Saxon state house
The Sächsisches Ständehaus is a building in Dresden's old town that helps shape the city's silhouette . The Ständehaus is the former state parliament building and today's seat of the Dresden Higher Regional Court and the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony .
location
The Ständehaus is located between Brühlscher Terrasse , Brühlscher Gasse, Augustusstrasse and Schloßplatz . The main entrance is towards the Schlossplatz. The Ständehaus stands behind the western end of the Brühl Terrace, with the secondary building adjoining it in the east .
History, structure and design
Original construction
The Brühlsche Palais , the Fürstenbergsche Haus and the Charonsche Haus were demolished for the construction of the Ständehaus . From 1901 to 1907 Paul Wallot built the Ständehaus as the seat of the Saxon State Parliament , whose previous meeting place was in the Landhaus .
The building is a strictly structured, three-storey structure clad with sandstone. The floor plan is trapezoidal. The gilded figure of Saxonia by Johannes Schilling stands on the laterally offset tower .
Wilhelm Kreis designed the meeting room of the Ständehaus. Two sandstone figures ( Meleager and Atalante ) by Lorenzo Mattielli (1746), which stood at the entrance portal, and other sculptural jewelry by Johann Gottfried Knöffler were transferred to the Ständehaus from the demolished Palais Brühl . Otto Gussmann painted the interior of the conversation room. Selmar Werner created the entrance figures. Karl Groß , Hans Hartmann-MacLean , August Hudler and Richard Riemerschmid contributed to the three-dimensional and pictorial design .
On October 14, 1907, the first session of the Saxon State Parliament took place in the Ständehaus. The last meeting was on February 21, 1933 after less than 26 years. Subsequently, Gauleiter Martin Mutschmann resided here as the Reich Governor of Saxony. During the air raids on Dresden in February 1945, the Ständehaus was badly damaged.
Reconstruction after 1945
After the makeshift reconstruction in the 1950s, the Deutsche Fotothek , the Museum für Tierkunde Dresden , the Museum für Mineralogie und Geologie Dresden and today's State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony were housed in the Ständehaus. The Museum of Animal Science moved into the Ständehaus in 1957 and the Museum of Mineralogy and Geology in 1959.
In 1999, both museums moved into the newly created depot in Klotzsche . The holdings of the Deutsche Fotothek belong to the SLUB Dresden and are housed in its central library at Zelleschen Weg 18 .
Remodeling after 1990
The building was rebuilt from 1996 to 2001. The so-called courtroom cube with seven courtrooms was built on the site of the large plenary hall. It was built as a “house within a house” on its own foundation. In place of the small state parliament hall, the large hall on the second floor was created as a party room. It is dominated by strong red wall panels, which are adorned with silver-colored stainless steel figures by the artists Angela Hampel and Gudrun Trendafilov. There is also art in the building opposite in the meeting room of the state parliament, the same artists have designed a circumferential figure frieze with stencil painting. Marion Hempel designed the colored glass window “Law and Law” in the foyer.
literature
- anonymous: Ständehausbau or Schloßplatz decoration? A signpost from the labyrinth of the terrace question , Dresden 1898 ( digitized version )
- Gerhard Glaser : The restoration of the estate as a monument preservation task , in: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony (Hg.): Monument preservation in Saxony. Announcements from the State Office for Monument Preservation 2001 , Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2001, pp. 25–39
- Folke Stimmel: Stadtlexikon Dresden AZ , Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, ISBN 3-364-00300-9
- Marius Winzeler: The Ständehaus in Dresden by Paul Wallot. The building history of a German parliament building , in: State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Saxony (ed.): Preservation of monuments in Saxony. Announcements from the State Office for Monument Preservation 2001 , Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2001, pp. 5–24
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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 11 ″ N , 13 ° 44 ′ 21 ″ E