Prague line

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Prague row after the redevelopment
Prague row before redevelopment

The residential and commercial building on St. Petersburger Strasse 26-32 in Dresden , 240 meters in length and twelve floors, is known as Pragerzeile (the name from the 2000s, from the construction up to the 1990s simply residential line Prager Strasse ) one of the longest residential buildings in Germany and at the time of its construction was "the largest residential building in the GDR". It was built after Le Corbusier's model of the Unité d'Habitation . The skyscraper forms the eastern end of the ensemble built between 1965 and 1978 on Prager Strasse, which was destroyed in 1945, and as such is an example of GDR post-war modernism .

description

The building was constructed from 1965 to 1967 according to designs by the architects Kurt Haller , Manfred Arlt and Karl-Heinz Schulze in 5-Mp panel construction (Mp =  Megapond ) with a loggia facade and sandstone gables. The building consists of "five statically independent building parts" and was "like the hotel buildings opposite it [" Lilienstein "," Königstein "and" Bastei "] with twelve storeys".

The vertical mixed use of the building can be seen on the facade, among other things. The monolithic ground floor was divided into four shop groups and broken through by passageways to Prager Strasse. Offices with 2580 square meters of floor space were set up on the first floor, which is completely supported by pillars. 614 apartments were located on the nine subsequent floors with loggia scaffolding . A roof terrace completes the building. The color scheme of the house before the renovation in 2007 came from the 1990s. From the cellar of the row you have access to an underground car park to the west of the building; it is located below the ground level area between the row and the pavilion buildings on Prager Straße itself and has been classified as such for cost reasons.

After a high-rise fire in the 1970s, the easily inflammable balcony parapets made of corrugated cardboard were exchanged for PVC elements, but the line-like facade structure was initially maintained thanks to the uniform color scheme in green, until it gradually dissolved through individual replacement after damage due to different colors . The building had been in need of renovation since the 1990s, but for a number of years there was no interested party willing to take the economic risk of redesigning the not easy floor plan. In 2006, the Pragerzeile served as the backdrop for the Hochhaussinfonie , a live performance of the new setting of the silent film Battleship Potemkin by the Pet Shop Boys with the Dresden Symphony Orchestra from 2004. As part of Dresden's 800th anniversary celebration, the musicians played during the Performance in the balconies of the apartment block on Prager Straße.

The Prague row during redevelopment

The building was renovated in 2007. The construction work was carried out in several stages so that the first tenants were able to move into the renovated apartment, while tenants were still living in "old" apartments in another part. As a result of floor plans, 561 apartments were created: 143 one-room, 402 two-room, 12 three-room and 4 penthouse apartments with a loft character . Very different target groups are addressed with the new range of apartments, from simple student apartments to luxurious penthouse apartments. In St. Petersburger Straße 32, apartments were specially tailored to age-appropriate living, and the care of these is made possible by the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund through a rental accompanying contract.

The new facade design since 2007 is based on the modern in style and color patterns and adds new elements. The new powder-coated aluminum loggia scaffolding in light gray dominates the facade and with the new color scheme creates an "expressive graphic pattern" whose structure is punctually interrupted by the eye-catching city loggias. As tenants' meeting places, they bring daylight into the corridor areas and at the same time take on important functions in the house's fire protection concept.

The architects Knerer + Lang from Dresden and the client received the architecture prize Zukunft Wohnen 2009 in the category living in existing buildings for the renovation of the Pragerzeile .

literature

  • Walter May, Werner Pampel, Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979, p. 18.
  • Manfred Arlt: Wohnzeile Prager Straße, in: Deutsche Architektur Heft 4, year 1968, p. 232f.
  • best architects 09 by Tobias Schwarzer von Zinnobergruen GmbH (Hardcover - November 2008) ISBN 978-3-9811174-2-4

Web links

Commons : Prague Line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Thomas Topfstedt: Prager Strasse - an old urban burden? In: Architecture and urban planning of post-war modernism in Dresden . Sandstein, Dresden 2003, p. 22.
  2. ↑ a b c d competitionline: redevelopment of the Prague line  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.competitionline.de  
  3. ↑ May et al., No. 1 (c) Apartment house , Prager Str.
  4. ^ Carsten Lorenzen: Living in the first row. The residential and commercial building at St. Petersburger Strasse 26–32. Long residential row Prager Strasse (from an expert report) . In: Architecture and urban planning of post-war modernism in Dresden . Sandstein, Dresden 2003, p. 41.
  5. ^ According to Lorenzen before 2007 592 one- and two-room apartments. See Lorenzen, p. 41.
  6. ↑ GAGFAH GROUP: Press release from June 15, 2007 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gagfah.de
  7. ↑ GAGFAH GROUP: Special domiciles ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gagfah.de
  8. ↑ GAGFAH GROUP: Press release of December 17, 2007 ( Memento of the original of November 4, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gagfah.de
  9. ↑ GEALAN window systems: "Pragerzeile" press release in Dresden refurbished ( memento of the original from May 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gealan.de
  10. ↑ a b best architects: Pragerzeile
  11. ↑ www.knererlang.de - Prices accessed on May 31, 2011
  12. ↑ Architecture Prize Future Living 2009: Prize Winner

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 36.1 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 10 ″  E