Sächsische Handelsbank Dresden (building)

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Sächsische Handelsbank, facade Waisenhausstrasse 13

The Sächsische Handelsbank building in the inner old town of Dresden was built in 1901 by the architects Schilling & Graebner . The house was destroyed in the air raids in World War II.

description

The Sächsische Handelsbank was based at Johannesring 12. The street was previously called Johannesallee and is now the western part of the Dr.-Külz-Ring between Seestrasse and Wallstrasse. The representative buildings could be erected along this ring road after the old town was de-fortified and large spaces in the area between Seevorstadt and the inner old town were opened.

The facades of the bank building, along with those of the Herzfeld office building, were one of the few commercial buildings in Dresden that were built in Art Nouveau style. The building had two facades: one facing Johannesring 10–12 and the other facing Waisenhausstrasse 13 in Dresden. Both were oriented in Art Nouveau with echoes of the Italian Renaissance. The window grilles were made by Böhme & Hennen. The wrought iron doors were designed by Trautmann & Großmann.

The sculptor Ernst Hottenroth made the models for the ornamental facade parts. The sandstone blocks were laid and processed asymmetrically. The ornamentation was used in the Rustika in a way that broke away from traditional conventions. What was new was how the ornamental jewelry in its "fresh originality " resisted or adapted to the "rough ashlar work" . "But what is new and breaks through this tradition ... that is an ornamentation used with a specific intention ... as opposed to the stone structure and inserted into the architectural structure, therein lies the new." The ornamentation had vegetal and animal figures as its subject, in part it is reminiscent of climbing plants .

literature

  • Volker Helas, Gudrun Peltz: Art Nouveau architecture in Dresden . KNOP Verlag for Architecture - Photography - Art, Dresden 1999, ISBN 3-934363-00-8 .
  • Peter Haiko (ed.): The architecture of the XX. Century - magazine for modern architecture. Representative cross-section through the 14 published years 1901 to 1914 . Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-8030-3039-0 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helas, Peltz, p. 61, image no. 82, 83; Haiko, image no. 2, image no. 3.
  2. ↑ a b Haiko, image no. 2, image no. 3.
  3. ^ Deutsche Bauzeitung, 1901, p. 1.

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 48.9 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 12.7"  E