Apartment building Niederwaldstrasse 37
The apartment building Niederwaldstraße 37 , also known as the Löwenkopfpalais , is a listed building in Dresden . It was built for Emil Röhner in 1896/97. The luxurious apartment building is located in the midst of a large number of similar detached houses in Dresden- Striesen . In this area between Schandauer Straße and Blasewitz , but also south of Fetscherplatz, many hundreds of these so-called coffee mill houses or "Dresdner Würfelhäuser" were built around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries .
description
The large three-storey house with a partially expanded attic is located on the corner of Niederwaldstrasse and Voglerstrasse. It has a plan that follows the course of the street and is not quite square, with the main side facing Niederwaldstraße. The facade made of yellow and dark purple brick is lavishly decorated and designed, has numerous details such as differently designed balconies, gables and balustrades. There is an angled bay window to the street corner, which is crowned by a slate-covered hood. The pillars of the gate are made of sandstone, each with a lion resting on them.
Interior design
The interior design is similarly complex. From the entrée, one reaches the very spacious stairwell in the center of the house with a semicircular staircase on green painted cast iron supports. On the floors, the apartments can be reached via galleries overlooking the inner courtyard of the stairwell . The natural lighting of the stairwell is provided by a large skylight. From the stairs and the galleries you can see a small fountain with a loose natural stone setting on the ground floor.
Entrance and stairwell are richly decorated. There are lavishly framed murals on the walls of the entrance area above the wood paneling of the plinth. The pictures in the middle show a very lightly clad young woman who is resting in a hammock and swinging a garland of flowers in front of a cloud background. She is surrounded by naked angels. A partially gilded stucco frieze leads over to the ceiling, on which a winged allegory of peace is depicted. It says “Greetings” on its tape. The stairwell is dominated by the small fountain in its center, which is surrounded by the iron columns supporting the stairs. On the wall that closes it off at the rear there is a picture of a man presumably depicting Neptune in a bank landscape with reeds and water lilies. The staircase is also adorned with ornamental paintings in Renaissance and Rococo forms, the iron banister is dissolved in leaf tendrils.
Monument protection measures
During the renovation in accordance with listed buildings in 1999, the façade was cleaned and missing areas were carefully reworked. In the interiors, the original wall paintings were overlaid with up to five layers of paint. The restorers had to carefully strip the paint, clean and analyze the paintings. Then a primer of shellac and oil paint was applied to give hold to the retouches made with artist oil paint. The paint was then sealed with a protective paint . The wood and marble imitations in the stairwell were faithfully applied to a base coat with pigments dissolved in beer. In consultation with the monument office, modern building services, such as an elevator, were also installed.
use
Owner Emil Röhner, whose occupation is listed in the address book from 1899 as a saddler, lived in an apartment on the ground floor. The privateer Alexander Heimbürger also lived on the same floor . On the first floor , Lieutenant Colonel a. D. rented an apartment from Stuckrad. There were more tenants on the upper floors, such as a bank clerk and a post office assistant, but also the ladies Marie and Thekla Platz, who lived together on the third floor.
According to the address book from 1901, the house owner Röhner now lived in Wachwitz, Mr. Heimbürger now had the ground floor to himself, while a saddler's assistant lived in the basement . Otherwise little had changed, on the third floor there was a musician, the postal assistant and a teacher living next to the Damen Platz.
In the years that followed, the building was still inhabited by a middle-class clientele. A craftsman usually lived in the basement, but the other tenants are usually listed as "privateers" or were merchants and civil servants. For the time after the First World War, it is noticeable that three tenants now also lived on the lower floors. In 1932 the house belonged to an Oskar van Ausseloos and was managed by the retired police secretary Oskar Rämisch. However, not much had changed in the composition of the tenants. In addition to a worker in the basement, a doctoral engineer, a businessman and a college teacher are named - the address books do not reveal whether they are with family or single. A postal inspector, a tram conductor, an authorized signatory and a carpenter are now named on the third floor.
photos
western side elevation
Detail of the bay window
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments. Dresden . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-422-03110-3 , p. 216.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cultural monument: Niederwaldstraße 37. Retrieved on February 2, 2011.
- ↑ Holger Starke (ed.): History of the city of Dresden. Volume 3. Dresden, 2006. p. 99.
- ^ A b Mathias Donath, Jörg Blobelt: Angels in the hallway. Decorative art in Dresden residential buildings. edition Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden 2009, page 89.
- ↑ Thomas Dathe: The Löwenkopfpalais - committed to the original. in: Monument Office Dresden: Dresden. Monument protection and preservation. Merseburg / Dresden 2002, page 33.
- ↑ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs 1899. Pages 450 of the first and 318 of the second part.
- ↑ Address book for Dresden and its suburbs 1899. Page 344 of the second part.
- ^ Address book for Dresden and suburbs. Dresden 1932, page 502 of the third part.
Web links
- The Lion's Head Palace on the website of the construction company Fira (with picture gallery)
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 46 ″ N , 13 ° 48 ′ 24.5 ″ E