Sternplatz (Dresden)
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 Sternplatz, view from the AOK building |
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| place | Dresden |
| District | Lake suburb |
| Created | 18th century |
| Newly designed | 1873 |
| Hist. Names | Hans-Beimler-Platz |
| Buildings | AOK administration building, Sternplatz 15 |
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| User groups | Motor traffic , trams until 1945, pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic |
The Sternplatz is located in downtown Dresden .
location
The Sternplatz is located in Seevorstadt , directly on the suburb of Wilsdruffer Vorstadt . The following streets flank the square or start at Sternplatz: Güterbahnhofstraße, Josephinenstraße, Maternistraße, Annenstraße and Falkenstraße.
history
Until 1945
The Sternplatz is located on a historical square of the former village and later district of Poppitz . The place was first mentioned in 1315 and incorporated into the city of Dresden around 1550. The building was acquired by the municipality around 1861 and demolished by 1863. The Sternplatz was built on the site of the former Gasthof Zum Stern . In the period that followed, four-storey residential buildings with magnificent facades were built around Sternplatz. As a result of the expansion of the city, tram lines 10 and 15 ran until 1945. There was a stop in both directions at Sternplatz. While the line 15 coming from the city center via the Freiberger Platz drove the Annenstraße to the Sternplatz, and then the Falkenbrücke , via the tracks of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, reached the Chemnitzer Straße. The lines on Ammonstraße crossed the so-called 26er Ring with tram lines 4 and 26. Line 10 already turned off at Ammonstraße to the main station. On Josephinenstrasse there was a primary school and the Josephinenstift for poor and destitute citizens of the city. In the middle of the square was a playground. The most striking building is the AOK administration building built around 1913 . During the multiple bombings of Dresden in the last days of World War II , Sternplatz and the surrounding buildings were totally destroyed. The AOK administration building and the Annenkirche received slight to medium damage, all other residential and commercial buildings were completely destroyed. The area around Sternplatz had been bombed into a landscape of rubble.
Until 1990
In 1946 it was planned to clear the area around Sternplatz, but this did not begin until 1952. For this purpose, a loading point and a depot for the rubble railway were set up on Sternplatz. The main route ran over Große Plauensche Straße , Hohe Brücke and along Kaitzer Straße to the clay pit on Nöthnitzer Straße and was 3.7 km long. Around 210,000 cubic meters of rubble were removed in two shifts. In December 1952, the tracks of the rubble railway line were dismantled and relocated. Between 1963 and 1965, the cabaret building for the Hercules Club was built according to plans by the architects Herbert Schneider and Kurt Röthig . The roads and supply lines were repaired by 1965. The tram stop was dismantled, there were no more trams . The actual reconstruction took place in the period from 1962 to 1966. Type buildings Q3A residential houses were built in large block construction. Another striking building is Sternplatz 15, an eight-storey old building made of brick . On the ground floor there is the Sertürner pharmacy, in addition to various medical practices, and Hans-Beimler pharmacy during the GDR era. Around 1965, shops were built on the east side of the square. At the back was the popular restaurant Arnis Rennstall Sternplatz 8, in GDR times a residential area restaurant and club. The undeveloped center of the square is also a park with a sandstone statue standing by the Dresden sculptor Christian Schulze . The AOK administration building is located on the west side of the square.
After 1990
After the fall of the Wall , Sternplatz changed little for a long time. The old new buildings on Josephinenstrasse were renovated, as was the eight-story Sternplatz 15. The shopping street was converted into a grocery store. The AOK administration building was expanded and modernized. The cabaret Die Herkuleskeule has moved to a new venue in the Kulturpalast . There is still no connection to local public transport , nor are there any plans.
From 2017, plans were made to redesign the square. It was also planned to demolish the row of shops and the Hercules Club building in favor of multi-storey modern residential buildings. The renovation of the park was planned by the flower landscape architects and began in 2019 and was completed in early May 2020. The 3000 square meter area was given seating, a drinking fountain, table tennis table, table football, a slackline and a barbecue area. Since the south-eastern part of Sternplatz was used as the second cemetery of the Annenkirche from 1712 to 1867, bones were found during the construction work. These were buried on site in November 2019. The cost of the renovation came to 520,000 euros and was borne by the urban redevelopment upgrade program - western inner city ring. The AOK Plus took over the cost of a drinking fountain .
literature
- Michael Lenk and Ralf Hauptvogel: The Dresden rubble railways. Special issue B August 1999 from Verein e. V. Historical light railway Dresden.
- Walter May, Werner Pampel, Hans Konrad: Architecture Guide GDR - Dresden District. VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979, p. 48.
- Matthias Lerm: Farewell to old Dresden: Loss of historical building fabric after 1945. Hinstorff-Verlag, Rostock 2000, ISBN 3-356-00876-5 , p. 75.
- Annette Dubbers: From the history of a Dresden district: The Wilsdruffer suburb. Ed .: Annette Dubbers; Environmental Center Dresden e. V., 2010, ISBN 978-3-937199-40-5 .
Web links
- Sternplatz in the Stadtwiki Dresden
Individual evidence
- ↑ From the history of a Dresden district: The Wilsdruffer Vorstadt
- ^ Architecture Guide GDR - Dresden District 1979
- ↑ Cheaper living at Sternplatz
- ↑ Nora Domschke: The controversial Dresden Park is ready . In: Saxon newspaper . May 3, 2020 ( paid online [accessed May 8, 2020]).
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 47.9 " N , 13 ° 43 ′ 34" E