Schillerplatz (Dresden)
| Schillerplatz | |
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 View over Schillerplatz to the west |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Dresden |
| District | Blowjoke |
| Created | 6th century |
| Newly designed | around 1893 |
| Confluent streets | Loschwitzer Bridge, Tolkewitzer Strasse, Bruckner Strasse, Hüblerstrasse, Naumannstrasse, ( Loschwitzer Strasse ) |
| Buildings | Blue miracle , Schillergarten |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , public transport , car traffic |
The Blasewitzer Schillerplatz is a historic village green and a traffic junction in Dresden outside the city center . The area around the square named after Friedrich Schiller is now considered the center of the district of Blasewitz .
The city of Dresden has another Schillerplatz in the village of Langebrück, which was incorporated in 1999 .
Location and traffic
The square is located on the southern driveway to the Blue Wonder (officially Loschwitzer Bridge ) not far from the forest park in the Blasewitz district . Several main streets run from here in the direction of the old town and the neighboring districts in the south-east of Dresden.
To the west of Schillerplatz there is a central stop in Loschwitzer Straße , which is the most important public transport transfer point in Dresden outside the city center. The tram lines 6 and 12, the city buses 61, 63 and 65 as well as the combined city / regional bus line 84/309 meet here without private transport . Most of the bus routes cross the Blue Wonder. The former tram route over the Elbe to Pillnitz , however, was shut down in 1985 to relieve the bridge.
At its end on the river, the Elbe Cycle Path touches Schillerplatz and the Blasewitz station of the Saxon Steamship Service is just a few meters away .
history
Excavations have shown that as early as the 6th century a fishing village was founded in a semicircle around today's square.
Schillerplatz received its current urban design in the 19th century with the rise of Blasewitz as a villa suburb of Dresden . The square was previously important as access to ferries that made it possible to cross over to the other side of the Elbe. From there a trade route led over the Loschwitzgrund to Upper Lusatia . The Schillerplatz emerged from this hamlet in the village of Blasewitz.
It was named after Schiller because of the mention of Johanne Justine Renner , who served Schiller in an inn on the square (today's Schillergarten ) and made an appearance in Wallenstein's warehouse .
Until 1921, Schillerplatz remained the center of the suburb, which was now completely surrounded by Dresden. Blasewitz was mainly inhabited by wealthy and influential Dresdeners, who preferred the lower taxes in Blasewitz. As a result of the destruction of Dresden's inner city in 1945 , in the first years after the war, the square, along with the preserved district centers in Löbtau and Neustadt, partially took on the tasks of the inner city.
This partial function has survived to the present. At Schillerplatz, two shopping streets cross with an above-average number of bank branches, many shops and a multiplex cinema . In addition to six banks, around 105 shops and service providers have settled in the Wilhelminian style houses on and around Schillerplatz. The city district office of the city district office of Blasewitz and an extensive medical center are also in the immediate vicinity .
When the Elbe floods in August 2002 , all of the lower-lying areas of the Schillerplatz and its buildings were under water, but despite its absolute proximity to the Elbe, the place is too high for complete flooding.
On November 10, 2009, a Schiller linden tree was inaugurated on the square on the occasion of Friedrich Schiller's 250th birthday. In the 20th century there were two Dresden memorial trees of the same name in the Schillergarten , but both no longer exist.
Development
Schillerplatz was only marginally damaged in World War II and so the development has survived to the present day. This is mainly characterized by the Wilhelminian era and, with its closed construction, is the densest development in Blasewitz. Just a few meters in the side streets, the individual development with " city villas " , which is more typical for Blasewitz, begins . There are shops in the rows of houses on Schillerplatz. As an example of the transformation of a fishing village into the center of “ suburbanization ” in the 19th century and due to the technical development (driveway of the Blue Wonder), Schillerplatz was part of the Dresden Elbe Valley from 2004 until the World Heritage title was withdrawn in 2009 . What is unique about the place is the observation of the visual relationship to the Elbe slopes on the other side of the Elbe and their development, especially the suspension railway .
The historic “Fleischersche Schenke”, now known as the Schillergarten , is located on the part of the square that slopes down from the Elbe . There are also other village buildings that are reminiscent of the original use of the square. The house where the painter Woldemar Hottenroth was born is at No. 10 Schillerplatz.
Since the mid-1990s, existing gaps have been closed by modern commercial buildings and the Schillergalerie shopping center (opening in December 2000) was built. The construction of the central Schillerplatz stop (completed in June 2001) also changed the character of the square. During the development of the last free plot of land in the area of the central bus stop, the building materials were laboriously brought in using a tower crane from a nearby alternative property over the closed rear buildings in order to avoid the temporary closure of the bus stop (and thus a decrease in the number of walk-in customers).
literature
- Folke Stimmel u. A .: Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 , p. 369.
- Wilhelm Ruprecht Frieling , The Karajan from Schillerplatz . Report about an unforgettable Dresden People's Police.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Integrated Urban Development Concept Dresden - Report 2009. ( Memento from January 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 8.2 MB) on dresden.de , p. 28.
- ↑ The unknown painter , in: Potz Blitz , house newspaper of the Schiller Garden in Dresden-Blasewitz, November 2005, p. 18.
- ↑ Leafed through the newspaper archive: Neue Zentralhaltestelle , in: Dresdner Bezirkzeitung, Blasewitzer Zeitung edition , 6/2013, p. 4.
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 7.6 ″ N , 13 ° 48 ′ 24.9 ″ E