Bastei restaurant
The Bastei restaurant on Prager Strasse in Dresden is a low-rise building with a listed mural.
description
For many years after 1968, coming from the main train station, the first building on the left-hand side of Prager Strasse was the former Bastei restaurant complex. He belongs to the hotel ensemble Hotels Bastei, Königstein and Lilienstein . A dining and grill restaurant was located on the upper floor of the building. The Espresso café was opened on the ground floor, but was converted into an Intershop shortly after the hotel opened . There was also a self-service restaurant on the ground floor for hotel guests and the general public. Both floors had separate, independent kitchens. In the basement, next to staff and utility rooms, there was a company restaurant for employees of the hotel and restaurant complex.
The restaurant building was built as a two-storey building in 1968/1969 based on designs by the architects Hans Jürgen Richter and Günther Gruner . Theo Wagenführ carried out the interior design . The building was erected in a mixed construction using elements of the reinforced concrete frame assembly method and monolithic ceilings and wall panels. The facade should be designed uniformly on all sides. This was realized by standing concrete slats in front of the facade. These also served as sun protection. A folding roof formed the upper end of the low-rise building. A pergola-like approach connects the restaurant with the shops and hotels of the complex.
The restaurant had 597 seats inside and 120 seats on the terrace.
| Area | Seats |
|---|---|
| Common room | 236 |
| Grill restaurant with bar | 102 |
| Self-service restaurant | 226 |
| Espresso with a bar | 33 |
| Total inside | 597 |
| Summer outdoor spaces | 120 |
| Company canteen | 90 |
A twelve meter wide and six meter high mural “Dresden greets its guests” in Meißner ceramic painting was created by Kurt Sillack and Rudolf Lipowski . The painting shows “a stocky young woman ... her arms [spread] to receive her. In her right hand she held the same bouquet of flowers - a friendly gesture of welcome ”.
Together with the Rundkino , the Pragerzeile , the former Interhotels Bastei / Königstein / Lilienstein and the former Interhotel Newa , the building formed the ensemble of the Prager Straße that defined the cityscape until the 1990s.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Burger King , New Yorker and the Bertelsmann Book Club moved the Dresden casino from the Saxon casinos into the restaurant. The free space in front of the low-rise building was built over at the end of the 1990s, so that the painting is now covered and the building can no longer be seen from Wiener Platz. In 2005, Deutsche Interhotel Holding GmbH & Co. KG converted the then vacant building. The folding roof and the concrete slats were removed, the building completely gutted and the facade glazed all around. The outlet store TK Maxx moved in .
Web links
literature
- Dietmar Bayer: Hotel and restaurant complex “Interhotel Prager Straße” in Dresden . In: Deutsche Bauakademie and Bund Deutscher Architekten (ed.): German architecture . No. 11 . Berlin November 1970, p. 660-666 .
- Walter May, Werner Pampel and Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979.
Individual evidence
- ↑ May et al., No. 1 (i) Restaurant Bastei
- ↑ Dresden has big plans . In: Berliner Zeitung . September 27, 1968 ( online [accessed March 14, 2018]).
- ↑ a b Jürgen Tietz: Fragment of Modernity - Prager Strasse in Dresden is fighting for its future . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 3, 2004 ( [1] ).
- ^ Catrin Steinbach: Plans, projects and construction dates for Prager Straße . In: Dresdner Latest News . March 2, 2004.
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 34.3 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 3.4" E