Town hall Plauen (Dresden)

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Town hall Plauen

The Town Hall Plauen is located on the Nöthnitzer 2 im Dresdner district Plauen . It was built in 1893/94 in the then independent municipality of Plauen and is now one of the district's cultural monuments .

history

Plauen developed in the 19th century from a rural community to a suburb of Dresden with urban development. When industry settled in the Weißeritz valley , among others through Gottlieb Traugott Bienert , the leaseholder of the Hofmühle , the population of Plauen grew to more than 12,000 people in 1900. The growing community applied for the construction of a town hall as early as June 1889. However, the approval from the competent authority, the Royal Administrative Authority, only took place after Gottlieb Traugott Bienert donated the property on Räcknitzer Strasse, today's Nöthnitzer Strasse, to the community.

In January 1892, the tender took place as an open competition, in which 116 designs were received. The Dresden architect and professor of the Technical University of Dresden, Karl Weißbach (1841–1905) and the architect and later rector of the TH Rudolf Heyn (1835–1916) had made themselves available as judges . The Berlin office “Pfeiffer und Engler” won first prize, while the third prize went to an architect from Leipzig. However, the contract for the construction of the town hall went to the winner of the second prize, the office of architects William Lossow and Hermann Viehweger in Dresden. The most important building by Lossow and Viehweger so far was the Viktoriahaus , built in 1891/92 , a splendid neo-renaissance commercial building on Prager Strasse . Your design for the Plauen town hall was entitled 130,000 marks.

The laying of the foundation stone took place on April 23, 1893. Carried out by the Plauen-based construction company Gebrüder Fichtner , the construction progressed rapidly, especially due to generous donations from wealthy Plauen residents, even if the costs were well above the promised 130,000 marks. The construction finally cost around 200,000 marks and was inaugurated on October 18, 1894. The bells for the town hall tower (from 1467 and older) were awarded to the town hall by the parish council of the Plauen church .

Until the incorporation of Plauen into Dresden in 1903, the house served as the seat of the municipal administration. But even after the incorporation, the most important functions remained in the house: the local health fund, the public library (since 1907, the year the old schoolhouse was demolished, in which it was initially housed), registration and registry office, police and the council cellar on the ground floor. In 1930, however, the Stadtsparkasse moved into parts of the restaurant, the bar was reduced to the “Bräustübel” and received a new entrance at the corner tower - its operation in turn was stopped in 1936 and the rooms were used for the Stadtbank. The library, the placement of which in the town hall probably meant an obstacle to business operations, could be housed in another location in 1931.

However, there were major changes after the Second World War, when the house was used as a day care center for the 55th Polytechnic High School (including the corresponding bedrooms) from 1963 and housed a total of six (mainly first and second) classes there, as well as the two-storey conference room have been converted into a gym. Despite this use, which lasted until 1991, the building fell into disrepair due to lack of maintenance.

In 1992, the city of Dresden, which had taken over the construction, began the renovation in accordance with the listed buildings. In May 1996, the administration of the Südvorstadt local office , which had been located at Fritz-Foerster-Platz 2, was able to start operations in the Plauen town hall; the local office was also renamed the Plauen local office. Today it houses the administrative headquarters of the city district office (until 2018: local office) and a citizens' office of the city of Dresden. On the ground floor there was also a branch of the Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden , which used the rooms of the former Sparkasse and the former Stadtbank until 2013. Since 2015, these rooms have been the municipal office of the city district office. The remaining bell from 1467 was transferred to the Dresden City Museum and is now the oldest bell in the city of Dresden.

description

Figure of Saint George

The three-story building was built in the neo-renaissance style and is located on the corner of Nöthnitzer and Coschützer Straße. The facade of the ground floor was designed as a stone block facade, the rest of the building is plastered and the corners and windows are decorated with natural stone . At the angled corner of the two street views is a 51 meter high four-storey tower, in the gabled house facing the F.-C.-Weiskopf-Platz (the former village square, which was named Chemnitzer Platz in 1903 ), one gabled house, just above one narrow spiral staircase accessible, tower clock is located. Below that, on the third floor of the tower, is a balcony resting on four consoles. On the tower there is a roof turret designed as a bell cage , which until 1993 contained two medieval bells from the Plauen church. On both sides of the street as well as on the front side of the tower there are two-storey, stepped dwelling houses with volute gables . At the north-west corner of the building there is an angled bay window, which is crowned by a steep octagonal rooftop. The main portal of the town hall is on Nöthnitzer Strasse. Above the seat niche portal is a bay window resting on columns, the top of which was designed as a balcony for the second floor. The wedding room was on the first floor behind the bay window, the balcony on the second floor could be reached via the two-story conference room. In Coschützer Straße there is also a bay window above a round arched portal resting on columns.

On the left side of the tower there is a figure of Saint George made by the Dresden sculptor Robert Henze in a niche .

The interior of the town hall is as elaborately designed as the exterior. Particularly noteworthy is the conference room, which extends over two floors, with its paneling, donated by Bienert's sons, Theodor and Erwin. Despite its use as a gym, many parts of the original equipment have been preserved. The original painting of the staircase is still there, as is a window with stained glass.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Rathaus Plauen, Dresden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cultural monument: Nöthnitzer Straße 2. Accessed on April 8, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Manfred Dreßler, Claudia Posselt, Dirk Schumann (Office for Culture and Monument Protection Dresden): Plauen . In: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): Dresden town halls. A documentation . designXpress, Dresden 2010, p. 151-155 .
  3. ↑ Paul Dittrich: Between Hofmühle and Heidenschanze - History of the Dresden suburbs Plauen and Coschütz. Verlag Adolf Urban, Dresden 1941, 2nd edition, p. 32.
  4. ↑ Paul Dittrich: Between Hofmühle and Heidenschanze - History of the Dresden suburbs Plauen and Coschütz. Verlag Adolf Urban, Dresden 1941, 2nd edition, p. 160.
  5. ^ Association of Patrons and Friends of the 55th Middle School Dresden-Plauen eV (Ed.): Festschrift - 55th Middle School Dresden-Plauen - 1882–2007 . Julius Missbach printing works, Neustadt i. Sa. 2007, pp. 21 and 24.
  6. ^ Matthias Donath , Jörg Blobelt : Old & New Dresden . edition Sächsische Zeitung, Dresden 2007, p. 236 f .

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '44.6 "  N , 13 ° 42' 26"  E