Palace of the Secondary School

This article describes the former Palais des Chevalier de Saxe in the Dresden Blüherpark. For the building on the Brühlsche Terrasse, see SECONDOGENITURE (Dresden) .

Location in the city map by Heinrich Lesch, 1828

" Prince Anton 's Garden Palace" ~ 1825

The palace ~ 1900

Ground floor plan of Prince George's Palace

Ground plan of the floor of Prince George's Palace

The Palais der Secondogenitur (also Prinz-Georg-Palais , Palais Zinzendorffstraße or also Prinzenpalais ) was a residential palace in the park of the Secondogenitur , part of today's Blüherpark in Dresden . It was at Langen Gasse 24, which later became Zinzendorffstrasse 4.

building

Friedrich August Krubsacius built it from 1764 to 1770 for the illegitimate son Friedrich August II , the Chevalier de Saxe Johann Georg . The originally one-story building had a tower structure, a pleasure palace and a triangular gable. Johann Gottfried Knöffler created the figure decorations. Long outbuildings, which housed utility and functional rooms, were connected directly to the side of the palace. The palace already showed transition features from Rococo to Classicism . Inside, however, it was still kept in the Rococo style. From 1781 to 1927 it was the residence of the second-born Wettin prince and his family. In 1783, Johann August Giesel redesigned the interior in the classicism style. From 1855 to 1857, Hermann Nicolai rebuilt the palace, increasing it by one floor and redesigning the facades. In the years 1867 and 1878/79 the wing structures were expanded.

Development after 1927

Hercules and Megara at their current location at the Hygiene Museum

In 1927 the palace came into the possession of the city of Dresden. It burned down during the air raids on Dresden in February 1945 and the ruins were demolished in 1951.

Two historical sandstone vases, which were made around 1750, were set up in the Bürgerwiese . The larger-than-life seated sandstone figures of Hercules and Megara were placed in the medicinal herb and plant garden south of the Hygiene Museum .

Zinzendorffstrasse

The palace was on Zinzendorffstrasse, a dead-end street running north from Bürgerwiese to near Lingnerallee. The street has been named after the Zinzendorff family since 1892, whose property was adjacent to the street. Originally the street was the southern part of the Neue Gasse, which ran between "Pillnitzer Straße" and Bürgerwiese. In the 17th century it was called "Lange Gasse" and in 1863 it was renamed "Lange Straße".

literature

• Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
• Art in public space . Information brochure of the state capital Dresden, December 1996.

Web links

• Barbare Bechter: From the Rechenberg Gardens to the Blüherpark. in: Garden Art 17 (2005)

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 35.7 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 33.2"  E