Trachau town hall
The Trachau town hall existed from 1900 to 1902 as the town hall of the independent municipality of Trachau in the west of Dresden . The building on what was then Moritzburger Strasse (address 2018: Wilder-Mann-Strasse 3–5) was used as a townhouse by the city of Dresden until 1950 after it was incorporated . From 1952 to 1992 it was used by the Mickten Polyclinic and was empty from then until 2008. Since the renovation in 2008 it has been a residential building.
Prehistory and construction
Trachau was first mentioned in 1242 as "Trachennowe". Despite the Middle High German name origin, the place was founded as a Sorbian settlement in an old Elbarm. The village was laid out as a street perch village with a corridor and had an outbuilding. The latter was subordinate to the Meißner Hochstift and, after the Reformation, from 1541 to the Religious Office of Dresden's Old Town, before its land was distributed to farmers in 1607.
In the village square there were two ponds, the large puddle and the small puddle as the remains of the old Elbarm, on which the village was founded. With the relocation of the Meißner Poststrasse from the Elbe to Trachau in 1787, the first craftsmen arrived and an increasing relocation of the (still) slow village development to the southern part of the Trachauer Flur. On June 13, 1787, the licensing for the Gasthof Zum Lämmchen (later: Goldenes Lamm ) on today's Leipziger Strasse was granted, where the first election of the Trachau municipal council took place on June 29, 1839 and which was initially used as a meeting room for the Trachau municipal council served.
The growing number of inhabitants made it necessary, after the formation of an independent municipal administration in 1839 (which initially, as was customary at the time, was mainly housed in the rooms of the respective municipal council), and finally the establishment of an independent municipal office . Since 1895 this has been housed in Alttrachau 1. In addition to an expedition room (= secretariat) there was an archive room and two holding cells. The meetings of the municipal council took place in the Ratskeller (Alttrachau 14).
In January 1899, the building committee and then the local council decided to have a project for a town hall drawn up: the architect and master builder Carl Frey presented one. At the same time, the Dresden architect Gustav Hänichen handed over a second project, unsolicited and free of charge.
The local council decided in favor of the von Hänichen project, but appointed Carl Frey's company to be the executor. Both must have harmonized unusually, because in August 1899 the topping-out ceremony was celebrated and on March 18, 1900 was the inauguration of the town hall on Moritzburger Strasse, which was given an extremely varied design for a village community. However, the aim of the community of Trachau was to direct investments into the part of the town north of the Leipzig-Dresden Railway (the cutting effect of the railway line was recognized far too late); a goal that was not to be achieved until the 1920s, after Trachau was incorporated into Dresden.
Usage history
Until Trachau was incorporated into Dresden (1903)
The building was built in two parts from the start as a solid house in the form of a double house with separate entrances and stairwells at the rear. Today's Wilder-Mann-Straße 5 was used by the municipal office, number 3 was used exclusively for residential purposes.
The local health insurance for Trachau, Mickten and Übigau , the police station and two detention cells were on the first floor of the northern part of the semi-detached house . The municipal office with boardroom, waiting room, registry and registration office and the local savings bank were on the first floor. The registry office, building authority and council meeting room were arranged above it.
In the southern part of the semi-detached house (today: Wilder-Mann-Straße 3 ), apartments were planned from the outset for the employees of the community and for third-party rentals.
After the incorporation of Trachau in 1903
With the incorporation, the representative building continued to be used as a town house until around 1950 : While it remained in the southern semi-detached house for residential use, the northern part had the township, fire alarm center, welfare police, city tax office and royal registry office ; later these uses were followed by the public library and youth welfare office.
During and after the Second World War , the food card office was housed in the house until 1950 .
After 1950 the Poliklinik Mickten took over this part of the house and ran the children's department with several practicing doctors here until 1992 .
The building was empty from 1992 to 2008, and the apartments in the southern part of the duplex were gradually vacant after 1990.
It was only since the beginning of 2008 that renovation, reconstruction and conversion into a purely residential building took place, so that it is still in use today.
building
The three-storey town hall was designed as a semi-detached house from the start. The façade facing what was then Moritzburger Straße was nevertheless intended to represent a unit of the two houses, which the architect succeeded in doing: While the municipal office was elaborately designed in three-dimensional form, the southern part was given a tower that was actually not necessary for a residential building and was only executed as a representative how it was given an imposing roof design in the first place. Towards the railway line, on the southern part of the building, the residential building (!), The Trachau municipal office was written on the facade.
On the east facade a balcony was added to the office of the parish council, above the windows of the council chamber the Saxon coat of arms with flags was attached, on the street-side gable the rising sun with several vines.
Many rooms received stucco ceilings of different designs, especially the council chamber. The stairwells, especially in the northern stairwell, were richly decorated with stucco, pillars, lead-glazed windows and wrought-iron railings.
The house is a listed building.
See also
literature
- Sieghart Pietzsch: Trachau. In: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): Dresden town halls. A documentation. designXpress, Dresden 2010, pp. 128–129. Without ISBN.
Web links
- The town hall of Trachau on dresdner-stadtteile.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cultural monument: Wilder-Mann-Straße 5. Accessed on January 18, 2018.
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 15.2 " N , 13 ° 42 ′ 54.8" E