Strasbourg Square (Dresden)

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Strasbourg square
Dresden city arms
Place in Dresden
Strasbourg square
Transparent manufactory
Basic data
place Dresden
District Altstadt (city district)
Created 1875-1881
Newly designed from 1945
Confluent streets Grunaer Strasse , Güntzstrasse, Stübelallee, Lennéstrasse
Buildings Transparent manufactory
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , public transport , car traffic

The Straßburger Platz in Dresden is an important traffic junction on the southern Elbe side of the city. It is not far from the Great Garden and is in the Altstadt district on the border between the districts of Pirnaische Vorstadt , Johannstadt- Süd and Seevorstadt-Ost / Großer Garten .

Names

The square was named Stübelplatz in 1898 in honor of the mayor (1877–1895) Paul Alfred Stübel, who died in office . In memory of the anti-fascist journalist Julius Fučík , it was renamed Fučík Square in 1951. Since 1991, the square has been named after Dresden's French twin city - Straßburger Platz .

Plant and development

The square was created in 1880 through the breakthrough of the confluent Grunaer Strasse and the widening of the Neue Pirnaische Landstrasse to Stübelallee between the years 1897 and 1905.

The square was primarily characterized by exhibition buildings, such as the exhibition palace opened in 1896 on the southeast corner of the square and the municipal art exhibition building created by Hans Erlwein from 1914 to 1916 . Furthermore, the municipal planetarium by Paul Wolf from 1926 and the Kugelhaus were located in the immediate vicinity of the square on the exhibition grounds . The Kugelhaus, created in 1928, was demolished in 1938.

In 1901, the "Stübelbrunnen" was built on the northeast corner of the square. Alfred Hauschild created the architecture and Hans Hartmann-MacLean created the sculptural design of the fountain. The fountain stood on a triangular foundation and was decorated with rich figurative decorations and a portrait medallion from Stübels.

From 1880 school and boarding school buildings of the Ehrlich Peninsula were built on the north-west corner .

During the air raids on Dresden in February 1945, the buildings on the square were destroyed. The ruins of the school church of the Ehrlichschen Stift was blown up in 1950, although it could have been rebuilt and used as a concert hall for the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music . The new university building was erected by Emil Leibold after the rubble had been cleared in 1950/1951 . In addition to the music school, Gottfried Kintzer established a vocational school for construction on Güntzstrasse in 1952/1953 , which was expanded in 1972/1973. In front of the school there is a larger than life bronze sculpture created by Wilhelm Landgraf in 1961, depicting construction workers and apprentices. To the south of it between Seidnitzer Strasse, Blochmannstrasse, Güntzstrasse and Grunaer Strasse, a joint school campus for three educational institutions is being built. The construction with seminar rooms, lecture halls and cafeteria should be ready in late summer 2017. 1500 apprentices and students from the Dresden University of Applied Sciences , the Academy for Business and Administration and the Academy for Vocational Education and Training will then be trained there. A wrought-iron sundial, which was designed by Hans Konrad in 1975/1976, stood on the green space at the confluence until the school campus was built.

Memorial to Julius Fučík

The remains of the destroyed Stübelbrunnen were removed in 1960. The Julius Fučík Monument still stands in its place today. It was erected on the 20th anniversary of Fučík's death, September 8, 1963.

From 1968 to 1970, 15-storey high-rise residential buildings in large-panel construction were built on the south side of the square as part of the development on Grunaer Strasse, and they were renovated in the mid-1990s. In 1977 and 1978, under the urban planning direction of the architects Heinz Michalk and Jörg Bösche, ten-storey prefabricated blocks of the type IW 67 with 535 apartments were built on the north and east sides of Fučíkplatz .

SP1 shopping center on Straßburger Platz

After the reunification of Germany , there were major shifts in the housing market. The northern part of the ten-storey building was redeveloped from 2002 to 2005 as Strasbourg Castle with "southern, cheerful colors". In order to counter the overhang of the apartment, the southern part of the residential disc facing the square was demolished in 2004. In anticipation of a redesign of the square, a green area was created on the open area, which was used, among other things, from 2004 to 2014 by the Trocadero Sarrasanis dinner variety show . A local supply center was then built there, which opened on May 12, 2016. The “SP1” complex, based on the address Straßburger Platz 1, is a shopping center with a parking garage and two office floors on the south side.

The Fučík Square Exhibition Center was opened at the site of the Exhibition Palace in 1969 ; The associated open space served from 1953 to 1991, among other things, as a venue for the city's large, regular folk festivals. The exhibition center was demolished for the Gläserne Manufaktur , whose foundation stone was laid in 1999.

The larger-than-life group sculpture Young Pioneers, created in 1952 by Karl Loose , stands not far from the confluence with Grunaer Strasse .

traffic

Traffic on Fučík Square (March 5, 1982, looking to the east. The SP1 is now on the site of the now demolished apartment block.)

Tram lines 1, 2, 4, 10, 12 and 13 run from Straßburger Platz .

In addition, there was the “Straßburger Platz” station of the Dresden Park Railway until the Transparent Factory was built .

The so-called 26er Ring leads in a north-south direction across the square. To the north, Güntzstraße leads to Güntzplatz and from there on via Sachsenallee and Sachsenplatz over Albertbrücke to the northern side of the Elbe . Lennéstrasse leads south. Strasbourg Square is connected to Pirnaischer Platz to the west via the east-west main line of the city center, Grunaer Straße . The main road runs eastwards as Stübelallee north along the Great Garden .

literature

  • City Lexicon Dresden A – Z. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
  • Art in public space . Information brochure of the state capital Dresden, December 1996.
  • Walter May , Werner Pampel and Hans Konrad : Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979.

Individual evidence

  1. Article in the Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten Dresden gets a new education campus for 20 million euros from October 28, 2015
  2. Brochure workshop procedure Südliche Pirnaische Vorstadt / Robotron of the city of Dresden ( Memento of December 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), p. 7 (PDF; 2.3 MB).
  3. May et al., No. 91 (residential development on Fučíkplatz)
  4. The newly designed "StrassBURG"
  5. Entry in www.das-neue-dresden.de
  6. State capital Dresden: Framework plan No. 767, Straßburger Platz ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )

Web links

Commons : Straßburger Platz, Dresden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 46 ″  N , 13 ° 45 ′ 18 ″  E