St. Constantia (Dresden)

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The Chapel of St. Constantia , called the Silver Chapel , was built in the Taschenbergpalais in Dresden from 1756 to 1763 for the Bavarian-born Elector Princess Maria Antonia of Bavaria . Participating artists were Cuvilliés and Schwarze (architects), Deibel and Hackl (sculptors) and JD Pöppelmann (painter). The chapel was destroyed in the air raids on Dresden during World War II. When the Taschenbergpalais was rebuilt, the rooms of the chapel were "restored in a different form". The room known as the house chapel is now used for meetings and events.

history

Silver chapel

The sacred building got its name from the typical Rococo color scheme in light green and silver, which showed a “Rococo decoration at its peak”. The chapel was a five-axis high room that took up two floors of the Taschenbergpalais. The first floor faced the Brüdergasse, while the second floor of the chapel was enriched by a box with six arches on the side . The ceilings were strictly separated from the walls in the Dresden Rococo, because “it is in the essence of the Dresden Rococo that the architectural structure of the wall and ceiling structure is still visible and does not experience a complete dissolution as in southern Germany.” Nevertheless, they connected In curves and transitions, delicate and moving stucco work connects the straight ceilings and walls. A narrow and weakly profiled stucco strip at the transition between the ceiling and the wall connected more than just separating the wall from the ceiling.

literature

  • Fritz Löffler: The old Dresden - history of its buildings . EASeemann, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fritz Löffler, p. 247f
  2. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2005, p. 62.
  3. ↑ Today: house chapel
  4. ↑ a b Fritz Löffler, p. 229 image no. 281 (The chapel in the Taschenbergpalais - Silberkapelle), p. 492 [Chapel in the Taschenbergpalais (St. Constantia)]

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '7.2 "  N , 13 ° 44' 8.9"  E