Leuben town hall
The Leuben Town Hall is located at Hertzstraße 23 in the Leuben district of Dresden . It was built in 1900/01 in the then independent Leuben and is now a listed building.
History and description
Towards the end of the 19th century, the farming village of Leuben developed into an industrial and commercial location with around 3500 inhabitants. So it needed a new administrative headquarters, for which the financial means were also available. The community acquired the building site on what was then Residenzstrasse in 1897. In November 1899, it was decided to build a town hall including a restaurant. The Dresden architect Gustav Hänichen , who at around the same time also took part in the tender for the New City Hall in Dresden and also the design of the Radebeul City Hall, which has been under construction since 1899, was commissioned with the constructionhad created. He managed to keep the total costs of the project well below the limit of 150,000 marks set by the community. Presumably for reasons of cost, the construction of an originally four-winged complex was dispensed with.
The three-and-a-half-storey building was built in a mixture of all available neo- styles of historicism with some art nouveau sprinkles. The high roof with main and side towers and the staircase with stucco, columns and leaded glass windows are impressive. It shows a high Renaissance gable on two sides with decorations in a colorful mix of neo-baroque and art nouveau styles and a corner bay window on a polygonal floor plan that extends over two floors. The Ratskeller with a large winter garden on the mezzanine floor could be reached via an outside staircase on the north side of the building. The stairs and winter garden are still there today, the restaurant has not been there since 1921. The walls of the Ratskelleraal, which is now used as a citizen's hall, are clad in wood, the ceiling is adorned with five large stucco pictures that were painted over for a long time and whose colors were only proven in 1999 when students from the University of Fine Arts were exposed .
In addition to the municipal administration, the building also housed the registration office, the Leuben police station and a branch of the local savings bank. All this was limited to the rooms on the ground floor and first floor. The councilor Otto Dittrich (1864–1929) had a large apartment for himself and his family on the second floor. The community employees' apartments were on the third floor. Instead of the Ratskeller on the ground floor of the house , which had been closed since 1921 because of a lack of popularity , a public bath with four bathtubs and four shower cubicles was set up in 1925 , which was only closed in 1992. From 1933 - Leuben had already been incorporated into the municipality in 1921 - the second floor was also used by the municipal administration; the savings bank, the welfare office and a police station were on the ground floor. From the first floor, a spiral staircase connected the "crime department" with the custody cells on the mezzanine and in the basement. This criminal department was a camouflage for the Gestapo headquarters in Dresden-Ost.
At that time the Residenzstrasse, renamed Hertzstrasse after the incorporation of Leuben, was named after the German politician Hans Knirsch , who died in 1933 . Heinrich Hertz was considered a Jew by the National Socialists because of his origins. The house number was always 23. On the third floor there were still apartments that were mostly inhabited by craftsmen. In the Dresden address book from 1941, for example, a dealer and a chair maker are listed as tenants, along with the candy maker Kattermann and the caretaker Nitzsche.
After 1945 the town hall initially housed a reception center for bomb victims, later also a tuberculosis ward and a maternity care center. In the later GDR years, administrative tasks such as police reporting and housing management again predominated .
Dresden was divided into ten local office areas in 1992 and Leuben was the center of one of these areas. The town hall has been restored and has been the seat of the city district office since 1998 (until 2018: local office). In 2001 it celebrated its 100th anniversary together with the Church of the Assumption.
See also
literature
- Joachim Liebers: Leuben . In: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): Dresden town halls. A documentation . designXpress, Dresden 2010, p. 95-100 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cultural monument: Hertzstraße 23. Accessed March 30, 2011.
- ↑ a b c Joachim Liebers: Leuben . In: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): Dresden town halls. A documentation . designXpress, Dresden 2010, p. 95-100 .
- ↑ Entry on Knirschstraße 23 in the address book of the state capital Dresden, Freital-Radebeul, with surrounding 6 cities and 24 communities. Dresden 1941. Second volume, part V, page 431.
- ↑ State capital Dresden, local office Leuben (Ed.): City Hall Leuben . Dresden 2001.
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 37.2 " N , 13 ° 49 ′ 31.2" E