Palais Cape Lord
The Palais Kap-herr was built in 1872/1874 in the neo-renaissance style by Bernhard Schreiber for the Kap-herr family in the form of the Semper School and was located at Parkstrasse 7 in Dresden . Later the palace came to the House of Wettin (royal palace). In 1945 the palace burned down and was removed from 1955–1959. Today there are two 16-storey student residences on the area of the property.
description
General
The building is described by Helas as the most stately villa next to Palais Oppenheim . It was a two-storey building, erected on a rectangular floor plan, covered with a flat hipped roof. However, according to Helas, its architecture was not designed purely in the sense of the High Renaissance, but each facade was stylized differently. In his opinion, the frequent use of or overloading with motifs that increase meaning led to an eclectic appearance of the building.
Northern main facade facing Parkstrasse
The main facade to Parkstrasse was designed in the form of a city palace and had a front length of 9 window axes . Each side risalit contained a window axis, so that the actual facade front in between was seven-axis.
The building rested on a rustified base. Above it rose a 2 meter high ground floor, which had been clad with rustication and in which the windows were framed by smooth walls and set back. A triglyphic cornice formed the upper end of the ground floor. The windows on the upper floor were framed by an aedicule , consisting of Ionic three-quarter columns, with entablature resting on them, alternating with segmented or triangular gables as window canopies .
In front of the main facade was an arbor under which the driveway led. This rested on coupled columns or pillars. The main facade was modeled on city palaces in Italy, such as the Palazzo Farnese in Rome or the Palazzo Pandolfini in Florence, the same models as the Palais Oppenheim on Bürgerwiese 5–7.
Eastern side facade facing Gellertstrasse
The facade on Gellertstrasse took up elements of the villa architecture and, like the main facade on Parkstrasse, had two corner projections, each with a window axis. In front of both risalits on the side facade there were two-story loggias that were designed as bay windows on the ground floor. Above these lateral loggias there were two cores on the upper floor, each bearing a flat gable. The façade at ground level between the corner projections was five-winged, on the first floor it was three-winged. While the windows on the ground floor, like those on Parkstrasse, were designed as round arches, the three round arched windows on the upper floor were structured by columns and pilasters and combined by an architrave (similar to the facade of the Dresden Albert Theater ).
West side facade
The western side facade also adopted the villa style with an oriel subdivision.
Interior
Inside was a central octagonal room on the upper floor that was used as a ballroom. Like the walls of the vestibule, it was clad with stucco marble (stucco lustro), other rooms had elaborate wood paneling. The steps, balustrades and the columns in the upper vestibule were made of marble.
Garden design
The ground plan of the property shows an elaborate garden design, which could be entered from a large flight of stairs from the rear of the building. Further details are currently not known (garden designer, equipment, etc.).
history
Until 1912 the building housed offices of the Royal Prussian Legation . In March Friedrich August III bought. the building for his son, Crown Prince Georg of Saxony . After renovations, he lived in the palace.
After the abdication of the king in 1918 and as part of the regulation of royal property, the palace came into the possession of the newly formed Free State of Saxony and was used as an exhibition building after 1920. From 1925 to 1931 it housed the new department of the Dresden Gemäldegalerie.
As a result of the air raids on Dresden , the palace burned down in 1945. On August 28, 1952, the preservation authorities learned that demolition work had started on the rear of the house. Thereupon Hans Nadler from the monument office immediately protested. In his letter, Nadler referred to the use of the picture gallery, some of which had been exhibited here before the Second World War, and referred to a memorandum of the Kulturbund in which the Palais Kap-herr had to be preserved. The Kulturbund wanted the reconstruction of the neo-renaissance building, also because an exhibition was already planned there. Nadler also criticized the fact that demolition work on listed buildings in Dresden was carried out without first notifying the State Monuments Office . Because “... The architecture of the building is characterized by the best proportions and excellent work through of all architectural details. In the forms of the Italian Renaissance, the Palais undoubtedly signifies a characteristic architectural monument, which in the architectural language of the Semper School is one of the very few monuments of this time still existing in Dresden, after the Oppenheim Palais by Gottfried Semper and the important house at Beuststrasse 1 were canceled by Hermann Nicolai ”.
Nevertheless, on April 19, 1955, the western part of the palace was blown up without informing the State Monuments Office. Since the ruin was not secured, the remaining torso finally “posed a threat to children playing”: In October 1959 the rest of the building was blown up for this reason.
Reuse
In the 1960s, two 16-storey student dormitories in prefabricated construction were built on the site. Otherwise there are parking spaces, lawns and bushes on the property. Nothing reminds of the former palace.
literature
- Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden - history of its buildings . EASeemann, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 .
- Volker Helas : Architecture in Dresden 1800–1900 . Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, Wiesbaden 1986, ISBN 3-528-18696-8 .
- Matthias Lerm : Farewell to old Dresden - Loss of historical building fabric after 1945, 2nd, slightly revised edition . Hinstorff, Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-356-00876-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helas, p. 157.
- ↑ Helas, p. 51.
- ↑ Helas, pp. 157–158 [Palais Kap-herr. 1872/1874 by Schreiber] and Löffler, p. 385, p. 406, p. 408, p. 496, image no. 503 (Palais Kap-herr, Parkstraße 7, B.Schreiber, 1872 to 1874, burnt out in 1945, broken off in 1957 (here incorrect information from Löffler: 1959, see Lerm))
- ↑ a b Helas, p. 158.
- ^ Dresdner Anzeiger , March 28, 1912
- ^ Entry in Folke Stimmel u. a .: City Lexicon Dresden. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden, Basel 1994, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 , p. 308.
- ↑ Lerm, pp. 157-159.
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 17 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 42" E