Palais Loß

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Dresden, Palais Loß, Kreuzstrasse No. 10, before the demolition in 1905
Dresden, Palais Loß, Kreuzstrasse No. 10, portal.

The Palais Loß (also Gräflich Loss'sches Palais ) was built in 1773 based on designs by the architect Johann Gottfried Kuntsch at Kreuzstrasse 10 in Dresden. The building, which was later used as an embassy and city administration building, was demolished in 1905 for the new construction of the Dresden City Hall .

history

In the 16th century, the property was owned by the elector's valet and Dresden mayor Bastian Kröß . He had the existing building combined with the neighboring house and converted into a representative residence. Around 1665 the house passed to Mrs. Maria von Klengel, wife of the builder Wolf Caspar von Klengel . In 1773 the new owner of the property, the Electoral Saxon cabinet minister Johann Adolf von Loß , had a new building built in the Baroque style on the same site. From then on, this was called the Graflich Loss'sches Palais and was temporarily the seat of the Saxon ambassador Baron Jean-Charles de Serra, who met Napoleon here on December 14, 1812 for talks. From 1888 it served as a town house administrative tasks. From 1891 as the seat of the Dresden City Museum .

Building description

According to Stefan Hertzig's description , the building was eleven axes wide and four storeys high. The facade showed a strict system of plastered pilaster strips and recessed mirrors. On the first floor there were two portals with arched ends, which showed flower chain decorations on their keystones. According to Cornelius Gurlitt , Kuntsch's original plans were in the collection of King Friedrich Augusts, No. 97369 until 1945. Fritz Löffler attributes the elaborate rococo carving of the door to the wood sculptor Joseph Deibel . Dassdorf , Hasche and Lehninger noticed the noble simplicity and lack of decoration of the facade as well as the comfortable and "completely in the new taste" equipped system inside.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Kramm: The Mayors of Dresden 1549-1806 , in: Studies on the Upper Classes of Central German Cities in the 16th Century, Central German Research, Volume 87, Verlag Böhlau Cologne / Vienna, 1981, p. 716.
  2. ↑ a b Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony . Volume 23: City of Dresden, Part 2. In Commission at CC Meinhold & Söhne, Dresden 1903, pp. 709–710 (Fig. Portal).
  3. ^ Karlheinz Blaschke: History of the City of Dresden , Volume 3, Verlag Theiss, Dresden, 2006, ISBN 978-3-80621-928-9 , p. 159
  4. ^ Stefan Hertzig: The late Baroque town house in Dresden 1738–1790 . Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , pp. 148-150 .
  5. ^ Stefan Hertzig: Johann Gottfried Kuntsch . In: ders .: The late Baroque town house in Dresden 1738–1790 . Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , pp. 241 .
  6. ^ Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden - history of its buildings . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1984, p.  249, 417 .
  7. ↑ G. Beutel: Strange Houses in III. Kreuzstrasse 10 (Graflich Loss'sches Palais). In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , 4 (1893), p. 101.

literature

  • G. Bag: Strange Houses in III. Kreuzstrasse 10 (Graflich Loss'sches Palais). In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , 4 (1893), pp. 99-103.


Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 53 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 28 ″  E