Town hall Pillnitz
The Pillnitz town hall was a building of the independent municipality of Pillnitz in the east of Dresden, used from 1925 to 1950 as town hall and historically as the third municipal office . The building at Am Rathaus 1 , planned and executed by the master builder Carl August Fritzsche in 1878/1879, was the imperial post office on the ground floor until 1911 and then a branch of the association savings bank Schönfeld and the surrounding area. In 1924 it was converted into the town hall and used as such until 1950, when Pillnitz was incorporated into Dresden. It then went to the Stadtsparkasse Dresden , whose successor, the Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden, still uses the building on the ground floor for a branch today.
history
The first documentary mention of Pillnitz dates back to 1335 as "Belenewitz". With the influx of German farmers, the core of the village developed on today's town hall square, where there were no larger farms. The largest property was a manor near the Elbe, where Pillnitz Castle is today. From the beginning of the 15th century several families can be traced as the manorial estate, in 1694 Elector Johann Georg IV. Acquired the place from the Bünau family in exchange for the rule of Lichtenwalde. His brother and successor August II had the old castle converted into a representative summer residence.
Various outbuildings were built to manage the manor belonging to the castle, which later became the seat of the Pillnitz Chamber Manor (today: Pillnitz campus of the Dresden University of Technology and Economics ). As early as 1790, some of the house owners had been relocated from the area of today's castle park to Pillnitzer Erlicht (Wilhelm-Wolf-Straße). In the 19th century, Pillnitz increasingly developed into an excursion destination for the bourgeoisie too. The establishment of a steamboat landing stage in 1840 in particular led to the increased influx of Dresden citizens. In the middle of the 19th century, new villas were built on the edge of the village center and on the slopes of the Elbe Valley, and from 1927 the country house settlement was built on the former local mountain with the café of the same name.
At the beginning of 1839, Pillnitz led community leaders and community committees for the first time on the basis of the Saxon rural community code of 1838 . H. have their own municipal administration. Until 1906, as was customary at the time, it was mainly housed in the rooms of the respective community council. The meetings of the municipal council also took place either there or in the Pillnitzer Mühle (today (2018): An der Schäferei 1 ).
The increasing number of tasks led in 1906 to the establishment of a (first) community office in the house of the community elder Friedrich Ernst Herr, elected in 1906, at Schönfelder Strasse 14 b (today (2018): Meixstrasse 6 ), which was now open for a few hours on weekdays.
This was repeated in 1914 with the election of Johannes Klippel as head of the community at Schönfelder Strasse 13 (today (2018): Meixstrasse 3 ), to which the municipal office moved from that time . It remained there until 1925; The widow Henriette Marie Füssel donated the building at Schönfelder Strasse 13 to the community of Pillnitz in 1920.
When, after 1919, the previously independent estate areas of the Kammergut and the castle were combined with the community, the need for a separate town hall building arose, although the community did not want to build its own building from the outset for reasons of cost. In February 1925, the municipal administration now moved into the town hall , which is now the third municipal office in the history of Pillnitz.
building
Building history until 1924
In 1879 the master builder Carl August Fritzsche completed the construction of the z. The two-storey house with a partial basement and three-storey in the north-western area with today's address Am Rathaus 1 . The first floor was occupied by the Imperial Post Office (which had existed in Pillnitz since 1857) with counter, expedition and post office rooms as well as the apartment for the post office administrator. He had set up rental apartments on the first floor and the top floor.
It stayed that way with the subsequent owners. In 1911 the post office moved into the tenement Orangeriestraße 20 , the rooms of which were subsequently used by the Verbandssparkasse Schönfeld and the surrounding area.
The entrance (the wooden entrance door is still original today (2018)) was accessible via a staircase on the southern end of the building. A massive staircase joined the entrance; Above the entrance there is a wooden balcony that characterizes the building. Window, ledge and base zones are made as sandstone walls.
Reconstruction in 1924/25 and use until 1950
In February 1924, the Pillnitz community acquired the house and property from the bank clerk Rudi Alexander Gelbrich, and extensive repair and renovation work was required in summer and autumn. In February 1925, the municipal administration moved into the building, on the facade of which the town hall now appeared . After entering - from the south side - the citizens came through a corridor to the right to the savings and giro bank or to the community and tax bank. By registering with the local police, you came to the mayor , as the community elder has been called since 1924. The municipal administration with general administration, residents' registration office and local court, and from 1933 also Nazi offices, could be reached directly. The residential use remained for the upper and attic floors.
After 1945 this was where the administration and cash desk, the housing and economic office and the food card office were housed; the archive was in the attic. Pillnitz was not affected by the air raids on Dresden in 1945, and there was no damage as a result.
Use after 1950
After the incorporation in 1950, the building was owned by the Stadtsparkasse Dresden; the building itself was fairly well preserved during the GDR era. After the administration moved out, it made significant changes and also used the ground floor as a branch from 1953, which still exists today (2018).
Due to permanent changes, especially after 1933, it was not possible during the renovation in 1993/1994 to come close enough to the old state again, so the building is not a listed building. During this refurbishment, the entrance was moved from the south to the west (square) side.
Nevertheless, some elements of the old town hall, the cubature of which corresponds to the original building even after the renovation, have been preserved: the sandstone plinth, the size of the window openings with their sandstone walls, the balcony on the south side above the former entrance, as well as the colored contrasts next to it the windows.
The address Rathaus Pillnitz was only removed well after 1950, since then the inscription Sparkasse , since the renovation in the typical "Sparkasse red", has been attached to it.
See also
literature
- Sieghart Pietzsch: Pillnitz. In: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): Dresden town halls. A documentation. designXpress, Dresden 2010, pp. 112–114. Without ISBN.
Web links
- The town hall of Pillnitz on dresdner-stadtteile.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Comparison of the pictures from 1925 and 2010 in Pietzsch, pp. 112, 114.
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '46.3 " N , 13 ° 52' 24.1" E