Dresden town house

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The Dresden City Hall on Theaterstrasse is a building belonging to the Dresden City Administration as an extension of the City Hall. It was built until 1923 in a rare expressionist style mixed with traditional style elements. Despite being hit by bombs in 1944 and 1945, it is one of the preserved buildings of pre-war Dresden modernism . The architect of the house is Ludwig Wirth .

location

The building is located in the Wilsdruffer suburb in the immediate vicinity of Postplatz . The main facade faces north in the direction of Zwingerteich along Hertha-Lindner- and Theaterstrasse. The Queckbrunnen is directly opposite on Hertha-Lindner-Straße . The neo-baroque theater is on the diagonally opposite side of the street . The remaining areas of the parcel towards Schweriner Straße and Postplatz were undeveloped from 1945 to 2016. The “Haus am Schauspielgarten” was built there from summer 2016 to autumn 2018, which is connected in an arch to the town hall.

Building

The main facade of the six-storey house follows the arched course of the street, which was taken up by the architecture. This arch to the outside is opposed by indicated small arches to the inside, which structure the building vertically. There are lattice windows between the rounded spikes that are created in this way. The vertical staggering is not emphasized by colors (e.g. by weathered sandstone) and thus has an effect mainly through the direction of incidence of light and shadow formation.

Ledges structure the facade horizontally. Due to the smaller distances between these in the higher floors and simultaneous further indentation, the building also experiences a vertical arch that becomes steeper upwards.

The main entrance is formed by two gate-like round arches. The roof is traditionally designed as a gable roof and cannot be seen directly in front of the house due to the recessed facade.

The architecture is influenced by Hans Poelzig , who himself submitted a design for the town house. Wirth worked with Hans Erlwein , who was able to integrate massive reinforced concrete structures such as the Erlweinspeicher into the inner city of Dresden by means of staggering and other external features.

As a rare Expressionist building (especially in Dresden) , it was created at a time when there were otherwise many Expressionist artists working in Dresden ( Dresden Secession of Painting, establishment of the Palucca School Dresden for expressive dance ). In addition to the Erlweinspeicher, it is one of the first reinforced concrete skeleton structures in Dresden and, along with the German Hygiene Museum, is one of a number of Dresden buildings that mark the transition from traditional (historicist) architecture to modern styles with their multi-style architecture.

history

The city administration was able to move to the New Town Hall by 1910 and thus temporarily solve space problems. In the following years, however, the incorporation process of Dresden continued (for example through the inclusion of the small town-like and wealthy Blasewitz in 1921 and further parts of the Südhöhe, i.e. Leubnitz-Neuostra , Zschertnitz and other places). As a result, new spatial expansions were necessary, which were to be solved in 1923 by the town hall. By 1925, the population of Dresden rose again by leaps and bounds to 620,000.

After the war, in which the building was hit several times by bombs, it was reconstructed and could be used for municipal facilities in the city center. The town libraries had their headquarters in the town hall between 1923 and 1997 . Up to the present day it is the seat of municipal institutions, such as the municipal district office (until 2018: local office ) of the old town district .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '9.2 "  N , 13 ° 43' 49.1"  E