Secondary school (Dresden)
The secondary school is a historic building in the city center of Dresden .
location
The secondary building is in a prominent location on Brühl's Terrace in the inner old town . The Elbe flows a few meters to the north . The building offers an overview of the Neustädter Elbe bank opposite . The neighboring buildings are the Ständehaus and the Art Academy . The Terrassengasse runs to the rear of the secondary building, to the east there is a flight of stairs to the Brühlsche Terrasse in the course of the Münzgasse .
Construction
The neo-baroque building, erected in 1897, is executed in a southern German Rococo variety. In contrast to its neighboring buildings, from which it stands out due to its cheerfulness, it appears rather small and graceful. This is reinforced by the light and pale paint on the facade. Its light architecture, which is rather playful in relation to the surroundings, meant that the secondary school is now considered the most successful neo-baroque small building in Dresden.
The two-storey building, seen from the terrace, has a curved, copper-clad mansard roof and vine-decorated windows. The entrance area on the terrace is crowned by a curved gable, the portal is framed by Ionic columns . If you look at the Secondogenitur from the east, i.e. from the staircase to the Brühlsche Terrasse on Münzgasse, you will notice that it is very narrow, as it was fitted into the gap of a few meters between the terrace and the Terrassengasse behind it.
After the house was destroyed in World War II , it was rebuilt in 1964. An old baroque portal, the “Bacchus Portal” , was used on the back of the Terrassengasse , which comes from the Hellerschänke on the Dresdner Heller , which was finally closed in 1956 and is probably a work by Balthasar Permoser .
history
Predecessor structure
The Brühl library was located in the place of the current building . It was one of Brühl's glories , the representative buildings built here by the Saxon State Minister Heinrich von Brühl , who received the site as a gift in 1740. The building was erected in 1748 under the direction of Johann Christoph Knöffel . As early as 1768, the Electoral Saxon Library bought the holdings of the Graeflich-Brühl Library, which, with its 62,000 volumes after the Seven Years' War, was comparable to the Leipzig University Library .
From 1789 to 1791 the building was converted into the Old Art Academy. The painters Anton Graff , Caspar David Friedrich , Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld , the sculptors Franz Pettrich , Ernst Hähnel , Johannes Schilling , Robert Henze and the architects Gottfried Semper , Hermann Nicolai and Constantin Lipsius worked here . In 1895, the art academy moved to its monumental new building , which is in the immediate vicinity. The old Brühl library building was then torn down.
Current structure
In the years 1896 and 1897, the building, which still exists today, was built in place of the former Brühl library according to plans by the then court architect Gustav Frölich (1859–1933). Stylistically, it is reminiscent of the previous building and is therefore sometimes the only evidence from the time of the Brühl's redesign of the site around 1750. In reality, however, it is a new building, which in a certain way reflects the great times of the Brühlsche Terrasse in the 18th century seems.
At first it housed the library and collection of copper engravings of the second-born Prince Johann Georg and was also owned as a building, which is why the Latin name " secondary" resulted. However, the building should not be confused with the homonymous residence of the second-born prince , who was in today's Blüherpark . The literary scholar and later politician Herman Anders Krüger worked as a sub-librarian from 1901 onwards in the secondary library . From 1918 the art academy again used the rooms for special exhibitions. After the collections of the second-born prince were relocated in 1931, the secondary school functioned as an exhibition building for the New Masters Gallery until 1945 . On February 13, 1945, during the air raids on Dresden , it burned down completely.
After years of ruin, the house was rebuilt in 1963 and 1964. Since then, it has housed various dining establishments under the name of Secondogenitur . When the neighboring property to the south was being built on in 1989, still in the last few months of the GDR era, the secondary school was included in the newly emerging hotel complex and the two were connected by a bridge over Terrassengasse. Between 1945 and 1989 it was a relatively free-standing building with a large southern forecourt that merged into Neumarkt . Today, the secondary school is operated as a café and wine restaurant in the Dresden Hilton Hotel .
Rietscheldenkmal
In 1876, directly in front of the secondary school, a bust of the sculptor Ernst Rietschel was erected on the Brühl's terrace , who had his studio in the Brühl's garden pavilion from 1833 to 1856 . This bronze bust was created by his student Johannes Schilling and cast in the Lauchhammer art foundry in double life size. It is located on a column with three reliefs that stand for history, poetry and religion. The three life-size boys sitting on a pedestal around the column, fully sculpted, symbolize drawing, chiselling and modeling, i.e. the main forms of sculptural activity.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dresden secondary school. In: visit-sie-dresden.de. Retrieved July 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Manfred Wille : Dresden hospitality - from the beginnings to the present: A brief cultural history of the hospitality industry in Dresden . Ed .: Matthias Geisler. A. & R. Adam, 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024523-7 , pp. 111 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Hellerschänke. In: Dresdner-Stadtteile.de. Retrieved January 28, 2018 .
- ^ History of the map collection. SLUB Dresden , accessed on July 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Ute Koch: expulsion of the Maecenas from Saxony. Courtly processes of change using the example of Heinrich Graf von Brühl. European International Research Training Group at the Technical University of Dresden, accessed on July 10, 2013 (dissertation project).
- ↑ Brühl Terrace Dresden. In: visit-sie-dresden.de. Retrieved July 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Secondary education. In: Dresden-und-Sachsen.de. Archived from the original on March 24, 2012 ; Retrieved July 10, 2013 .
- ^ Hotel Hilton Dresden - Postmodernism. Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., accessed on July 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Brühl Terrace. State Palaces, Castles and Gardens of Saxony , accessed on July 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Secondary education. In: Dresden-Lexikon.de. Retrieved July 10, 2013 .
- ^ Photo of the free-standing building in the collection of historical photographs of the Secondary School in the Deutsche Fotothek
- ↑ Brühl Terrace. Ernst Rietschel Monument. In: Dresden-und-Sachsen.de. Archived from the original on September 30, 2013 ; Retrieved July 10, 2013 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 12 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 26.5" E