Town hall Pieschen
The Pieschen town hall is located at Bürgerstraße 63 in the Pieschen district of Dresden . It was built in 1890/91 in the then still independent Pieschen and is now a listed building.
history
Planning and construction
Pieschen was a fishing and fruit growing village in the first half of the 19th century, which was also popular as a destination for the residents of Dresden. From the middle of the century, however, a dynamic development into an industrial location began. With the establishment of the Dresden – Leipzig long-distance railway line in 1839 and the construction of the Leipzig train station between Dresden Neustadt and Pieschen , and in particular the construction of the Pieschen harbor until 1859, Pieschen became a lively workers' residence. In 1834 Pieschen had 347 inhabitants, in 1890 there were already 12,400.
Pieschen's municipal administration had been located in the former schoolhouse at Schulstrasse 25 (today Bürgerstrasse 76) since 1879 - since it had become too small in view of the population growth, a new school had been built at Osterbergstrasse 22. A meeting room was set up in the old school and the registry office was also housed here, along with some clerks and officials. This building quickly turned out to be too small and not representative enough, so that the Pieschen municipal council decided on July 10, 1889 to build a town hall on a plot of land that was purchased in 1888 in what was then Schulstrasse.
In 1890 a limited architectural competition was announced. In the Elbthal-Morgen-Zeitung of October 16, 1890, the following requirements can be found for the premises to be built:
“The town hall is to house the Reichspost, the police and the Rathskellerwirthschaft on the ground floor, the Raths expeditions and the registry office on the first floor, the meeting room and apartments on the second floor, and the roof on the latter. In the courtyard, the fire department depot and the explosive vehicles , the detention cells and an apartment are to be set up in a rear building that has yet to be built . "
Two competition entries are known, and it is possible that no other architects have been invited to submit an entry. The second prize went to the Pieschen master builder and later councilor Gänzel, the first prize and the contract went to the still young architects Schilling & Graebner , who had just founded their Dresden office the year before. The Pieschen order was her first major order alongside the construction of the Luther Church in Radebeul . The foundation stone was laid in 1890, and completion was scheduled for October 1, 1891. The construction was financed exclusively through loans.
The Pieschen town hall was inaugurated in November 1891, with a few weeks delay and the planned construction costs being significantly exceeded. Shortly before this, the local council had decided to have the rear building built as well.
The inauguration celebrations began with a symbolic excerpt from the previous municipal office and the keys were handed over by the architects. Rudolf Schilling gave a speech of thanks for the trust placed in us. The mayor of Dresden, Alfred Stübel, also brought congratulations before they celebrated with eel blue and roast rabbit in the Ratskeller.
Usage and further history
The council cellar of the town hall was located on the ground floor of the building and took up the entire west wing with all the ancillary rooms - in addition to the taproom there was a club room, a "council arbor" and various storage rooms including a pantry as well as a bowling alley in the rear building. In summer, the so-called “marquise”, a wooden structure on the west side of the building covered with tarpaulin, could also be served outside. However, the first landlord died in February 1892 and his widow was unable to continue the business. The management of the restaurant was put out to tender, the landlords changed several times in the following years. But in 1898 the Ratskeller came to an end and the professional fire brigade moved into the town hall and the rear building. For this purpose, the rooms on the ground floor were converted into a crew room, a watch chief's room and a telegraph room. State-of-the-art communication technology was installed and marble control and instrument panels were built in. The “Marquise” was turned into a fire department carpentry and in 1935 the bowling alley was also removed so that larger fire engines could be accommodated.
In 1926 the south wing was expanded to include rooms for the welfare and tax office. Until the end of the GDR, the town hall served as the administrative seat of the Dresden-Nord district with a residents' office and police registration office. However, the fire department moved out of the building in the 1950s.
From 1990 to 1994 the Pieschen town hall was completely renovated. At that time, the building was already a danger to traffic and passers-by, as the sandstone elements and the slate of the roofing had loosened threateningly in places. On February 24, 1994, the renovation work was completed with the installation of the reconstructed spire. The town hall is used as the district office of Pieschen and the citizens' office of the state capital Dresden, the rear building was expanded to become a branch of the city library at the beginning of the new millennium .
description
The three-storey building consists of two wings arranged at right angles to one another, with the main viewing side facing Bürgerstraße giving the impression of a symmetrically laid out single-wing building with a three-axis central projection. These three central axes, which are only slightly forward, are crowned by a high Neo-Renaissance gable, the ridge of which is level with the latticed ridge of the steep hipped roof, which is also surmounted by a high rider in the middle of the main wing . In the middle of the risalit is the magnificent portal under a balcony on the first floor. The two corners of the building on Bürgerstraße are built like a bay window, and there is another entrance under each bay window. The second wing of the building is located on its west side and gives the building the impression of monumental unity, even when coming from Rehefelder Straße.
The brick masonry building is clad in red with Laubaner facing bricks. The window and door frames as well as the cornices are made of Elbe sandstone. Terracottas are installed in the window parapets of the bay windows and the street side of the second floor. One of the architects wrote in the Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung :
“When making the terracottas, the following process proved itself extraordinarily well: the same raw material that was used for the facing bricks was obtained from Lauban and processed in Dresden by the sculptor Geissler to make the ornaments in question. Then the fillings, after they had previously been cut into pieces about half a square meter in size, were taken to the earthenware factory of Villeroy et al. Burned Boch . […] The transfer of the ornaments from the workshop to the Villeroy et al. Boch happened on simple stretchers. "
These terracottas show the most important dignitaries in addition to inscriptions and figurative decorations. A board in the entrance axis lists all community representatives at the time of construction.
See also
literature
- Manfred Dreßler, Dirk Schumann: Pieschen . In: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): Dresden town halls. A documentation . designXpress, Dresden 2010, p. 166-172 .
- Ricarda Kube: The town hall in Dresden-Pieschen , in: In search of the future - The example of Pieschen (= Dresdner Hefte , No. 23), Dresden 1990, pp. 61–71
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cultural monument: Bürgerstraße 63. Accessed on January 27, 2011.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Manfred Dreßler, Dirk Schumann: Pieschen . In: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): Dresden town halls. A documentation . designXpress, Dresden 2010, p. 166-172 .
- ↑ Elbthal-Morgen-Zeitung , XII. Vol., No. 121, October 16, 1890.
- ↑ so the description of Ricarda Kube in: The town hall in Dresden-Pieschen. from: Dresdner Hefte . No. 23, Dresden 1990, p. 66 ff
- ↑ Volume 12, 1892, No. 5 of January 30, 1892, pp. 42–44. Quoted from Dreßler, p. 169.
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 38.1 ″ N , 13 ° 43 ′ 17.4 ″ E