Apartment building Bürgerwiese 14

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Dresden, Bürgerwiese 14. On the right edge of the picture you can see the connection to the Bürgerwiese 15 building.

The tenement building at Bürgerwiese 14 (previously Halbe Gasse 2 , later at An der Bürgerwiese 26 ) was built in 1838 by Woldemar Hermann . It was built as a palace-like house in the classicism style with echoes of the historicist neo-renaissance . It stood on the south side of the Dresdner Bürgerwiese , at the corner of Lindengasse, opposite the Dohnaischer Schlag . All parts of the building were demolished in 1899.

description

The three-storey corner house with a mezzanine was built as a stately mansion. Both the show facade and the side facade each took up three window axes. This created a cubic shape of the building. The square ground floor with a strong corner rustication showed arched windows. The windows of the two smoothly plastered upper floors showed a flat gable roof with acroteric decorations, mirrors and a delicate corner cuboid. A rich relief was located below the entablature . There were sculptural busts, vases and candelabras, griffins and kneeling figures.

While the cubic unity of the house was characterized by classicism, the Venetian window (“Palladio motif”) in the middle of the main floor showed neo-Renaissance forms.

Location and history

The building was commissioned by François Frédéric Xavier de Villers (1770 in Boulay (France) - 1846 in Dresden), who is listed in the 1839 address book as a professor of the French language. As early as 1826/27 Villers had the Schwanenhaus built in the former Cosel Garden by architect Woldemar Hermann.

He owned a large piece of land in the garden of the Palais Moszinska, now used as a military hospital . A building belonging to de Villers was already there, and the new house was attached directly to the annex on the courtyard side. De Villers sold lots of his large property and is considered to be one of the triggers of the building boom in the later English Quarter . In the following years, among other things, Lüttichaustrasse, Lindengasse and Moscinskystrasse were built on the park area of ​​the Moszynska Palais.

Thus, in the 1830s , the Dresdner Bürgerwiese began to transform into an elegant area with upper-class buildings. Until then, the Bürgerwiese had been a walled meadow leased by the city as a pasture for cattle. But with increasing development, the desire to create a garden grew. As early as 1835, several well-off residents, including Frédéric de Villers and the royal personal physician Friedrich Ludwig Kreysig , complained about their complete isolation from the city and about the wall that gave the meadow the appearance of an animal kennel. In 1838 the Dresden city council decided to have the lower inner citizen meadow filled up and to create a garden.

In 1856, a "valet" lived in the house, whose owner is now given as Herr von der Trenk, on the ground floor, the widow Frau von Tempsky and Frau von Broizem, referred to as "Privata", on the first floor. One floor above lived the widow of a chamberlain at the Saxon court, Countess von Rex. Carl Theodor Chalybäus , the director of the Green Vault, lived on the mezzanine floor under the roof .

The address of the house changed several times. It was built before Halbe Gasse and Dohnaische Gasse, which both ran along the Bürgerwiese, were combined to form "An der Bürgerwiese". At the time of construction, the address was Halbe Gasse 278 , the houses were still labeled with their cadastral number. In 1839 the Dresden city administration introduced street-by-street numbering of the houses. The house appears in the address book from 1840 together with the neighboring house as “Halbegasse 2 u. 3 (...) de Villers ”. Later the address was Bürgerwiese 14, until the numbering was changed to the current way of counting (even house numbers on one side, odd on the other). That was the address until Bürgerwiese 26 was demolished.

The building was demolished in 1899 together with the older buildings on the same property and together with the Seebach House to make way for modern block perimeter development. In their place were three stately Art Nouveau tenement houses, such as the Bürgerwiese 20 tenement house and the so-called Dianabad .

literature

  • Volker Helas: Architecture in Dresden 1800–1900 . Verlag der Kunst Dresden, Dresden 1991, ISBN 3-364-00261-4 .
  • Volker Helas: Villa architecture in Dresden . Taschen, Cologne 1991, p. 52, ISBN 3-8228-9755-8 .

Web links

Commons : Bürgerwiese 14, Dresden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helas (1991), p. 139 (Bürgerwiese 14. 1838 by Hermann) / Helas (1999), p. 52 (Woldemar Hermann, Bürgerwiese 14, 1838).
  2. ↑ Royal. Saxon licensed Dresden address calendar. Dresden 1839, p. 266.
  3. ↑ See, for example, the plan of the capital and residence city of Dresden together with the suburbs. 1: 4,000, lithograph from 1833 by I. G. Hessler ( online in the Deutsche Fotothek ).
  4. ^ Heidrun Laudel: Architecture and Construction. in: Reiner Gross and Uwe John: History of the City of Dresden. Volume 2. Stuttgart 2006. Page 648. Also an illustration in the same volume, page 649.
  5. ^ Thomas Wieczorek: The villa district on the Bürgerwiese. in: Ronald Franke, Heidrun Laudel (Ed.): Building in Dresden in the 19th and 20th centuries. Dresden 1991, p. 25f.
  6. ^ Sylvia Butenschön: History of the Dresden city green. Berlin 2007, page 140 f.
  7. ^ Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden. Dresden, 1856. Part 2 with house book, p. 291.
  8. ↑ Royal. Saxon licensed Dresden address calendar. Dresden 1839, p. 266.
  9. ^ Gisela Hoppe: The Dresden address books. in: Dresdner Geschichtsbücher 5, Altenburg 1999, p. 258
  10. ^ Dresden address handbook. Dresden 1840, p. 301.
  11. ^ Housing and business manual of the royal residence and capital Dresden for the year 1892. Dresden 1892, p. 841.

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 38 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 27 ″  E