Palais Dietrich
Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 17.3 " N , 12 ° 14 ′ 44.2" E
The Palais Dietrich is an 18th century building at Zerbster Straße 35 in the former old town of Dessau . Prince Leopold had the building built for his son, Dietrich von Anhalt-Dessau (1702–1769), from 1747 to 1752 .
building
The two-storey house with a mansard roof rests on foundations made of field stones and masonry stones set in clay. The depth of the foundations is only 50 to 60 cm. The façade has a strongly protruding central risalit , the three central window axes of which are set off again. A two-sided outside staircase, which was added in 1930, leads to the round arched central portal, which is framed by an aedicula with segmented arched gable. Around 1820 the roof and the facade were structurally changed. In 1972/73 the gate passage on Zerbster Strasse, crowned with baroque sandstone figures, was demolished. Only the stone figures were secured. The house was reconstructed from 1986 to 1996.
use
After its completion in 1752, the building was the city residence of Prince Dietrich . After his death in 1769, the building became the property of Prince Franz . In 1777 this part of the palace made available to the Philanthropinum . From 1780 to 1793 the school used the entire palace. Thereafter, Prince Dietrich's sister, Princess Henriette Amalie , moved in for a year . After her death, the building housed the Amalienstiftung named after her. Their collection of paintings could only be placed on the upper floor after 1815. In 1927, after the paintings had been transferred to the newly built Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, the upper floor was also converted into apartments. The Palais Dietrich survived the Second World War almost unscathed as one of the few historical houses . After the war it was used as the location of the Hauptmann-Loeper-Gymnasium , which was renamed Goethe-Oberschule III and later the Philanthropinum . Due to a lack of space, the school moved out of the building in 1950, which was used as the House of German-Soviet Friendship until 1962 and as a company vocational school for Waggonbau Dessau from 1962 to 1972 . From October 7, 1972 to 1986, it was the Mayakovsky district youth club house for events and discos. In 1986 the Dessau City Library took over the building to take up the holdings of the former State Library, now the Scientific Library of the Anhalt State Library in Dessau . The main library of the state library is located in Palais Waldersee .
literature
- Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer, Hans-Joachim Krause and others: Saxony-Anhalt II: Dessau and Halle administrative districts. In: Dehio - Handbook of German Art Monuments. Munich 1999
- Martine Kreißler: 90 years of Anhalt State Library Dessau (PDF; 4.3 MB). In: Official Gazette of the City of Dessau-Roßlau, No. 3, March 2012, p. 1. Online at www.dessau.de, accessed on July 23, 2013.
- R. Küster, G. Glock: Facade renovation at the Palais Dietrich in Dessau . In: Bausanierung, 1997. Online at www.baufachinformation.de, accessed on July 23, 2013.
Web links
- History of the Scientific Library
- Entry on Palais Dietrich in the private database "Alle Burgen".
Individual evidence
- ^ Philanthropinum Dessau. Estate and prints. 3,125 sheets of the estate and 160 volumes of publications with 56,000 pages on 498 microfiches in a cassette. 1999, ISBN 3-89131-358-6 , online