Town hall Bühlau
The town hall of Bühlau existed from 1899 to 1945 as the municipal office of the independent municipality of Bühlau in the northeast of Dresden . The corner building planned by the architect Paul Winkler on Bautzner Land- / Neukircher Strasse (address 2019: Bautzner Landstrasse 130) was built in 1898/1899. After Bühlau was incorporated into Dresden in 1921, it was used as an administration building, and in 1947 a branch of the city library moved into the rooms of the former Ratskeller , which it still uses now (as of 2019). Since the renovation, it has been a residential building with health care facilities.
history
Bühlau was first mentioned in a document in 1349 in the feudal book of Frederick the Strict as "Bele". The place Bühlau belonged to the Blasewitz landlord Nikolaus Karras , later it was subordinate to the feudal lords of the Helfenberg manor . In addition to the old street village along Quohrener Strasse, which has since been referred to as Oberdorf, a community of cottagers came to the Bautzner Landstrasse by the 16th century at the latest . Over the centuries, the individual Bühlau districts and the neighboring Quohren grew closer and closer together. In 1839 they were united to form the rural community "Bühlau with Quohren". In the late 19th century, numerous residential and commercial buildings were built in Neubühlau, mainly along Bautzner Landstrasse.
On the basis of the Saxon rural community order of 1838 , community leaders and community committees, i.e. their own community administration, required for the first time an independent community administration for "Bühlau with Quohren" (as the newly formed community was called) in 1839 with the simultaneous unification of Bühlau and Quohren As was customary at the time, it was mainly housed in the rooms of the respective community council. The growing number of inhabitants and the growing number of administrative tasks finally required the construction of an independent municipal office towards the end of the 19th century . The Loschwitz architect Paul Winkler was commissioned with the planning. In addition to the rooms for the mayor and municipal administration, he also planned a “ council cellar ” as well as an adjoining town hall garden in which up to 1000 people could be entertained. The corresponding service apartments were also provided in the house.
The house was used as a "municipal office" until it was incorporated on April 1, 1921, and from then on it was used as an administrative building with apartments. After the Second World War , the "Ratskeller", which was then closed, was rebuilt and on September 7, 1947 a branch of the "Municipal Libraries" was set up in its rooms. This branch became Dresden's first open access library in 1956, after previously only stockpiles were available that had to be borrowed from a counter.
While the administrative use was given up after 1945, these rooms were increasingly rededicated as apartments.
building
The three-storey corner building on an acute-angled floor plan, with today's address Bautzner Landstrasse 130 (2019), was built in 1898/1899 by the Loschwitz architect Paul Winkler in a very representative form in the neo-renaissance style. The plastered building was given a cornice above the ground floor and a cornice as the top. The plastered building was adorned with two renaissance gables on the sides , the sloping corner received a representative volute gable with a moving silhouette.
The three entrances were designed in a lavish and varied manner, the main entrance in the sloping corner was particularly emphasized: it is framed by two full pillars standing on pedestals, which bear a bay window for the first floor above. There is a semicircular entablature in the typical Art Nouveau style above the entrance itself . Various reliefs - especially above the main entrance - depict figures from Greek mythology. The entrance from Neukircher Straße can be reached via an outside staircase with a spherical parapet, which has not been accessible to the public since the building was renovated. A three-dimensional head was placed above this entrance as a relief in the keystone. This shows the construction worker Karl Huhle from Eschdorf who died in 1918 and who was particularly committed to the construction of the building.
Refurbishment after 1990
From 1997 to 1999 the building was extensively renovated. The two dilapidated side gables were removed and a circumferential mansard floor was pulled into the high roof. After the renovation was completed, in which essential elements of Art Nouveau were also restored in the stairwell from the time the house was built, a plaque was unveiled in 1999 on the occasion of the celebrations for the 650th anniversary of Bühlau on December 17, 1999 The building reminds the architect and the earlier use. It was still used as a library and residential use, and doctors have their practices here.
The building is a historical monument.
See also
literature
- Roland Lorenz: Bühlau. In: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): Dresden town halls. A documentation. designXpress, Dresden 2010, pp. 80–81. Without ISBN.
Web links
- The town hall of Bühlau on dresdner-stadtteile.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Library of Bühlau. In: bibo-dresden.de. Dresden City Libraries, accessed on November 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Cultural monument: Bautzner Landstrasse 130. Accessed on November 13, 2019.
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 41.8 ″ N , 13 ° 50 ′ 56.3 ″ E