Town hall Coschütz
The town hall Coschütz existed from 1903 to 1921 as a municipal office of the independent municipality Coschütz in the south of Dresden . The building designed by the architect Richard Schleinitz on what was then Körnerstraße (address today: Windbergstraße 22) was built in 1902/1903. After Coschütz was incorporated into Dresden in 1921, it was initially used by administrative offices and later as a branch of the South Polyclinic . Since the renovation in the 1990s, it has been a medical center with a private daycare center and a student association. There are also two apartments on the top floor. The house itself is in the private real estate portfolio.
history
General
The first settlements were laid out on Heidenschanze as early as the early Bronze Age . Between 6./7. In the 16th century and around 1100 the area was inhabited by the Elbe Slavs, Coschütz himself was first mentioned in 1284. The oldest surviving buildings go back to the middle of the 19th century. Coal deposits were discovered in Coschütz in the 18th century . Two coal pits were built for dismantling around 1780 and the stately Claus coal works in 1836. In this way, the district of Neu-Coschütz with a strong population growth was created in the Plauen reason ; however, in 1896 he was reassigned to Potschappel. Nevertheless, from 1889 onwards, the population in the remaining part of Coschütz began to grow, primarily due to new buildings on Karlsruher Strasse.
In 1839 Coschütz introduced community leaders and community committees, i.e. its own community administration, for the first time on the basis of the Saxon rural community code of 1838 . As was customary at the time, it was initially housed in the rooms of the respective parish council (most recently in two rooms of the house of the former parish council Schönberg), the council meetings took place in an inn since 1890. The growing number of inhabitants required a permanent structural solution for the administration of the community, with intensive public discussions about building a town hall or renting rooms in a private house; the opponents drew attention to the fact that they did not consider a new building to be necessary for Coschütz, which had around 2,500 inhabitants at the time.
Planning and construction
In 1901, under the leadership of Espig, a decision was made to build an independent municipal office and, after lengthy negotiations, on January 30, 1902, landowner Körner bought a piece of land for 10,300 marks. The design was announced as a competition among the members of the Dresden Architects' Association; construction costs of around 45,000 to 50,000 marks were envisaged. A little later it was decided to add a "Ratskeller" and, after approval by the supervisory authority, a loan of 80,000 marks was taken out.
In the Easter days of 1902, a public exhibition of the 14 designs received took place, the winner was the design by Theodor Lehnert and Georg Heinsius von Mayenburg , the second prize went to Richard Schleinitz and the third to the design by Clemens Türke . It was decided to combine all drafts into one and to have Richard Schleinitz work out the final draft.
The plans were submitted for approval on June 19, 1902, the tenders were issued on July 3, and construction began on August 21, 1902. The site manager was the architect Schleinitz, earthworks, masonry and carpentry work was carried out by Max Seiffert from Coschütz, and the metalworking work by Kühnscher & Sons. The topping-out ceremony was on March 4, 1903, the inauguration on September 13, 1903. Delays resulted from additional planning for the Ratskeller, deeper foundations and more modern technical equipment than originally planned (e.g. central heating, lighting, clock with clock tower). In the end, the construction costs amounted to approx. 125,000 marks (2018, rounded: 840,000 euros) and thus over 50% more than originally estimated.
Usage history
In 1903 the guard and the Ratskeller were arranged on the ground floor, which included a dance hall (later known as "Demos"), a billiard room and two club rooms. On the first floor there were the meeting room, savings and community canteens as well as the official apartment of the community leader, on the second floor there were two further apartments. The outdoor bank and the syringe house were in the back building.
In 1921 Coschütz was incorporated into Dresden; it was initially used by administrative offices for a few years. The Ratskeller was also preserved until 1949: Between 1936 and 1949 it was managed by Max Rahm , the discoverer of today's “ Rahm-Hanke ” climbing path below the Bastei rock . The administrative offices were converted into practices in the 1950s and until 1990 as a branch of the South Polyclinic. In the Ratskeller, which was closed in 1949, a People's Solidarity Club opened in 1955, which existed until after 1990.
After extensive renovation, the building is now mainly used as a medical center and as a residential building, a private day-care center has existed since 2002,
building
Richard Schleinitz built the building in the style of the Low German Renaissance, models were town halls of the North German and Dutch merchant towns, which is indicated by volute gables and an irregular distribution of the building dimensions. The central axis of the asymmetrical street facade contains a balcony porch made of sandstone, under which the main portal with the municipal coat of arms introduced in 1902 with the formerly most important branches of economy agriculture, brewing and quarrying is located. On the balcony consoles there are allegorical representations of Justitia (justice, left, with a blindfold) and Fortitudo (bravery, right, with helmet). In the eaves of this axis there is a sandstone dormer , above the richly structured and decorated clock and bell tower.
The left part of the street view is a risalit with a volute gable, in front of which there is a porch on the ground floor and the 1st floor, the windows on the 1st floor with sandstone walls and parapet reliefs are reminiscent of a council arbor. On the west side is the single-storey porch of the Ratskeller, the two-winged rear of the building is dominated by the dismantled staircase with an octagonal floor plan.
The building has a sandstone base, the facades were and are smoothly plastered, the roof covered with natural red beaver tail tiles. A wealth of Art Nouveau details (balcony grilles, entrance door), which particularly dominated the "Ratskeller", is remarkable . In order to create the "cellar character", the ceiling was vaulted and provided with numerous portraits. The showpiece was the chandelier, lost after 1945, with numerous allegorical representations. Only a few remains of the artistically remarkable interior of the restaurant have survived today.
As the building is a listed building, the renovation was carried out under strict conditions that were not only met by the current owner, but numerous artistic details were also restored inside.
See also
literature
- Claudia Posselt, Dirk Schumann: Coschütz. In: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): Dresden town halls. A documentation. designXpress, Dresden 2010, pp. 125–127. Without ISBN.
- Volker Helas, Gudrun Peltz: Art Nouveau architecture in Dresden . KNOP Verlag for Architecture - Photography - Art, Dresden 1999, p. 197, plates 77, 78. ISBN 3-934363-00-8 .
Web links
- The town hall of Coschütz on dresdner-stadtteile.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cultural monument: Windbergstrasse 22 . Retrieved January 21, 2018.
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 3.9 " N , 13 ° 41 ′ 59.1" E