Niedersedlitz town hall
The Niedersedlitz Town Hall is located at Sosaer Straße 11 in the Niedersedlitz district of Dresden . It was built in 1901/02 in Niedersedlitz, which was still independent at the time, and is now a listed building.
History and description
After the construction of the Saxon-Bohemian Railway in 1848, the village of Niedersedlitz quickly developed into an industrial location with high tax revenues and a steadily growing population, which at the time of construction consisted of barely 2,000 people. In the 1890s it became necessary to build a new town hall, for the planning of which the municipality set up a committee and in March 1899 purchased a plot of land on what was then Schulstrasse. The architect Gustav Hänichen , who had designed the town hall in Radebeul and the town hall in Leuben in the previous years , was won over for the planning . In addition to a council cellar and the premises for the municipal administration, the plans also included a police station, apartments and a large conference room.
The foundation stone was laid in June 1901, the topping-out ceremony on August 31. The ceremony for the inauguration of the new town hall was celebrated on July 10, 1902. There were 94 guests present, who were served a festive menu at six in the evening. Among other things, pikeperch and beef sirloin a la jardiniere were served. A letter to the editor in the local newspaper later described the celebration as too pompous and too expensive.
Like the other town halls built by Hänichen - and many other buildings from this time - the Niedersedlitz town hall is a colorful mix of styles from eclectic historicism . Set pieces from the Romanesque, late Gothic, Renaissance but also from the modern Art Nouveau at the time of construction are cited. The building has three full floors above a high, rusticated base in the form of a basement, with rooms on a lower ground floor on the western side of the building, i.e. this part of the building has four full floors above a correspondingly lower base.
In addition to the Ratskeller and the municipal administration in the eastern part of the building with windows facing Sosaer Strasse and An der Post , the town hall housed a branch of the Sparkasse and offices of the police administration. In addition, the community leader's apartment was on the first floor. The large ballroom was located on the second floor of the east wing under the high Renaissance gable. A tower with a large clock with a diameter of 1.40 meters rises above the central main entrance. The municipal archive was in the tower. Above the main portal - there are still six side entrances - there is a large owl on the keystone of the archway, symbolizing wisdom. In the entrance you can see a star vault and stucco reliefs on both sides with depictions of various crafts, seafaring and trade. These reliefs are now painted over in white, nothing is known about their original color.
In the years after the First World War , the building also housed the AOK Niedersedlitz, a fire station and other apartments. After the Second World War , when Schulstrasse was no longer called Adolf-Hitler-Strasse as it was during the Nazi era , the building only served as the town hall for a few years until Niedersedlitz was incorporated into Dresden in 1950. After that, furniture was temporarily stored, some rooms served as accommodation for Hungarian guest workers and the consumer cooperative also used the first and second floors for a few years.
After reunification, the Stadtsparkasse Dresden (today Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden ) acquired the house and had it renovated from 1994 onwards. There was a savings bank branch on the ground floor. However, the ground floor of the western part had been used by a dental practice for many years, which could remain there even after the takeover by the Sparkasse. HEROLÉ Reisen GmbH has owned the building since 2015. The Sparkasse branch is still on the ground floor. The other rooms are used by the current owner as an office and company headquarters.
See also
literature
- Joachim Liebers: Niedersedlitz . In: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): Dresden town halls. A documentation . designXpress, Dresden 2010, p. 108-111 .
Web links
HEROLÉ Reisen GmbH - current owner of the town hall.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cultural monument: Sosaer Straße 11. Retrieved on April 4, 2011.
- ↑ a b c d e Joachim Liebers: Niedersedlitz . In: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): Dresden town halls. A documentation . designXpress, Dresden 2010, p. 108-111 .
- ↑ Bettina Klemm: From the old town hall to the training center . Ed .: Saxon Newspaper. Dresden 4th September 1998.
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 59 ″ N , 13 ° 49 ′ 24.6 ″ E