Town hall Wachwitz
The town hall Wachwitz (correct: the municipal office of Wachwitz ) was from 1901 to 1930 the town hall of the until then independent municipality Wachwitz in the east of Dresden . After 1930 the post office was located in it until the beginning of the 1990s, and from the 1950s to 1989 the meeting room of the local council was the meeting room of the residential district committee (WBA) of the National Front . Since its renovation, it has been a purely residential building.
history
On the basis of the Saxon constitution, the end of the z. Some of the feudal associations that existed from the Middle Ages were abolished by law in 1834 and the manor rule that had existed for Wachwitz until then also ended at this point in time. For the Saxon rural community code of 1838 , which came into force on May 1, 1839, community leaders and community elders, i.e. H. introduced its own community self-government. In addition, the municipal election took place for the first time on March 23, 1839 in the Königs Weinberg restaurant . On this day 63 parishioners with voting rights appeared, who were divided into four classes by resolution, in order to have them represented by committee members in the parish council. The first class was made up of the landowners (who voted 3 committee members), the second class the gardeners and vineyard owners (they chose 4 committee persons) , the third class the cottagers (residents who only owned a house but no field, 3 people) and finally the non-resident parishioners (mostly the servants , 2 committee members). This community committee formed in this way then elected the community board, from which the master carpenter Johann Gottlob Hanke received the most votes. The mill owner Johann Gottlob Lehmann was elected as the community elder as the second head of the community.
The community board, sworn in after the election, was responsible for the administration of the community with poor relief and cash and file management, the community elder, who was also sworn in, took over the supervision of the school system and the local police.
In 1849, when the rural community code was revised , both offices were merged, in 1884 the class division was reduced to three classes (farm, vineyard, gardener, villa owner - 6 people; house owners with up to 1000 m² of land - 4 people; non-residents - 2 people), 1912 it was reduced to two classes and finally abolished on November 10, 1918 and universal, equal and direct suffrage was introduced.
From 1901 onwards, the parish council was given the title of mayor , 1901–1926 Paul Walther (parish council since 1900) and 1926–1930 Alfred Rückauer.
Until 1901, the administration itself, as was customary at the time, was mainly housed in the rooms of the respective community council; the municipal council met in the rooms of restaurants, mainly at the place where it was founded in "Königs Weinberg". Paul Walther, as the municipal council, had the goal from taking office in 1900 to bring together the now fragmented municipal administration and to offer a municipal administration corresponding to the time for the population, which had grown considerably due to the influx.
While the forced incorporation in 1921, in which 22 villages came to Dresden (including the neighboring Loschwitz ), was not an issue in Wachwitz, the incorporation was first the subject of a municipal council meeting in November 1928 after a first advance by the city of Dresden in October of the same year . After long negotiations, the incorporation, initially aimed at January 1, 1930, was delayed again by the opponents, but no longer prevented: The last meeting of the municipal council took place on October 13, 1930, in whose meeting room in the town hall Wachwitz handed over on October 15 Ceremony by the mayor of Wachwitz, Alfred Rückauer, the community business to the present mayor of Dresden, Bernhard Blüher .
building
Use until incorporation
In 1901, after the demolition of “Leischkes Hof” (later: Dorfplatz 9, today (2018): Altwachwitz 9; Karl Gottlob Leischke himself was the parish council from 1858 to 1863), it was possible to set up an own parish office. Although the location is unfortunate in terms of urban planning, the spacious building was set up in addition to service apartments for the municipal administration, local tax collection, the school fund and the local court. The meeting room for the council was accessible from the rear. The "day watchman", d. H. the local police officer, however, lived in the side building of the municipal office (today (2018): Altwachwitz 9a), where the detention cell was also located. The fire extinguishing depot with depot tower also found its final place on the property of the municipal office.
In 1906, on the occasion of the silver wedding anniversary of Emperor Wilhelm II. And Empress Auguste Viktoria, the “People's Library” of Wachwitz opened here .
Further uses followed later, which were also accommodated in the house, the association savings bank, the giro bank, the registration office and the housing office.
After the incorporation
On February 1, 1914, an imperial post office was opened in Wachwitz , which also moved into the town hall a few months later, but was housed in a different building (then Pillnitzer Strasse 14) from 1918 to 1931. In 1931 the post office moved into the now no longer needed municipal office: from 1931 it was "Postamt Dresden-Wachwitz", after the introduction of the postcodes "Postamt Dresden N 55", from 1966 "Postamt Dresden N 55 - 8054" and finally until 1991 as a branch of the Loschwitz post office "Postamt Dresden 54".
With the closure of the post office, the public use of the building ended; it is now in private hands and is used as a residential building, just like the former outbuilding. Since the renovation, it has been labeled Alte Post on its front side .
Due to the multiple changes in use, the Wachwitz town hall, like its former outbuilding, is not a listed building.
literature
- Rainer Ehlich, Claudia Müller, Otto-R. Wenzel: Wachwitz - history of a fishing and wine village. Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 2000. Without ISBN. In particular, pp. 63–69.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 15.6 " N , 13 ° 49 ′ 56.4" E