Postplatz (Dresden)
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 Aerial view of the Zwinger and Postplatz (lower half of the picture) during its redesign in 2005 |
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| place | Dresden |
| District | Inner old town |
| Created | 19th century |
| Newly designed | since April 2005 |
| Hist. Names | Wilsdruffer Thorplatz |
| Confluent streets | Ostra-Allee , Sophienstrasse , Theaterstrasse, Schweriner Strasse, Freiberger Strasse , Annenstrasse, Marienstrasse , Wallstrasse, Wilsdruffer Strasse , |
| Buildings | Playhouse , Zwinger , Wilsdruffer Kubus , Altmarkt-Galerie |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , public transport , car traffic |
The Postplatz (to 1865 Wilsdruffer T (h) orplatz after the gate ) is a central place in Dresden and important transport hub, especially for public transport . It is located in the old town not far from the Zwinger .
Location and development
Sophienstrasse , Wilsdruffer Strasse , Wallstrasse , Marienstrasse , Annenstrasse , Schweriner Strasse and Ostra-Allee are star-shaped from Postplatz . The square itself is undeveloped except for a listed former service pavilion of the Dresden transport company , which is called the cheese bell because of its appearance and is now used as a café. Smaller buildings on the edge of the square were demolished in the course of the last redesign.
The Dresdner Schauspielhaus (“Big House”) is closest to the Postplatz , opposite the Zwingerteich and the Kronentor of the Zwinger . The cholera fountain , which is offset from the Postplatz, stands across Sophienstrasse . Behind it, on the site of the former Sophienkirche , stands the so-called brush . To the east, on Wilsdruffer Strasse , stood the HO restaurant "Am Zwinger" , which had been closed for a long time and was popularly known simply as the feeding cube . The Wilsdruffer cube is now in the same place . Opposite it was the Lindehaus . The Linde neon sign on the roof was always easy to recognize ; in the GDR the Institute for Chemical Plants advertised in the same place . In 2009 the Lindehaus was demolished for the extension of the Altmarkt-Galerie .
At the southwest corner there are still smaller parts of the building and foundation walls from the former main post office, which was damaged in the air raids in 1945 and which was largely demolished during the GDR era. The foundation walls today, with their bricked-up cellar windows, form the approximately two-meter-high property walls of the newly built post office building inside. To the west, Deutsche Post built a new telecommunications center in the 1980s . Since 2008, a memorial created by the artist Heidemarie Dreßel has been commemorating the popular uprising of June 17, 1953 . It consists of the chain of a T-34 tank, a type of tank that Soviet soldiers also used in Dresden to stop the demonstrators. The telecommunications building was sold by Telekom; its demolition is planned in favor of a new residential and commercial building, which will also extend to the open space in front of the tank chain memorial.
Tram junction
The “Postplatz” stop is one of the most important transport hubs on the Dresden tram network . Seven of the total of twelve tram lines run here with lines 1 , 2 , 4 , 8 , 9 , 11 and 12 , as well as bus line 75 , and during night traffic as part of the Postplatz meeting, tram line 7 and bus line 62 as well as regional night traffic (line 360 ).
The railways run from here essentially in four directions. To the north over the Marienbrücke and Augustusbrücke , to the east over the Wilsdruffer Straße , to the south to the Prager Straße and to the west to the Bahnhof Mitte or the Freiberger Straße stop. A total of five routes branch off from Postplatz, which made the design of the stops very difficult and was only simplified in 2006 by a relocated main stop. At the first intersection of Freiberger Strasse, a sixth route branches off via Hertha-Lindner-Strasse to Schweriner Strasse.
The Postplatz is one of the most important transfer points in Dresden, especially because of the connection to the bus lines. But you can also comfortably walk the old town from here. In 2015, 38,340 passengers got on and off at the bus stop on weekdays.
Postplatz meeting
This role becomes even more important in night traffic. In Dresden there are no night lines as in other cities, but most of the lines continue to run in a similar route continuously (until 0:45 a.m. half-hourly, then every hour, on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays all of them after 1:15 a.m. half a hour). In order to guarantee connections, the timetables of the tram and bus lines passing the Postplatz were timed so that they “ meet ” at the stops at certain times of the day . As a rule, consideration is given to small delays of individual railways.
history
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The Postplatz is located on the site of one of the main gates of the old Dresden fortifications . Until the 19th century, the Wilsdruffer Gasse coming from the Altmarkt led to the Wilsdruffer Tor , which originally gave the Wilsdruffer Thorplatz its name. To the west of it, the Wilsdruffer suburb was built outside of the city fortifications . The square was created at the beginning of the 19th century after the fortifications and backfilling of the ditch in front of it were razed. In this way, the Antonsplatz was built further south in the same period .
After the post office in Landhausstrasse became too small, the City Planning Director Albert Geutebrück built a new, prestigious post office south of the square in 1830–1832 . For logistical reasons, the rear facade of the post office on Antonsplatz soon became the new front of the house, and a few years later the first expansion took place. The square, previously named after a city gate that no longer exists, was renamed Postplatz in 1865 . The post office area was expanded to the west in the following decades: the main post office building was erected on Annenstrasse in 1876–1881, and a new building for the Dresden 1 post office took place in 1901–1906.
In 1865 Robert Bernhardt founded his fashion store in the Wilsdruffer suburb. Entering from the entrance one reached a spacious inner courtyard, roofed with a huge glass dome. With a length of 16 meters and a span of 10 meters. A spacious staircase led to the sales aisles, on the landing of which there was a fountain, and to the left and right of the staircase were candelabra
At the end of the 19th century, the square was given an important position in Dresden's city traffic. The cholera fountain that was on the square had to be relocated in 1891 as it interfered with the expansion of the square. In 1895, as in the present, six tram lines branched off from the square.
In 1911 the Palace Hotel Weber was built on the corner plot of Ostra-Allee / Postplatz in Dresden based on a design by the architects Lossow & Kühne . The building, which was partially damaged in the Second World War, was demolished against the protest of the Dresden population in 1968. It was the architectural counterpart of the New Royal Theater on the corner of Ostra-Allee and Theaterstrasse, built in 1912/1913 by William Lossow and his son-in-law Max Hans Kühne in the neo- baroque and art nouveau style . Unlike the palace hotel, this was rebuilt and reopened in autumn 1948.
In 1991 the city launched a competition to redesign the square. The winning design was made by the architect and town planner Joachim Schürmann . Since other transport hubs such as Wiener Platz and Könneritzstrasse were also being rebuilt, the construction project was postponed for more than ten years.
As of April 2005, the Postplatz was extensively rebuilt and, as a result, it was once again accessible by car in several directions. Above all, however, the stop situation changed. The 16 individual stops on the square were combined into two long double stops on two adjacent streets ( Wilsdruffer Straße and Wallstraße ). The track routes have also been changed, since then the connection to the south to Prager Straße is no longer via Marienstraße, but via Wallstraße, which runs parallel to it (the track loop between the two streets was retained). The trains from Freiberger Strasse no longer have to turn onto Schweriner Strasse, but head straight for Postplatz - due to a construction project, however, the direct connection from Schweriner Strasse to Postplatz was no longer available.
The architectural quality of the butterfly- shaped central bus stop, which was completed in 2006, was controversial in the state capital during construction, especially because of the huge monolith within sight of the Zwinger . The Wilsdruffer Kubus , created in 2008, was also criticized by architects and citizens of the city, especially because of the “exchangeable facade” of the new building, which has no relation to the historical surroundings of the building.
As a result of the extensive changes in the construction method towards an area almost without green spaces or trees according to the new concept of inner-city development, the climate also changed.
A protest action with toilet china on April 1, 2009 was a big local topic and led to a change of opinion regarding the greening of the inner city. In August 2009, raised beds were used to create 500 square meters of green space on the pavement of Postplatz. The pavement was not removed, so that funds called up for the paving did not have to be repaid.
Since the beginning of 2016, there has been more construction at Postplatz. Within the next few years, all vacant lots will be closed by new buildings directly on the site and in the vicinity. In the scope of these construction measures, more than 1000 apartments will be built in Dresden city center. From 2016 to 2019 a new residential and commercial building was built on the site of the former post office directorate. The old building was supplemented by two new buildings on the right and left.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Hultsch (Ed.): Wars, Resistance, Frauenkirche . ISBN 978-3-7448-6762-7 , pp. 84 ff . ; Robert Bernhardt. A short history of the department store of the same name on Dresden Postplatz @ starkes-dresden.de (web.archive.org) by Matthias Starke
- ↑ A cube goes, a cube comes. Retrieved December 6, 2012 .
- ↑ This can be seen in the fact that the inner city no longer cools down properly at night, even at night. The evening temperatures at Postplatz in summer were 6.5 degrees higher than in the Great Garden. Bettina Klemm: Too few trees after clear cutting in Dresden's city center . Sächsische Zeitung [online], March 23, 2009, accessed July 31, 2009.
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^ René Pönitz: Of public toilets and carpet beating bars. May 1, 2009, accessed September 29, 2013 .
Brigitte Holland: Raised beds make the stone Postplatz look pretty on www.meindresden.info, August 11, 2009, accessed on December 2, 2013, although such stories are important for public opinion, they are usually not included in the city chronicle
- ↑ Denni Klein: 500 square meters of green for the stone Postplatz Sächsische Zeitung, August 6, 2009, accessed on December 2, 2013.
- ↑ DNN-Online: Forever unfinished, but always full of life: The Dresdner Postplatz. Retrieved November 8, 2017 .
- ^ CG Gruppe AG: Residence at Postplatz. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
Web links
- The Postplatz through the ages @ postplatz.starkes-dresden.de (web.archive.org) by Matthias Starke
- Robert Bernhardt. A short history of the department store of the same name on Dresden Postplatz @ starkes-dresden.de (web.archive.org) by Matthias Starke
- Overview of the construction projects at Dresdner Postplatz (SZ, January 2018)
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '4.3 " N , 13 ° 43' 59.8" E