Palais Wackerbarth
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The Palais Wackerbarth in Dresden Neustadt was a knight academy and later the official seat of the Saxon monument preservation. It was located east of the main street on Beaumontplatz, which is no longer preserved, between the Neustädter Markthalle and the Sarrasani circus . The Ritterstrasse south of the market hall still reminds of this by name.
history
The palace was built in 1728 as a knight academy for August Christoph von Wackerbarth based on designs by Johann Christoph Knöffel . In the Second World War damaged the ruins 1962/1963 was canceled.
At the top of the building in the middle window axis between the first and second floors there was a medallion with the portrait of Augustus the Strong by Johann Benjamin Thomae (1728). It was salvaged from being demolished and is now located on the rebuilt Johanneum in the old town.
description
The nine-axis front building showed a basement with plaster strips. Above it rose two upper floors, the individual axes of which were combined by pilaster strips . The middle risalit had three strands and was divided on the sides by double pilaster strips and in the central axis by a simple arched portal, arched windows on the first and arched windows on the second floor. Inside there was a double-barreled, semicircular staircase that led to the second floor.
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Löffler, p. 239.
literature
- Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden. History of his buildings. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 , pp. 69, 120, 238, 239, 247, 425.
Web links
- Palais Wackerbarth at Sachsens-Schlösser.de