Rathaus Weißer Hirsch
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The Weißer Hirsch town hall is the name given to two buildings that were used as the town hall by the independent community of Weißer Hirsch . In the period from 1894 to 1905 this was the 1st town hall with today's address Luboldtstraße 24 and from 1905 to 1921, when it was incorporated into Dresden, the 2nd town hall with today's address Bautzner Landstraße 17. They were both the seat of the municipal administration and also included the counseling rooms of the municipal council. Both buildings still exist today (as of 2018) and are used as residential buildings in a representative style (Luboldtstraße) or medical center (Bautzner Landstraße).
history
Starting from a winegrower's house built in 1664, whose owner at the time received the license to drink in 1688 and was known as the Fuhrmannsschänke because of its location near the heather "Zum Weißen Hirsch", this pub finally gave the entire district its name. In 1726 this was given the status of “ chancellery property”, combined with a number of privileges . In the 18th century, a small community of fruit and vegetable farmers developed around the estate, who also worked as farmers. The property privileges were abolished by law in 1834 and the current rural community led community leaders and community committees for the first time in early 1839 on the basis of the Saxon rural community order of 1838 . H. have their own municipal administration. As was customary at the time, this was mainly housed in the rooms of the respective community council.
The soap manufacturer Ludwig Küntzelmann, in turn, bought the old “Weißer Hirsch” estate in 1872 and divided the estate fields into parcels, on which “a colony of villas and summer resorts” was created. At Küntzelmann's request to the Ministry of the Interior, the White Deer was given the addition of "climatic spa" in 1875. The further development of the White Deer into a health resort of European standing was largely shaped by Heinrich Lahmann . He leased Fridabad in 1887 and opened it the following year as “Dr. Lahmanns Physiatric Sanatorium “new. He rented a total of 15 villas in the vicinity of the sanatorium, which served as guest accommodation. Within a few years, Lahmann's sanatorium had achieved world fame and was visited by up to 7,000 wealthy patients annually.
1. City Hall
In 1882 Karl August Adam was the head of the community, the community administration was housed in his home at Loschwitzer Str. 1 (today (2018): Plattleite 68) and with the rapid development of the place, the idea of having its own town hall first appeared around 1888. In 1893, the architect Friedrich Richard Schaeffer became the community chairman, in whose apartment Bautzner Strasse 8 (today (2018): Bautzner Landstrasse 15) the administration was now housed, for which, however, due to his job, he also worked out the plans for a first town hall. It was inaugurated in 1894, the local savings bank had its headquarters next to the administration, and official apartments were also housed in the house.
The 1st town hall was located at Schulstraße 2 b, today (2018): Luboldtstraße 24 ( (location) ). The entrance was located directly on the corner of the building and was labeled City Hall above it . However, it soon no longer met the increased administrative requirements.
2. City Hall
Construction and use until 1921
While the son of the architect Friedrich Schaeffer, Ferdinand Schaeffer, hoped that the municipal administration would settle in his planned building (the Imperial Post Office finally moved in with him in 1905 ), the municipal council decided on a building that was only named in modern times Villa Stange received. The building was probably built by the bricklayer foreman Karl August Haase and on behalf of the retired Russian State Councilor Nikolaus Stange, and the local administration and savings bank moved into the new building at today's Bautzner Landstrasse 17 ( (location) ) in 1905 (for unknown reasons, it was initially only called the municipal office ); from 1907 it was officially named Rathaus Weißer Hirsch .
In the building were e.g. T. gradually, housed as institutions:
- Commercial, passport and registration matters,
- Registration office for residents and foreigners,
- Sparkasse, lost property office and police,
- Community Orphan Council and
- the registry office.
A building surveyor also had his seat in the building.
Use after 1921
On January 7, 1921, the independent place ceased to exist, on this day the forced incorporation into Dresden was carried out. After the end of the independent municipal administration, the city of Dresden set up the municipal spa administration in the building , which had its seat here until 1939, when the Second World War broke out. The Sparkasse also stayed in the building until 1945.
In 1939 an economic office was set up in the premises of the spa administration, which issued food cards and purchase vouchers for, for example, bicycles, prams or kitchen equipment, and which initially continued its activities after 1945 and gradually ceased it until 1950; its rooms were partially converted into apartments. In 1950 the house went to the Stadtsparkasse Dresden , which, after the merger and renaming in Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden, still operated a branch until 2008.
In 2011/2012 the building was extensively renovated and now serves as a medical center.
See also
literature
- Horst Milde: White stag. In: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): Dresden town halls. A documentation. designXpress, Dresden 2010, pp. 123–124. Without ISBN.
Web links
- The 1st and 2nd town hall of Weißer Hirsch on dresdner-stadtteile.de