Ständehaus Görlitz

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Ständehaus
Ständehaus, Dr.-Kahlbaum-Allee 31 Görlitz

Ständehaus, Dr.-Kahlbaum-Allee 31 Görlitz

Data
place Goerlitz
architect Carl Ferdinand Busse
Construction year 1854
Coordinates 51 ° 8 '59.9 "  N , 14 ° 59' 37.2"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 8 '59.9 "  N , 14 ° 59' 37.2"  E

The state house in Görlitz was the meeting place for the state estates of the Prussian Upper Lusatia . The three-storey, fort-like building was inaugurated in 1854 and has served as a retirement and nursing home since 2000.

location

The Ständehaus is located in the city ​​center . To the north and northeast, the building is surrounded by a green area and the neighboring city ​​park . Along the east side, on which the entrance portal is also located, the street Am Stadtpark joins the Dr.-Kahlbaum-Allee when coming from the border crossing point . More than two decades after the construction of the estate, the Reichenberger Bridge was built east of it over the Lusatian Neisse and thus a main traffic axis into the former eastern town of Görlitz.

history

Entrance portal of the Ständehaus

The Upper Lusatian estates, that is, rulers, landed gentry, religious institutions and representatives of the Six Cities , met in the Bautzner Ortenburg until the separation of eastern Upper Lusatia in 1815 as a result of the Congress of Vienna . As a result of the Congress of Vienna, the estates of the Margraviate of Upper Lusatia were split into two parts, the Upper Lusatian estates that remained with Saxony and that of the Prussian Upper Lusatia. The estates of the Prussian margraviate of Upper Lusatia therefore also needed a new meeting place.

On September 19, 1854, the Ständehaus was inaugurated. The building shows strong parallels to the Jäger barracks due to the large granite blocks used and the battlements . During the construction, chunks of rubble from the demolished Görlitz city wall were reused. The architect was Carl Ferdinand Busse . In the middle of the stone parapet of the balcony above the entrance portal is the stone coat of arms of Upper Lusatia. The ballroom was located in the middle, protruding part of the building with the large window openings. It was redesigned in Art Nouveau shortly after 1900 . Between 1999 and 2000 the Ständehaus was renovated and an extension was built. Since the inauguration on August 20, 2000, the building has served as a retirement and nursing home.

After the state estates were dissolved in 1940, the state house served a wide variety of purposes. As early as July 8, 1937, the Görlitz transmitter went into operation as a branch of the Reich broadcaster Breslau with its studios in the Ständehaus. It also served military purposes until the end of the war. In 1941 the National Socialist propaganda exhibition Degenerate Art took place in the Ständehaus . A year earlier, pictures by the Görlitz painter Otto Engelhardt-Kyffhäuser were exhibited under the title The Great Trek .

In contrast to its neighboring building to the south, the building survived the Second World War without serious damage. The neighboring villa was the seat of the district farmers and was completely destroyed during the war. After the end of the war, the estate was, among other things, the seat of the Soviet city command, social security, the German border police , the district leadership of the SED and the military.

literature

  • Preservation of monuments in Görlitz . No. 10 . Oettel, Bad Muskau 2001, ISBN 3-932693-66-3 .
  • Cityscape issue 28 . Journal for Görlitz and the surrounding area. Stadtbild-Verlag, Görlitz 2004.

Web links

Commons : House of the Estates Görlitz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c goerlitz.de: Ständehaus . (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 29, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.goerlitz.de  
  2. ↑ a b Erich Feuerriegel: The Upper Lusatian estates keep some of the city walls . In: Saxon newspaper . April 21, 2007 ( online ).
  3. ↑ a b c d Ernst Heinz Lemper: Görlitz. A historical topography . 2nd Edition. Oettel-Verlag, Görlitz 2009, ISBN 3-932693-63-9 , p. 173 f .
  4. ↑ www.dresden-und-sachsen.de: From the Görlitz town history . Retrieved March 1, 2012 .
  5. ↑ altstadt-goerlitz.de: Willy Schmidt . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 12, 2010 ; Retrieved February 29, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.altstadt-goerlitz.de
  6. ↑ Personen-wiki.slub-dresden.de: Engelhardt-Kyffhäuser, Otto . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 22, 2016 ; Retrieved March 1, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / Personen-wiki.slub-dresden.de
  7. ^ Hans Joachim Übersaer: Görlitz. 1945 1946 . Ed .: News Office of the City of Görlitz. Hoffmann & Reiber, Görlitz 1946, p. 51 .
  8. ↑ 17juni53.de: The popular uprising on the Oder-Neisse border in Görlitz on June 17, 1953 . Retrieved March 1, 2012 .