Beichlingen Palace
The Palais Beichlingen was a baroque palace built in 1715 near the Neumarkt in Dresden . It was located between the inner Pirnaische Gasse (today Landhausstrasse ) and Moritzstrasse, with facades on both sides. Not long after the construction, both parts of the building were structurally separated. The part to the inner Pirnaische Gasse is known as the British Hotel , the southern part of the palace was known as the Palais de Saxe . The British Hotel was reconstructed and rebuilt until 2010.
description
Both halves of the building had three full floors, a mezzanine floor and a high mansard roof . The entire architectural structure of both houses was basically identical. They were located in the inner Pirnaische Gasse as well as in the Moritzstrasse in the midst of a closed development and fitted into the height of the surrounding buildings. There was a rectangular courtyard between the two parts of the building.
The facade was seven window axes wide. Two upper floors rose above a high ground floor, and the mezzanine floor was located above a cornice . The middle three axes were taken up by a risalite , which in the Palais de Saxe was divided vertically by four colossal fluted three-quarter columns. Fluted pilasters were found on the risalit of the British Hotel and simple pilasters on the sides of the risalit . Above the columns and pilasters were volutes on which the main cornice and mansard roof rested.
Both buildings had magnificent facade decorations, partly an ingredient from the decades after their construction. Due to the colossal order of pilasters and columns, both houses were clearly distinguished from the surrounding town houses as palaces. The floor plan with its living rooms facing both the streets and the courtyard, the three-flight staircase on the side and the adjoining rooms in the side wings was more reminiscent of a town house. Only the sixteen-axis, rectangular courtyard, structured with protruding risalits, corresponded to that of an aristocratic palace.
history
The palace was built between 1712 and 1715 under the direction of George Bährs and George Haases . The builder was the Grand Chancellor and Oberhofmarschall Wolf Dietrich von Beichlingen , who had only been released from prison in the Königstein Fortress in 1709.
In 1752 Rahel bought Louise Countess von Hoym nee Countess von Werthern opened the palace and had her own family coat of arms and that of her children affixed to the facade.
During the Seven Years' War , both buildings, especially the Palais de Saxe, were damaged by Prussian shelling and rebuilt a few years later. Since the beginning of the 19th century, the part of the building facing Landhausstrasse has been used as a hotel, mainly accommodating British travelers. After the First World War, the house was used as a residential and commercial building. The Palais de Saxe was rebuilt in 1887 by Oswald Haenel . Both halves of the building were completely destroyed in the air raids on February 13, 1945 .
reconstruction
In 2008–2010, Hapimag AG rebuilt the British Hotel as an upscale holiday home complex. During the reconstruction of the British Hotel, the Swiss company Hapimag reconstructed the facade of the building true to the original using parts of the facade that still existed and restored parts of the cellar vaults.
literature
- Daniel Jacob: Baroque aristocratic palaces in Dresden - the buildings, their architects and residents. Publisher Daniel Jacob, 2011.
Individual evidence
- ^ Stefan Hertzig : The Dresden community center in the time of Augustus the Strong. On the origin and essence of the Dresden Baroque . Dresden 2001, p. 264 .
- ^ Fritz Löffler: The old Dresden. 3rd edition, Dresden 1958, p. 56.
- ^ British Hôtel - Quartier IV / 2. Gesellschaft Historischer Neumarkt Dresden , accessed on September 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Hapimag celebrates opening at Dresden Neumarkt: The British Hotel has been rebuilt. In: Presseportal.ch. November 25, 2010, accessed September 15, 2019 (press release).
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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 3 ″ N , 13 ° 44 ′ 30 ″ E