Gerhart Potthoff Building

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Gerhart Potthoff Building, four-story wing (2009)
Gerhart Potthoff Building, three-storey wing (1952)
Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, students (1959)
Students in front of the Gerhart Potthoff Building (1959)
Impeller Fountain (2009)

The Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau is a building on Hettnerstrasse 1/3 in the Südvorstadt in Dresden . It houses the “Friedrich List” Faculty of Transport Science at the Technical University of Dresden .

The building, which was built in traditional construction with sandstone plaster facades, was created in the style of socialist classicism . Paintings by Wilhelm Lachnit decorate the interior.

history

The building should initially accommodate the planned Faculty of Transport Sciences at the Technical University of Dresden.

The foundation stone for the Hettnerstrasse 1 building was laid on April 20, 1951. The resistance fighter and senior president of the Volkskammer, Otto Buchwitz , gave a speech at the laying of the foundation stone . The GDR Transport Minister, Hans Reingruber , also attended the event. At that time there were still ruins around the building.

In April 1952, the first part of the building complex was handed over. On October 1, 1952, the university's own library moved into its (initially makeshift) rooms. After an interim move in April 1953, the move to the final premises followed in April 1954.

On January 15, 1955, a fresco created by the artists Alfred Hesse and Erich Gerlach was unveiled in the stairwell in front of the Audimax , showing the visit of President Wilhelm Pieck to Dresden.

The building was built until 1956 with a usable area of ​​7200 square meters based on designs by the architects Walter Henn , Horst Grabner and Hellmuth Francke. The complex consists of two wings, consisting of three and four-story teaching buildings. A lecture hall for 500 students is located in front of Fritz-Foerster-Platz . The lecture hall building has been designed with a "pronounced vertical facade structure in sandstone".

Until the opening of the university canteen on Reichenbachstrasse on October 1, 1960, the building also housed a food counter. In the basement of the lecture hall building there was a HO sales point in combination with a canteen until the fall of the Wall . In 1991 these rooms were converted into the privately run “U-Boot” cafeteria . In 2003 the Studentenwerk Dresden took over this cafeteria.

The building was named in 1993 after Gerhart Potthoff , Professor of Transportation Engineering. Until it was reintegrated into the TU Dresden as the Faculty of Transport Science in 1992, the building, alongside the current central building of the Dresden University of Technology and Economics on Friedrich-List-Platz , was the main building for the University of Transport .

From 1992 until the construction of the new auditorium center 1998 comprehensive with about 1,000 people auditorium of the University of the auditorium POT 81 formed the largest auditorium of the university. From 2011 to 2012 this lecture hall wing was renovated for a total of 4.3 million euros. The former library rooms were also expanded into work areas. Furthermore, on May 23, 2012, the U-Boot organic canteen was opened in renovated rooms. This is the first cafeteria in Germany with a purely organic-certified menu. With the renovation of the part of the building, most of the remaining library holdings were brought to the SLUB Dresden .

literature

  • Walter May, Werner Pampel, Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979.

Web links

Commons : Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c May et al., P. 54 No. 82 [University of Transportation]
  2. ↑ a b Charlotte Boden: The university library for the first five years of its existence . In: University of Transportation (ed.): Scientific journal . tape 5 , 1957, ISSN  0043-6844 , pp. 239-244 .
  3. ↑ a b c University of Transport "Friedrich List" (Ed.): 1952 - 1962: University of Transport "Friedrich List" in Dresden. Dresden, 1962, p. 18.
  4. ^ Founding dean of the Faculty of Transport Science "Friedrich List", G. Hertel (Ed.): Festschrift for the founding of the Faculty of Transport "Friedrich List" , pp. 15-29.
  5. ↑ 25 years University of Transport "Friedrich List" Dresden . 27-page commemorative publication, Dresden 1977, pp. 387–389.
  6. ↑ a b c Chronicle of the University of Transport “Friedrich List” Dresden. Part 1: March 6, 1952 - August 13, 1961. ( Scientific journal , ISSN  0043-6844 , special issue 5 ), pp. 8, 31, 86, 99.
  7. ↑ Markus Meichau: “U-Boot” surfaced again. In: Ad rem . April 16, 2003, p. 1 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Sächsische Zeitung January 7, 2010: "Large TU lecture hall in the Potthoff building is being renovated"
  9. ^ Studentenwerk Dresden: "Studentenwerk Dresden opens Germany's first organic canteen" , press release from May 23, 2012, accessed on August 3, 2012.

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '50.9 "  N , 13 ° 43' 41.2"  E