Shipping building (Dresden)
The shipping building , also known as the bridge maintenance building, is a listed building on the Terrassenufer in Dresden and is now used as a restaurant.
description
The house with the address Terrassenufer 1 stands on the officially nameless ramp, once known as the "Appareille", which leads as part of a pedestrian zone from the Terrassenufer to the Schloßplatz . It is located a few meters west of the confluence of Brühlschen Gasse and Terrassenufer, in the north of Dresden's inner city . The front side in the north of the shipping building faces the nearby Elbe , the rear and the eastern wall, on the other hand, are built directly onto the Brühlsche Terrasse wall, which is made of Elbe sandstone , and thus border directly on part of the old Dresden fortifications . Other buildings in the immediate vicinity are the Augustusbrücke , the landing stages of the Saxon steamship, as well as the secondary building and the estate . Until 1861, the Brühl Garden Pavilion stood on the small bastion, the terrace ledge immediately to the east of the shipping building .
In the ground plan, the shipping building is only around four by 17 meters. Its two floors and the roof terrace, from which there is a view of the Neustädter Elbe bank , are used for catering purposes . The house is accessible via the entrance on the ground floor as well as a nine-step staircase that leads from the Brühl's terrace about 1.5 meters down to the roof terrace, which in turn is connected to the inside of the building by a glass roof hatch. The west side consists of a window axis, the front side is seven-axis, with the second, fourth and sixth axis of the ground floor having doors instead of the high rectangular windows. The ground floor is covered with sandstone masonry, while the upper floor is plastered in a light, natural-colored tone. Over both floors, pilaster strips extend in the middle between the window axes up to the eaves , above which the boundary wall of the roof terrace connects. Above the main portal in the center axis, which is the only opening building up is not horizontal, but with a segment arc terminates, a is medallion attached. The relief shows the French researcher Denis Papin (1647–1712) in a frock coat with a pressure cooker sitting in front of a brick oven.
history
At the beginning of the 19th century, today's Terrassenufer was not yet a street, but only served as an initially unpaved mooring and storage area, to which the so-called "Appareille" (French: "Rampe") was raised in the 1820s. At that time, the original version of the house was created, which was initially only one story. The building was used by the bridge master or bridge keeper of the Augustus Bridge for work purposes. The Dresdner Bridge Office was before the introduction of city regulations in 1832 one of the main administrative offices. The bridge master administered the joint assets of the Elbe bridge, whose main source of income was the bridge toll , and the Kreuzkirche . He was appointed by the city council and was usually a councilor himself . The bridge construction yard was located in the immediate vicinity of the building.
The house survived the Elbe flood in 1845 relatively unscathed. In the 19th century the building was raised by two lower storeys so that its flat roof was flush with the level of the Brühl Terrace. The middle window axis of the house formed a double axis on the two upper floors. The main entrance was then in the third axis from the left; the Papin medallion in the central axis was originally placed over a window. The medallion is possibly related to the presence of the steamship " Queen Maria " on the Upper Elbe from 1837. It was intended to pay tribute to Denis Papin, who invented the Papin pot and thus pioneered the development of the steam engine and pressure cooker.
Affected by the air raids on Dresden in 1945 and then slightly rebuilt, the shipping building served as a warehouse for Mitropa during the GDR , which was responsible for supplying the “White Fleet”, the ships of today's Saxon steamship. After 1990 it was owned by Sächsische Dampfschiffahrt, but was empty and fell into disrepair. Until it was made burglar-proof in early 1996, the house served the homeless as a sleeping place. In February 1998, an employee of the Saxon Steamship Company discovered a body on the first floor that had been lying there for two years.
After a change of ownership in 1998, the building, now protected as a cultural monument , was extensively restored in 2000 . First, workers tore down the two upper floors, which were added later. The first floor façade was retained and a floor was added in the same style. The Papin medallion was also renewed. In November 2000 the " Radeberger Spezialausschank" opened in the building with space for 80 guests in the building and up to 70 more on the roof terrace. For this purpose four large copper tanks were installed in the shipping building. The restaurant also uses adjacent rooms within the Brühl's terrace. When the Elbe floods in 2002 , the flood was around 2.5 meters high on the ground floor. A high water mark on the west facade reminds of this , showing the Elbe level at 9.40 meters. With a peak value of 8.76 meters, the Elbe flood in 2013 also flooded the ground floor. The building can now be protected by a flexible protective wall system made of steel planks, which can be quickly installed in the event of a flood.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cultural monuments on the Dresden themed city map , cf. List of cultural monuments in old town I (Dresden)
- ↑ Katrin Richter: Do you know our city? In: Dresdner Latest News , November 1, 2003, page B 4.
- ↑ Stadtwiki Dresden: Terrassenufer
- ↑ Bernd Moschke: Skeleton from a house on the terrace bank puzzles the police . In: Dresdner Latest News , February 6, 1998, page 11.
- ↑ Skeletonized corpse now identified . In: Dresdner Latest News , March 28, 1998, page 15.
- ↑ Genia Bleier: The Radeberger is now (almost) part of the Semperoper. A beer bar for 2.5 million marks is being built in the former bridge maintenance building . In: Dresdner Latest News , August 10, 2000, page 13.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 13.1 ″ N , 13 ° 44 ′ 23.8 ″ E