Settlement of the Dresden savings and construction association Gruna

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Building on Frauensteiner Platz with corner bay window
Facade detail of a building on the straight bridge

The settlement of the Dresden savings and construction association Gruna is a settlement east of the Landgraben on Frauensteiner Platz in the Dresden district of Gruna . Like the neighboring garden housing estate Dresden-Gruna , this largest estate of the Dresden savings and construction association was designed by the architect Paul Beck. Together with the GEWOBAG settlement, both changed the rural character of the district.

About the character of the settlement

The settlement was built between 1926 and 1928 in a traditional style with subtle expressionist elements. "The use of traditionalist forms [...] is more cautious" than in the garden home settlement adjacent to the west.

The facades on Straight Steg show "triangular protrusions" and triangular dormer windows. In Zschirnsteinstrasse, the house entrances were decorated with "recessed and stretched round arches". The window and door frames are color-coded. The buildings on Frauensteiner Platz have corner bay windows facing the street, while loggias with straight or semicircular ends can be seen on the courtyard side .

Like the garden home settlement, the settlement of the Dresden savings and building association was partially destroyed during the air raids on Dresden in 1945. The partial restoration was followed by gradual decline until 1990. Together with the Gartenheimsiedlung, however, it was gradually modernized by the new owner, the Aufbau housing association , and repaired in accordance with historical preservation criteria.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Construction facilities of the Dresdner Spar- und Bauverein at a glance
  2. ↑ Lupfer, p. 227 (Historisches Register / Historical index: Expressionismus / Expressionist… 231 / Traditionalistisches Bauen der 20er und 30er / Traditionalist Style in the Twenties and Thirties… 231)
  3. ↑ Lupfer, No. 231 (settlement of the savings and construction association, 1924, Paul Beck)

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Loewel et al. (Ed.): Housing cooperatives in Dresden. A fifty year anniversary. Published by the Dresden Housing Cooperative Working Group. Michel Sandstein Verlag, Dresden 2004
  • Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra and Martin Wörner (eds.): Architecture guide Dresden . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 .
  • Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .

Web links

Commons : Siedlung des Spar- und Bauverein Dresden-Gruna  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 56.6 ″  N , 13 ° 47 ′ 46.2 ″  E