Palais Vitzthum-Schönburg
The Palais Vitzthum-Schönburg was a palace on the corner of Moritzstraße 19 and Badergasse in Dresden .
history
The palace was built before 1756. It was badly damaged in the Prussian bombardment in 1760 and rebuilt in 1774 according to plans by Gottlob August Hölzer . In 1885 the palace was demolished when König-Johann-Strasse broke through . According to Fritz Löffler, the building was probably designed by Julius Heinrich Schwarze . Löffler justified this ascription with the "close relationship to the Paris hotel style ". An oval ballroom, like the one owned by the Vitzthum-Schönburg Palace , was introduced in Dresden with Schwarzes Hauptwerk, the Moszyńska Palace , built in 1742 .
In 1774, Count Friedrich August Vitzthum von Eckstädt († 1803) acquired the palace, and later the building came into the possession of the Princely Schönburg House .
Building description
Interior
In the middle was an entrance hall that led to an oval hall, which in turn was joined by two oval staircases. Gurlitt noted that the “floor plan of the first floor [...] had a very different room arrangement of great artistic delicacy from the one otherwise usual in Dresden”, with the oval anteroom and the two equally oval staircases “reminiscent of Italian models”. The right staircase only led to the main floor, while the upper floors could only be reached via the left stairwell. The main axis of the dining room was above the vestibule.
Exterior
The building was three and a half stories high and divided into nine axes. The ground floor and the mezzanine floor above were combined with plaster bands. The facades were structured on the two upper floors by Corinthian colossal pilasters . All the parapets on the second floor were decorated with flower chains and festoons , some of which were even decorated with portrait medallions. The heavy entablature was cut with teeth in the uppermost cornice. The three central axes were particularly emphasized in the Dresden Rococo style , so the three-axis central projection above the arched windows of the main floor was decorated with reliefs. A console-supported balcony with richly decorated lattice was placed in front of the central projection. Stefan Hertzig sees an eclecticism here , a mixture of classicism, baroque and rococo:
"Once again this building showed the whole ambivalence of the epoch ... Interestingly, however, these classifying elements stood on an equal footing with forms that were still clearly assigned to the Dresden Baroque or Rococo style."
Individual evidence
- ^ Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden - history of its buildings . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 , p. 250 .
- ^ Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden - history of its buildings . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 , p. 246 .
- ↑ a b c d 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, p. 591 f. on-line
- ^ A b 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. 150 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 59.5 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 28.3" E