Siemenshaus (Dresden)
| Siemenshaus, Sidonienstraße 18 | |
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 View of the Siemenshaus seen from the main train station |
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| Data | |
| place | Dresden, Seevorstadt |
| Client | Immopact Sidonia GmbH & CoKG |
| Construction year | 1936, 1945 damaged: reconstruction in 1946 |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 2 '28.4 " N , 13 ° 44' 9.4" E |
| particularities | |
| Office building in Dresden | |
The Siemens house in Dresden Seevorstadt Sidonienstraße 18 was the Dresden branch of the former Siemens AG and was used in 1945 by VEB power-plant Dresden.
history
Until 1945
The Siemens group founded a branch in Dresden in Prager Strasse in 1903. Their small offices soon no longer met the requirements, so they moved to Wiener Platz and later to Devrientstrasse. Siemens acquired the property at Sidonienstraße 18 for a new building. On the property there was an older, small commercial building, whose users were in the alcohol-free restaurants and the restaurant Zur Weißen Runde in 1928 and the offices of the Romanian consulate in 1929 . The new office building for the Siemens group was built according to plans from Paul Wolf's architectural office . It is a large rectangular building with 4 floors and a converted attic. The storage rooms and workshops were located in the basement. The monolithic building had 15 window axes on the street front and 3 on each gable side. The stairwell is on the 6th left axis next to the main entrance on the courtyard side. Small sculptural decorative elements adorn the simple building with a plastered facade. By changing the use of electrical energy from direct current to three-phase current, the output volume increased enormously. The production of electric drive and prime movers required a greater effort. Additional workshops were set up in Dresden to compensate.
After 1945
The city was badly damaged by the air raids on Dresden in 1945. No buildings on Wiener Platz remained intact. The Siemens house was badly damaged and burned down up to the third floor. The first security measures and the reconstruction of the building began at the end of 1945. The Siemens concern was expropriated with the order number 142 of October 30, 1945 of the Soviet military administration and commander in chief of the group of the Soviet occupation troops in Germany and declared to the public property. On January 1, 1949, united the operating parts of the electrical engineering for the combination of state-owned enterprises of electrical engineering in the expenditure incurred in July 1948 Association with headquarters in Leipzig. In 1953 the two companies Otto-Buchwitz-Werk and VEM Starkstrom-Anlagenbau were merged to form VEB Starkstrom-Anlagenbau Dresden . The administration and assembly warehouse now remained in Siemenshaus Sidonienstraße 18. The company VEB Starkstrom-Anlagenbau Dresden was restructured and enlarged to become VEB Elektromaschinenbau in the 1970s. Until 1980, the Siemeshaus was required by the combine as a branch for data processing and organization. Few offices in the building were still in use around 1990. In the 1960s, some conservation measures were carried out. The sanitary facilities were also renovated. However, no further maintenance work was carried out and the building was left to decay. Nonetheless, some rooms in the building were also used by third parties: From around 1980, the “Office for City Traffic”, a subordinate facility of the then Dresden City Council, had its seat in the building. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and its dissolution or integration as the traffic planning department in the now urban planning office of the city of Dresden, these rooms were finally given up in 1992.
From 2020
After 75 years now, Wiener Platz - Ost is to be rebuilt. Two buildings that survived the bombing inferno are protected as existing, the Siemenshaus and the former management building of the Reichsbahn . The company Immopact Sidonien GmbH & CoKG became the new owner of Siemenshaus and wants to renovate it and use it as an office building. The first work has now started.
literature
- Uwe Hofmann: Wiener Platz Ost - Living is not possible here. In: DNN . 19th December 2018
- Kay Haufe: Start of construction on the former Siemenshaus. In: Saxon newspaper . August 1, 2020, p. 23
- Author collective Dr. Hans Radandt , Mr. Fischer (History Commission): History of the VEB "Otto Buchwitz" Starkstrom-Anlagenbau Dresden. Dresden 1983, Issue 1: The capitalist predecessor companies.
- Werkecho company newspaper of April 23, 1979; Organ of the SED company party organization of the VEB Otto Buchwitz Starkstromanlagenbau Dresden Issue No. 7/79.
- Author collective Dr. Hans Radandt, Mr. Fischer (History Commission): History of VEB "Otto Buchwitz" Starkstrom-Anlagenbau Dresden. Dresden 1986, Issue 2A: VEB Starkstrom-Anlagenbau Dresden (1945–1962).
- FC Delius: in Our Siemens World Festschrift for the 125th anniversary of Siemens; Quarthefte Verlag Klaus Wagenbach Berlin (W) 1972 pp. 9, 10, 17 and 24.
Web links
- Fotothek SLUB Dresden, picture from 1946
- Command 142 expropriation
- Refurbishment of an office building right in the center of Dresden - right next to the main train station
- New offices and apartments planned on Wiener Platz
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the VEB "Otto Buchwitz" Starkstrom-Anlagenbau Dresden. Dresden 1983, issue 1
- ^ History of the VEB "Otto-Buchwitz" Starkstrom-Anlagenbau Dresden. Dresden 1986, issue 2A
- ↑ Kay Haufe: Start of construction on the former Siemenshaus. In: Saxon newspaper . August 1, 2020, p. 23
- ^ Archival signature. Refurbishment of an office building right in the center of Dresden, accessed on August 9, 2020 .