Soli-Deo-Gloria-Haus
The Soli-Deo-Gloria-Haus was a baroque residential building at Landhausstrasse 15 in Dresden . It was probably built in the last third of the 18th century using parts of a previous building and destroyed in 1945.
history
The building was built after the building that was previously on this site was destroyed in the Seven Years' War after 1767. According to Stefan Hertzig, there are indications that during this reconstruction the lower floors of a four- story rococo house built in the mid-1750s were preserved. The remains of this house were acquired on May 7, 1767 by Christiana Eleonora Jünger. After she died, her widower, lawyer Johann Daniel Jünger, inherited the house on July 18, 1777, who restored it in 1786 and added a fifth floor. According to Hertzig, the construction time is probably between these dates. Another not unlikely assumption, according to Hertzig, is that although the floor was added after 1760, the actual building was built in its later form in the 1750s and was only rebuilt in the same form after it was destroyed.
description
The building was five-axis. Four upper floors rose above a rustified ground floor. The three central axes were lavishly decorated with rococo decor. The inscriptions "Soli", "Deo" and "Gloria" adorned the mirrors of the respective cartouches as the motto of the house. Stefan Hertzig sees stylistic similarities to the “Knöffel-Cäsarschen Haus” and the “Erdmannsdorfschen Haus” , for which Johann Christoph Knöffel as a design architect is attested.
literature
- Stefan Hertzig: The late Baroque town house in Dresden 1738–1790 . Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , pp. 108-110 .