Town hall Gittersee
The town hall Gittersee existed from 1890 to 1945 as a municipal office of the independent municipality Gittersee in the south of Dresden . The corner building on Karlsruher- / Rathausstraße (address 2018: Karlsruher Str. 96) was built around 1890. After Gittersee was incorporated into Dresden, it was used by the Stadtsparkasse Dresden until 1993 , and has been a residential building since 2007.
history
The village of Gittersee , first mentioned in 1349, was administered exclusively by judges for many centuries - until 1839 - which was enough for the small farming village until the beginning of the 19th century. Only when coal deposits were discovered near Gittersee around 1800 did the place change from a farming village to a mining community; In 1809 the opening of the first shaft in Niedergittersee began. The booming hard coal mining industry (the Gitterseer Steinkohlenbauverein was founded in 1837 with three large pits operated by it) was also reflected in larger infrastructure measures: Between 1841 and 1844, Karlsruher Strasse was expanded for coal transports and the Windbergbahn was built in 1857 .
The growing number of inhabitants made it necessary, after the formation of an independent municipal administration in 1839 (which initially, as was customary at the time, was mainly housed in the rooms of the respective municipal council), and finally the construction of an independent municipal office . Around 1890 a building was built, often referred to as Rathaus Gittersee (the corresponding cross street from Karlsruher Straße was named Rathausstraße ), which housed the municipal administration and the Imperial Imperial Post Office (on the ground floor of the side wing parallel to Karlsruher Straße, later a post office, from 1945 post office Dresden A 41) and contained apartments for community employees on the mansard floor, and only served these purposes until 1945, when Gittersee was incorporated into Dresden.
After 1945 the building was taken over by the Stadtsparkasse Dresden and operated a branch there until 1993: The building itself was reasonably preserved during the GDR era.
However, the history of the renovation from 1990 to 2007 is one that largely reflects the situation in the eastern German states on the one hand, and the residential use that has now existed since 2007 is no longer linked to the history of the building, it has also been architecturally smoothed. Only a single element, the (and also new) clock on the corner gable reminds you of the old municipal office at first glance .
building
The three-storey corner building, with today's address Karlsruher Straße 96 , was built around 1890 in a simple form with echoes of the Renaissance . An architectural element in the facade facing Rathausstrasse was a front shield gable , which was arranged in the middle of the facade. The corner was bevelled twice by 45 ° and the mansard roof was designed as a full storey on both Rathausstrasse and Karlsruher Strasse . The corner that was inclined to the street corner was accentuated by a corner gable that protruded far beyond the ridge and that was later fitted with a clock in the top part.
As one of the very few decorative elements, the eaves were equipped with sandstone volutes and snail motifs and sandstone crowns , and a surrounding cornice was attached on the first floor. The execution with sandstone window frames and the sandstone facing of the building base was common in Dresden and the surrounding area at that time. The facade was smoothly plastered and originally colored red ocher (this corresponded to the specifications of the Imperial Post ), the roof was covered with slate.
The entrance was on the back of the building, the corner gable had a trellis on the ground floor up to the level of the first floor.
Refurbishment after 1990
Immediately after 1990, the Sparkasse relocated its main entrance to the corner gable, providing it with a monumental access system on which an aluminum and glass pavilion made of industrially manufactured parts was placed.
Since economical investments were made in roofs and shelves, at least over the GDR era, this old building was in comparatively good condition, so that the sale in 1993 promised to be a successful modernization in terms of monument preservation aspects.
Apart from the fact that the new owner took the opportunity to dismantle the watch, dial and bell immediately after purchase and supposedly spend it for processing and this was followed by a fruitless legal dispute until 2005 (the originals have since disappeared and did not appear until 2018) The building was subsequently passed on to the owners several times, who - without any significant renovation progress - repeatedly sold it on at higher prices.
The renovation, which had been stagnating since 1993, was not completed until 2005, the entrance ramp was dismantled and the current owner procured a new, stylish clock at his own expense, which is the only reminder of its original use in the building, which has been used exclusively as a residential building since 2007.
Due to this - also painful - renovation history, the house is still a listed building.
See also
literature
- Claudia Posselt, Dirk Schumann: Gittersee. In: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): Dresden town halls. A documentation. designXpress, Dresden 2010, pp. 128–129. Without ISBN.
Web links
- The town hall of Gittersee on dresdner-stadtteile.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ dresdner-stadtteile.de states that the year of construction was 1901.
- ↑ Cultural monument: Karlsruher Str. 96.Retrieved on January 17, 2018.
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 36.6 ″ N , 13 ° 41 ′ 31.7 ″ E