus destroyed the classicist-Biedermeier Antonsplatz." That was the case after the fortress was demolished the Antonsplatz with the Kaufhallen (by Anton Ludwig Blaßmann ) was created, supplemented by the post office (by Albert Geutebrück and Joseph Thürmer ) and the Technical Educational Institute (by Gustav Heine ) - "the best solution of the Biedermeier in the sense of the Dresden tradition". It was the only more extensive urban development of the early Dresden Biedermeier period in the old town, which was only preserved as an ensemble until 1891. In 1891, Anton's market hall was built, which had a completely different architectural style than the other existing buildings on Antonsplatz.

destruction

The market hall was damaged in the Second World War. The north facade between Wallstrasse and Marienstrasse was well preserved. However, the preservation authorities supported the demand to put a wide green belt around Dresden's old town, which required the demolition of the ruins. When the fate of the building was decided in May 1951, Hans Nadler did not advocate the preservation of the neo-baroque building. Nadler only wanted a keystone and two figures. However, Hans Bronder pointed out the salvage costs of 1500 marks and considered the figures to be artistically worthless. As a result, the figures in the market hall were not saved. The building was blown up, creating a free space that was first used as a market, then as a parking lot.

literature

  • Wilhelm Kick (Ed.): Modern new buildings , 2nd year. Stuttgarter Architektur-Verlag Kick, Stuttgart 1898, plate 89. ( portfolio )
  • Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden. History of his buildings. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 , p. 482. (Place, street and subject registers ... Antonsplatz , Markthallen, W. Rettig and T. Fischer, 1891, p. 350, 365, 415. )
  • Matthias Lerm : Farewell to old Dresden. Hinstorff, Rostock 2000, ISBN 3-356-00876-5 , p. 271. (Places and buildings ... Antons Markthalle 98, 111, 98 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Löffler, p. 415 f. (The buildings of the twentieth century ... The building activity up to the First World War)
  2. ↑ a b Friedrich Kummer: Dresden and the Elbe area. A travel guide from 1912. p. 112 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  3. ^ Dresdner Nachrichten . Dresden June 4, 1893, p. 3 ( slub-dresden.de ).
  4. ↑ Volker Helas: Architecture in Dresden 1800–1900 . Dresden 1991, p. 191.
  5. ↑ Otto Richter: History of the City of Dresden from 1871 to 1902 . 2nd Edition. Dresden 1904, p. 149.
  6. ^ "F.": The market hall on Antonplatz in Dresden. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 25, 1891, No. 79 (from October 3, 1891), pp. 477–479, here p. 478.
  7. ^ "Hd" (presumably Oskar Hossfeld ): The new market hall in Dresden. In: Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Volume 11, 1891, No. 39 (from September 26, 1891), pp. 373–386, here p. 374.
  8. ↑ Lerm, p. 111 f.
  9. ↑ Löffler, p. 363 f. (No. 454 The facilities on Antonsplatz with the department store)
  10. ↑ Löffler, p. 349 f.
  11. ↑ Lerm, p. 98 f.

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 58.3 "  N , 13 ° 43 ′ 59.8"  E