Palais Marienstraße 24

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The Palais Marienstraße 24 (also: Houpsches Haus) was a city ​​palace built by Gottfried Semper in 1841 at Marienstraße 24 in Dresden . It was one of the most beautiful works of Semper. The palace was destroyed in the air raids on Dresden in 1945.

concept

The city palace was designed as a four-story row house. The facade of the house had a front length that took up eleven window axes. Semper had installed a round arch portal in the middle of the facade. The facade showed arched windows at ground level, while the first and second floors showed flat window roofs. The floors were separated from one another by cornices. While the ground floor was ashlar, the first and second floors consisted of interlocking sandstones. The third floor had a pilaster arrangement .

literature

  • Volker Helas: Architecture in Dresden 1800-1900 . Verlag der Kunst Dresden GmbH, Dresden 1991, ISBN 3-364-00261-4 .
  • Fritz Löffler: The old Dresden - history of its buildings . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Löffler, p. 477 (Semper, Gottfried […] Houpesches Haus Marienstraße, 1841 […])
  2. ↑ Helas / Peltz, p. 155 [Marienstraße 24 (Houpsche's house). 1841 by G. Semper]

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '52 "  N , 13 ° 43' 59"  E