Ostbahnstrasse (Dresden)

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Ostbahnstrasse
coat of arms
Street in Dresden
Ostbahnstrasse
Ostbahnstrasse in 1895
Basic data
place Dresden
District Seevorstadt , Südvorstadt
Connecting roads Werderstrasse, Residenzstrasse
Cross streets Uhlandstrasse, Franklinstrasse
Technical specifications
Street length approx. 900 m

The Ostbahnstraße was a street in the Dresden See- and Südvorstadt .

Until 1945, the Ostbahnstraße ran parallel to the Hochgleisdamm on the Děčín – Dresden-Neustadt line . It began on Werderstrasse (today's Andreas-Schubert-Strasse) and ended after about 900 meters into Residenzstrasse (today's Gerhart-Hauptmann-Strasse). The Ostbahnstraße running south of the embankment also represented the northern border of the American Quarter , which was built in 1870 , but took a special position in this with the one-sided development along its south side. There were numerous artist studios in the multi-storey tenement houses.

Elisabeth Andrae lived and worked in no. 2, Wilhelm Lachnit in no. 9, Hugo Bürkner in no. 16, Robert Sterl , in no. 17 Fritz Tröger and Friedrich Wilhelm Hörnlein , in no. 20 the writer Marie Constance Baroness von Malapert-Neufville , in No. 24 Erna Bercht .

Even Arthur Bendrat (no. 3), Otto Griebel (no. 16) Hans and Lea Grundig , Peter Palitzsch , Horst Saupe (no. 17), Erwin Schulhoff and his sister Viola (no. 28) were located in the Ostbahnstraße. Robert Sterl lived and worked first at Ostbahnstrasse 16 and after his marriage in 1897 briefly at Ostbahnstrasse 10. In 1898 he moved into an apartment at Ostbahnstrasse 4 and had a studio at No. 17.

The “Sängerhalle” restaurant was on the corner of Uhlandstrasse. Max Balke ran a pub that had the reputation of an artist's pub. At Ostbahnstrasse 8 there was a gas station that had been open continuously since 1906.

Woldemar Winkler wrote about Ostbahnstrasse during the Nazi era : “Ostbahnstrasse, the so-called Dresden Montmartre, initially remained without flags, but the communists for their part soon pulled out the red cloth, and since the painters were essentially left politically, Ostbahnstrasse was almost unirot fluttered. There were also some black, red and yellow flags of the Republicans, i.e. Social Democrats, but also black, white and red flags were seen in the streets. Everyone showed their attitude (...) until one day the wind hit my studio window meaningfully against my studio window with a huge bang, a huge, dazzling new flag that reached from the third floor to the first floor. The black swastika spider on the white mirror shone like a torch against the background of the shabby houses and the increasingly pale and browner communist flags. The new era announced itself boastful and noisy. "

The buildings on Ostbahnstrasse were destroyed in February 1945 during the heavy air raids on Dresden . In the post-war period, the former street was added to the premises of the Strehlener Straße concrete plant .

A painting by Arthur Krauss, which shows the Anglican All Saints Church seen from Ostbahnstrasse, has been preserved. The church itself had the same fate as the buildings on Ostbahnstrasse; its ruins were torn down in 1952 and the square was built over.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ American Quarter in Stadtwiki Dresden
  2. ^ Ostbahnstrasse in the Dresden City Wiki
  3. ^ Walter Kempowski : The red rooster. Dresden in February 1945. Munich 2001, ISBN 3-442-72842-8 , passim .
  4. ↑ Biographical information on Robert Hermann Sterl
  5. ↑ Dresdner Journal 2, January 3, 1906, p. 11.
  6. ↑ Biographical information on Woldemar Winkler
  7. ↑ Ruins on bildindex.de
  8. ↑ Description on dresdner-stadtteile.de
  9. ↑ Hans-Jochen Free Life: The Anglican Church. All Saints Church . In: City of Dresden (Hrsg.): Lost churches: Dresden's destroyed churches. Documentation since 1938 . Dresden 2018, p. 26–29 ( online edition. PDF; 6.4 MB).

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 12.5 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 32 ″  E