Palaisplatz
| Palaisplatz | |
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 The Japanese Palace on Palaisplatz |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Dresden |
| District | Inner New Town |
| Created | 1722-1732 |
| Newly designed | from 1945 |
| Confluent streets | Kleine Marienbrücke , Robert-Blum-Strasse, Hainstrasse, Heinrichstrasse, Grosse Meißner Strasse |
| Buildings | Japanese Palace , Brandversicherungsanstalt , Akzisehaus , Bellevue |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , public transport , car traffic |
| Space design | Fountain |
The Palaisplatz is a central, spacious square in Dresden on the northern side of the Elbe in the Innere Neustadt district . It was created in connection with Königstrasse , which leads from it to Albertplatz .
Surname
The square is named after the Japanese Palace . After it had already been called “Palaisplatz” since 1825, it was renamed “Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz” after the new head of state on the occasion of the establishment of the German Empire in 1871 , and from the 1920s onwards it was called “Wilhelmplatz”. From 1945 to 1991 it was called "Karl-Marx-Platz" in memory of Marx , who lived in the adjacent hotel "Stadt Coburg" in 1874.
Development and design
The defining element of the square is the Japanese Palace on its southwest side, which stands at the end of the Königstrasse , which acts as a visual axis . Erected in its present form around 1730, it now serves as an exhibition building for several Dresden museums , including the Ethnographic Museum .
The "Leipzig Gate" or "White Gate" designed by Johann Georg Maximilian von Fürstenhoff , part of the Dresden fortifications in Altendresden on the northwest side of the square, was demolished in 1817. At this point Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer built two classic gatehouses in connection with the "excise wall " . Both were damaged during the air raids on Dresden in February 1945. The eastern one was rebuilt and used as a registry office. The ruins of the western one were torn down in 1969 to make room for the expansion of the Große Meißner Straße. The buildings on the south and east sides of the square were also destroyed during the air raids. These included the hotel "To the three golden palm branches", which was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's stay in 1790 , as well as the Racknitz Palace at Palaisplatz 10, which the Court Marshal Joseph Friedrich had built around 1780 from the von Racknitz family .
In the north of the square is the fire insurance institute built by Oswald Haenel in 1899 (Palaisplatz 2a – 2d).
After 1945 the east side of the square was closed by a block of flats and the Hotel Bellevue .
Opposite the Japanese Palace is a round fountain with an inner diameter of 21.6 meters, which was built in 1898. The edge of the pool is made of granite. 40 small fountains are arranged around a 10 meter high fountain. In 1991 and 1992 the well was reconstructed and in 2006 it was sealed again. It lies in the center of the central, triangular and paved area of the Palaisplatz, which is extended to the north towards the Akzisehaus by an unsealed, tree-lined park. The Dresden Carnevals Club erected a fool's memorial there on November 11, 1999 and next to it planted the carnival oak, which is one of the memorial trees in Dresden .
At the entrance to the Palaisgarten on the west side of the square, there was a memorial to the Saxon King Friedrich August I from 1929 to 2007. This memorial was originally in the Zwinger and was later moved to Palaisplatz. In May 2008 it was ceremoniously placed on the Schloßplatz on the plinth of the no longer existing King Albert monument in front of the Saxon Ständehaus , after it had been renovated since 2007 with funds from private donors and the city.
The fragmentation of the square as well as the neighboring Neustädter Markt by the B 170 is criticized from an urban planning point of view.
Local public transport
For decades, tram lines from Heinrichstrasse ran across Palaisplatz from Hauptstrasse in the direction of Leipziger Torhäuser and on to Mickten. Until the city was destroyed, there was also a rail connection on the northern edge of the square through Hainstraße towards Neustadt station. However, the tracks were largely expanded and used for other purposes as early as the late 1940s for the purpose of mining. Until the line reform of 1968, lines 14 and 15 were run from Heinrichstrasse (or Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse) after World War II, and since 1968 lines 4 and 5. With the breakthrough in Grosse Meißner Strasse from Neustädter Markt zum Palaisplatz, the tram was now taken to the southern edge of the square and the route in the direction of Heinrichstrasse was abandoned. Lines 4 and 9 are currently operating here.
literature
- Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
- Art in public space . Dresden Cultural Office, Dresden 1996.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ neumarkt-dresden.de ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 37 ″ N , 13 ° 44 ′ 20 ″ E