Neustadt market hall

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Neustädter Markthalle, portal on Ritterstrasse
Inside the market hall

The Neustädter Markthalle in Dresden is a market hall that opened for the first time on October 7, 1899, on Metzer Strasse, corner of Hauptstrasse in Neustadt . After a major renovation, the listed hall was reopened as a shopping center in 2000 .

architecture

The market hall is a 86 meter long and 30 meter wide sandstone building from the Wilhelminian era . The hall is vaulted at a height of 17 meters with a skylight. On the western side, the hall is connected to a head structure made of sandstone blocks.

history

Before 1945

In 1899, the town planning officer and architect Edmund Bräter built the hall on the site of an infantry barracks near Palais Wackerbarth, which was demolished in 1896, based on plans by the former town builder Wilhelm Rettig . The City Council of Dresden bought the area for 360,000  marks from the Royal Ministry of Finance. The construction costs amounted to 600,000 marks. In order to save costs, among other things, an eastern end building was omitted. At that time the Neustädter Markthalle was one of the three large market halls in Dresden, which had replaced the weekly markets that had been closed in 1893.

When it opened, the 1158 square meters of sales area on the ground floor housed 229 sales stands. For the time being, the gallery should not be provided with sales stands. In the western end of the building there was an inn, two shops, the rooms of the former Third District Inspection, some apartments and rooms for the hall inspection. The most desirable stands were on the ground floor. For example, you had to pay 40 pfennigs per square meter and day for stands selling meat, game and poultry, and only 30 pfennigs on the gallery.

From 1945

East side of the market hall with a group of figures

Shortly before the end of the Second World War , the eastern half of the hall was destroyed by aerial bombs. In the other sections of the hall, goods were already being sold at makeshift market stalls shortly after the end of the war. In 1949 the consumer cooperative took over the market hall and in 1967 set up a 1000 square meter department store. Between 1978 and 1981 the former storage area was renovated for 5.3 million marks . Since then, the east gable has been adorned with a group of figures from the 19th century that used to stand on the log house on Neustädter Markt . A plan for the redevelopment of the western part had to be put to the files in 1982 after a Council of Ministers decision.

In April 1997 the Markthalle was acquired by Konsum Dresden eG on the basis of the Property Law Cleansing Act from the hands of the Federal Agency for Unification- related Special Tasks for four million Deutschmarks. The reopening took place on November 28, 2000 after extensive renovation work. This took about 10 months and cost 19 million euros. Among other things, the gallery was expanded and the basement converted into a sales area. For this purpose, the floor of the former air raid shelter was lowered and a few meter thick walls were removed. Some pillars that were no longer stable were replaced in the gallery. Elaborately designed stucco capitals were replaced by exact copies. 4,500 cubic meters of demolition material were removed from the hall (including around 500 cubic meters of rubble from the Second World War), 4,000 cubic meters of concrete, mainly for foundations, were put in and 6,000 square meters of tiles were laid. 43 dealers then offered their goods for sale, a restaurant was opened and a fitness studio opened the following year. The individual stands are not closed by doors. At night, a system of light barriers watches over movements in the house.

The floor space of the market hall is 2700 square meters, the rental area 4757 square meters.

Automobile Museum Dresden

On May 23, 2003, the Dresden Automobile Museum was opened on the upper floor of the Neustädter Markthalle . The exhibition area was 1100 square meters. In 2005 the rental contract was terminated. In September 2005 the museum had to move out of the Neustädter Markthalle and was reopened in 2006 as part of the GDR Museum Zeitreise in Radebeul . After its closure in 2016, some of the exhibits were returned to Dresden Neustadt in January 2017 in the high-rise on Albertplatz , while the others were stored in a warehouse.

literature

  • Georg Schwedt (2006): From corner shop to supermarket: A cultural history of shopping . Wiley-VCH

Web links

Commons : Neustädter Markthalle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jochen Hänsch: The emergence of the Dresden market halls - series of articles on the Dresden market system (volume 9) . In: Dresdner Latest News . January 21, 2002 ( online for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed February 5, 2014]).
  2. ↑ a b c Hellmut Räuber: Dresden history and stories . In: Saxon newspaper . December 5, 1996 ( online for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed February 5, 2014]).
  3. ^ Andreas Walkhoff: The history of the market hall . In: Dresdner Latest News . November 28, 2000 ( online for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed on February 5, 2014]).
  4. ↑ Information on the Neustädter Markthalle at www.dresden-lexikon.de , accessed on January 5, 2012
  5. ↑ a b c Market hall history . In: Saxon newspaper . November 28, 2000 ( online for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed on February 5, 2014]).
  6. ↑ Market hall . In: Saxon newspaper . July 11, 1998 ( online for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed February 5, 2014]).
  7. ↑ Dietmar Sehn : Poor people's market hall opened its doors 110 years ago . In: Dresdner Latest News . September 28, 2009 ( online for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed February 5, 2014]).
  8. ↑ a b Andreas Walkhoff: Construction work was made more difficult by a few surprises . In: Dresdner Latest News . November 28, 2000 ( online for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed on February 5, 2014]).
  9. ↑ The historic Neustädter Markthalle is renovated - Consumption invested 19 million marks . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . November 28, 2000 ( online for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed on February 5, 2014]).
  10. ↑ Neustädter Markthalle with 43 dealers . In: Saxon newspaper . November 28, 2000 ( online for users of the Dresden City Libraries [accessed on February 5, 2014]).
  11. ^ GDR flair on Albertplatz . In: DAWO - Dresden on the weekend . DDV , January 21, 2017, p. 1 ( online [PDF; 10.4 MB ]).

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 36.7 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 41.7"  E