Concrete timeline

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Original location of the Museum Betonzeitschiene

The Museum Betonzeitschiene in Dresden is an open-air museum about the history of urban architecture on the subject of large panel construction . However, the installation is not currently set up.

Location

The museum is located in the central Johannstadt district . First it was installed on the eastern edge of a large industrial wasteland, the former VEB Kommunales Plattenwerk. It was located on the corner of Gerok and Arnoldstrasse in the immediate vicinity of the Trinitatisfriedhof , only a few kilometers east of the inner old town . The museum used the entrance area of ​​the former slab factory including the gatekeeper's and weighing house and various former storage areas. In 2007 the installations had to be dismantled and moved to a municipal property, where they have been stored ever since. This is only 200 meters further west at the other end of the wasteland, for example on the historical course of the former Stephanienstraße.

exhibition

The warehouse of the plate factory in the 1950s

All exhibits were parts of the former VEB Plattenwerk Johannstadt, which were saved from being transported away. The main exhibits included the former weighing house, the rails of the old factory railway and a green gravel silo ; However, since they are or were permanently installed in the site that was used until 2007, they can no longer be regarded as museum components. The exhibits include an original lamp and 50 tons of construction material, including crushed brick , rebar mat , boards and other concrete fragments, stones and ceramic tiles , together with 15 different colors. The exhibition was intended to make development processes during the industrialization of the building industry visible in an alternative way , but also to illustrate the history of Dresden and in particular of Johannstadt. Sandstone fragments are reminiscent of the Carolahaus that used to be on the slab factory site.

history

The Carolahaus of the Albertverein , which opened in 1878, was initially located on the later museum grounds . During the Nazi era, the hospital was used as an SA school and fell victim to the air raids on Dresden in February 1945. After its demolition, one of the first panel plants in the GDR was built in its place in 1958, producing precast concrete parts for socialist housing construction on the seven-hectare site . To do this, it recycled thousands of tons of rubble from the buildings in Dresden's city center, which had been destroyed in 1945, and reused them as part of the panels. Until its closure in 1990/91, the panel factory produced material for several 10,000 new apartments in Dresden, Riesa and Coswig , most recently specializing in exterior wall panels.

After the turning-related closure, the factory premises fell into disrepair for more than a decade. A citizens' initiative was founded around the year 2000 and collected more than 3000 signatures for the speedy demolition of the former panel plant. The traffic expansion of Arnoldstrasse, which had only been used as a footpath and cycle path since the Second World War , went hand in hand with the site clearance, which began in 2001. In contrast, members of the “IG Platte” association tried to preserve at least parts of the record production. As early as the mid-1990s, the idea of ​​setting up a museum arose in their ranks, since the relevant section of Dresden's urban history is quite present in the cityscape. In addition to the Johannstädter, there are several other contiguous prefabricated building areas in Dresden, including in Gorbitz , Prohlis , Strehlen and Zschertnitz . Before and during the demolition work, the association members secured around 50 tons of building material, the weighing house, several concrete walls and a gravel silo that had meanwhile grown over .

During the expansion of the skate park, the cast floor slabs of the concrete timeline, some of which were marked with the year, were integrated into the system.

The Irish architect Ruairí O'Brien , whose group of architects had already designed the Erich Kästner Museum in Dresden in 1999 , also designed the Museum Betonzeitschiene in 2002. The artificial name “concrete timeline” coined by O'Brien refers to the property of concrete to harden after a short period of malleability and is a metaphorical symbol for the fact that individuals in society use moments of changeability to make independent decisions and act, otherwise they will these decisions are made by others. It was supplemented by a park with legal graffiti areas , ball game fields, mountain bike hills and a skate park ; its construction costs of 90,000 euros were financed through a funding program. After two years of planning and construction, it was opened as one of the first museums of its kind ever on July 10, 2004 as part of the Dresden Museum Summer Night. The museum was located on the edge of a five-hectare property owned by a Berlin real estate company that concluded a usage contract with the city of Dresden that ran until 2005. After it expired, the negotiations on an extension did not bring any result, so the property owner had the site cleared in August 2007. Since then, the museum parts have been stored on a neighboring urban property. Efforts to reinstall the museum in 2008 failed.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Carolahaus. In: Dresdner-Stadtteile.de. Retrieved April 4, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Tanja Rupprecht-Becker: Prefabricated buildings in a different light. Literary letter. In: The time . 2005, accessed April 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ "Fick cell with hot water connection": Plattenbau museum in Dresden. n-tv , July 8, 2004, accessed April 4, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Maintaining the building culture: the “Betonzeitschiene” panel building museum. Ruairí O'Brien, accessed April 4, 2017 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 12 ″  N , 13 ° 46 ′ 8 ″  E