Prussian house
The Preusssche Haus in Dresden was a classical building erected in 1825 , which was demolished in 1907 for the construction of the New Town Hall .
description
The three- story , smoothly plastered house on a high, grooved plinth was built on a rectangular floor plan. It had a front and rear facade with nine windows and side facades with five windows. The rear facade itself was divided in the middle with a three- branch risalit and had two low extensions on the plan of a horseshoe . The front facade itself was equally divided in the middle with a three windows risalit, the one of four Doric columns supported Altan was submitted.
Along with the Old Town Guard , the gatehouses at the Leipziger Tor , the Third Belvedere , the domed hall of Pillnitz Palace and the rebuilt Swan House by Woldemar Hermann, the house was one of the few classicist buildings in Dresden.
It is characterized as the " Biedermeier modification of Krubascius ' country house ", whereby the "classical forms are placed on a building that was in the tradition of baroque form feeling".
literature
- Fritz Löffler : The old Dresden - history of its buildings . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 .
- Volker Helas : Architecture in Dresden 1800–1900 . Verlag der Kunst Dresden GmbH, Dresden 1991, ISBN 3-364-00261-4 .
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 53 ″ N , 13 ° 44 ′ 28 ″ E