Friedrichstadt town house
The Stadthaus Friedrichstadt is an administrative and residential building in Dresden that was completed in 1908 . The building on Löbtauer Strasse 2, between Schäferstrasse and Berliner Strasse, is a listed building . The architect was Hans Erlwein .
planning
The building was erected on the site of the municipal sheep farm, which was demolished in 1900, and was intended to house the local district administration for Friedrichstadt . The planning and execution was carried out by the municipal building department under the direction of Hans Erlwein. However, the decision to build the town hall had already been made in 1904, one year before Erlwein took office.
description
The house consists of a ground floor, three full floors and a converted attic. The nine window axes are combined into three groups, with the middle one being set back slightly, so that the two outer windows create the impression of two side risalites , crowned by high gables. The left gable has not been preserved.
The facade design is simple. The street-side ground floor facade was executed with a rustified ashlar , the eight windows and the entrance door located in the fourth axis from the right are closed in a rounded arch, the keystones each adorned with ornaments and naturalistic portrait busts. To the right of the entrance, at the height of the arched doorway, there was a lantern with lettering on a male caryatid in the form of a miniaturized one-story house with a mansard roof, triangular dormers and turrets. The labeling provided information about the function of the building as a police station.
On the first floor, in place of the middle window, there is a cartouche surrounded by figurative ornamentation . The strong three-dimensional relief shows two mothers with children next to the Dresden city arms. The design for this shield comes from Georg Wrba , who also designed the lantern on the ground floor. There are two cornices between the first and second floors that structure the building horizontally. The lower one is a belt cornice, while the upper one is designed as a parapet cornice. Below the windows of the risalite there are parapet mirrors , the three middle ones are provided with blind balustrades . There are roughly square plaster mirrors between the windows on the first and second floors .
From the second floor up, the side elevations are also vertically structured by four pilaster strips . The cornice above which run the nine windows of the top floor fully equipped, is in the middle three window axes of bracket-like corbels venture. There is also a long bat dormer in the gable roof of the house between the two mid-houses .
The small back building was decorated with a corner turret.
use
From its completion until 1945, the building housed the guards of the welfare and security police. These were located on the ground floor and first floor. A branch of the Städtische Sparkasse was also located on the ground floor. There were apartments on the upper floors. The office space for a civil engineering sewer cleaning inspection and a company lantern guard was housed in the rear building.
During the air raids on Dresden in February 1945 the house was damaged, the left gable was destroyed and later not restored. After the war, the premises of the Sparkasse branch were used by a meat sales point for consumption . There were still apartments on the upper floors, as well as the offices of the municipal funeral home and a doctor's practice.
The rear building was demolished in 1985 because of the new construction on Schäferstrasse. The main building had to be closed a little later for reasons of building control and has been empty since then. The last users of the building were the municipal housing administration and the Urania district board .
The Friedrichstadt town house was sold to private investors in the mid-1990s. Since then only a few security measures have been carried out.
See also
literature
- Elke Nadler, Dirk Schumann: Friedrichstadt town hall. In: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): Dresden town halls. A documentation. designXpress, Dresden 2010, pp. 67–70. Without ISBN.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Elke Nadler, Dirk Schumann (Office for Culture and Monument Protection Dresden): Stadthaus Friedrichstadt . In: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): Dresden town halls. A documentation . designXpress, Dresden 2010, p. 67-70 .
- ^ Volker Helas: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, monuments in Saxony, city of Dresden Friedrichstadt . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, ISBN 3-364-00280-0 , p. 153 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '16 " N , 13 ° 43' 9.8" E