Old cafeteria Dresden
The Alte Mensa Dresden (also Alte Mensa or Alte Mensa Mommsenstraße ) is a canteen in Dresden. It is located on the main campus of the Dresden University of Technology in the Räcknitz district of Dresden . The northern main entrance leads to Mommsenstrasse and the side entrances to the west to Helmholtzstrasse and to the east to Dülferstrasse. The building, which opened in 1925, is run by the Dresden Student Union and claims to be the oldest cafeteria in Germany. Immediately afterwards is the former rectorate building at Mommsenstrasse 15 as an example of socialist classicism .
Structure and description of the old canteen
The house was opened on November 15, 1925 as the first cafeteria in Germany and offered space for up to 900 guests. Various expansions followed by 1959 (including as part of the construction of the directly adjacent rectorate building) up to the present size. The Dülferstraße ballroom is located on the upper floor of the southern part of the building, which was built in 1957 - one of the ballrooms of the TU Dresden. Originally it was also used as a dining room. Today it is mainly used for celebratory and special events, meetings of the Senate and the Senate Commission (if the capacity of the Rectorate at Momesenstraße 11 is insufficient), as well as in individual cases for teaching and examination operations (room code M13 / DÜLF).
From February 2004 to the beginning of 2007 the building was completely renovated and reopened on January 15, 2007. In the course of the renovation , the atrium in the middle of the building was converted to serve food and covered with 470 m² of solar control glass. The “extensive renovation and partial redesign of the representative overall complex” was awarded the 2nd prize of the Plauen Building Prize 2007 (after a new building). The new roof, the roof and supporting elements of which are made of glass, received the 2nd innovation prize for architecture and glass in 2009 .
The cafeteria Zebradiele with 100 seats is attached to the cafeteria . In addition, the student union's catering service uses the kitchen rooms in the basement.
Food is distributed at a square counter in the middle of the ground floor (so-called Brat² , pronounced Bratquadrat ). The dishes are prepared in several large kitchens in the basement and then lifts take them to the serving counter above. Four large dining rooms with a total of 800 seats are located around the serving area. In the northeast, east and south, these are continued in three outdoor terraces with a further 250 seats.
Designed for 3,500 guests per day, in 2007 up to 6,000 guests visited the renovated cafeteria every day on peak days; in the winter semester 2009, values of almost 7,000 lunches were achieved on a few days.
Description of the rectorate building
The building complex of the rectorate building was built from 1950 to around 1956 in a total of 3 stages, primarily according to plans by Karl Wilhelm Ochs . The actual rectorate building, which was completed in 1952, is planned to be two-story with a usable area of 8,350 square meters and built in brick construction with a plastered facade, structured with artificial stones, directly adjacent to the old canteen . Further measures included the former comradeship house on Helmholtzstrasse in the complex. The student house on Mommsenstrasse, which was built in 1925, and the former National Socialist Kameradschaftshaus (1935–36, architect: Wilhelm Jost ) on Helmholtzstrasse were integrated.
An atrium and two garden courtyards divide the entire interior between Mommsen, Helmholtz, Hallwachs and Dülferstrasse. The landscape architect Werner Bauch designed the open spaces.
Todays use
After several renovation phases, the complex is now run as the cafeteria of the Dresden Student Union, and has parts of the administration of the university and the faculty for electrical engineering and information technology (Mommsenstr. 15). The rectorate is now in Mommsenstr. 11 has been housed.
literature
- Walter May, Werner Pampel and Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979.
- Estate of the landscape architect Werner Bauch in the university archive of the Technical University of Dresden
- Estate of the architect Ochs in the Architekturmuseum Berlin
Web links
- Details on the old canteen Mommsenstrasse . Appearance on the website of the Studentenwerk Dresden
- What happened in the student union in 2007 . In: SpiegelEi - magazine of the Studentenwerk Dresden , issue 3/2008
- A cook seldom gets along alone . In: SpiegelEi - magazine of the Studentenwerk Dresden , issue 10/2008
Individual evidence
- ^ Initiative Plauen: 2007 building price
- ↑ Award for constructive glass construction . In: Bauphysik , 31 (2009), Heft 3, S. 173, ISSN 0171-5445
- ↑ Christmas and Christmas dinner - an inseparable topic . In: Fried Egg . Issue 22, year 2009, p. 3
- ↑ May et al., P. 55 No. 83 (5) [Rectorate building with cafeteria]
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 36.3 " N , 13 ° 43 ′ 35.5" E