Weixdorf town hall
The Weixdorf Town Hall was the town hall of the previously independent community of Weixdorf until 1998 and, after its incorporation in Dresden, has been the seat of the local administrative office of the village of Weixdorf since January 1, 1999 , and of the localities of Langebrück and Schönborn since 2014 . The listed building was built in 1927 and professionally renovated in 2011. A special feature of the building is that the meeting room of the local council, today the local council, was furnished in the Art Deco style and is thus one of the few examples of style of this era in Dresden; Moreover, after all the social and architectural upheavals, it can still be authentically experienced today (2018, 90 years after its construction).
history
The previously independent communities of Lausa (with Friedersdorf ), Weixdorf and Gomlitz were merged on July 1, 1914 to form the community of Lausa , which was renamed Weixdorf in 1938 . After the merger, the administrative office of the Lausa community in the old school at the church was initially continued to be used, the community board and registrar Karl Pietsch also continued to run the business. On January 2, 1915, the first professional council, Gustav Grunewald, took office.
The decentralized location of the administrative office, the cramped space and the steadily growing number of community tasks as well as the tasks of the newly founded Sparkasse von Lausa prompted Grunewald to announce to the public on December 23, 1916 that rooms were to be rented for a new administrative office. The offers received were presented to the public on March 11, 1917, and the next day the local council decided to rent rooms in the (then) Königsbrücker Straße 77, to convert them and to move the local authority there; the move took place from September 5 to 7, 1917.
This already proved to be too small during the time of the First World War , as the demands on the community continued to increase, which increased even further after the war due to further assignment of compulsory tasks: However, the political and economic situation prevented a solution.
It was not until 1923 that the new mayor, Albert Ernst, was able to propose a solution: on March 23, 1923, he applied to the municipal council for the construction of a town hall with sufficient administrative space and the establishment of a meeting room. The local council followed suit and commissioned the architects Siegfried Koritzki and Willi Metzler to each develop a design.
It was not until four years later, on April 25, 1927, after several discussions and securing the financing, that Willi Metzler's design was finally accepted, the construction decided and a building loan of 100,000 Reichsmarks taken out. The execution was entrusted to the Lausa construction company Karl Wustmann. The foundation stone was laid on July 21, 1927 and the topping-out ceremony on August 27 of the same year. The building was inaugurated as the Lausa Town Hall on April 4, 1928, and was renamed Weixdorf Town Hall (although it is located on Lausaer Flur, the largest district) it was in 1938.
Independent of internal restructuring, it is used as an administration building.
building
Due to the renaming of the community in 1938, the town hall at Weixdorfer Rathausplatz 2 now bears the name Weixdorfs, although it is located in the Lausa district. The design by Willi Metzler, which incorporates certain elements of the neo-renaissance , but also the typical architecture of the 1920s and the rural architectural style, but also uses the high windows of the conference room as a defining architectural motif, is described as simple and elegant .
On the ground floor were the community cash desk, the Giro- und Sparkasse, the registry office and the police station, on the first floor there was the conference room (which also included part of the attic floor) with the audience area and the office of the mayor, Two civil servants' apartments were built in the attic.
The meeting room, which the architect Metzler wanted to create in the then modern style of Art Deco , the successor to Art Nouveau, was a challenge for the craftsmen . Thanks to the high technical quality of the companies involved, this could not only be implemented, this public space can still be experienced today (after nine decades and different social systems) in the style of the late 1920s.
The building, which is now a listed building, was professionally renovated in 2011, especially inside, and has served as the administrative office for the Weixdorf village since 1999 and as the administrative office for the Langebrück and Schönborn municipalities of the city of Dresden since January 1, 2014.
See also
literature
- Helmut Claus, Ingo Fritzsche, Frank Kunze: Lausa-Weixdorf. In: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): Dresden town halls. A documentation. designXpress, Dresden 2010, pp. 162–163. Without ISBN.
Web links
- Brief mention of the Weixdorf town hall on dresdner-stadtteile.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cultural monument: Weixdorfer Rathausplatz 2. Accessed on January 28, 2018.
- ↑ Weixdorf village. (No longer available online.) In: dresden.de. State capital Dresden, archived from the original on February 5, 2018 ; accessed on February 4, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 42.5 " N , 13 ° 48 ′ 2.9" E