Tram station Waltherstrasse

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Walterstrasse depot (2016)
Glass roofs of the hall, in the foreground Tatra T4D 222 998-7 (2016)
Depot outbuilding (2016)

The Waltherstraße tram station , also Waltherstraße depot , is a listed tram depot in Dresden-Friedrichstadt at Waltherstraße 9-11.

architecture

The tram station, designed by city planning officer Paul Wolf and opened on October 5, 1926, is an "undisputed highlight of metropolitan traffic structures in Dresden in the 1920s" and was "one of the largest industrial halls in Dresden of its time." The entrance hall is 110 meters long and 43 meters wide and 15 feet high. Architecturally, the building is an example of a “functional design typical of the time with subtle expressive elements” . The mixture of New Objectivity with elements of Expressionist architecture is decisive for the construction of the tram station. “Slightly late Expressionist specks” are the stair-like glass windows in the driveway, which contrast with the semicircular arches of the hall. The jagged, tent-like glass roofs "clearly have an expressionist character in their graduation" .

Todays use

After the Gorbitz tram station went into operation in 1996, the Waltherstrasse tram station was used almost exclusively for the storage of work and company vehicles and, more rarely, for turning and parking regular trains.

literature

  • Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra, Martin Wörner (eds.): Architecture guide Dresden . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 .

Web links

Commons : Betriebshof Waltherstrasse  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c tram station in Friedrichstadt - traffic architecture for the city of Dresden. In: das-neue-dresden.de. www.das-neue-dresden.de, accessed on April 19, 2016 .
  2. ^ Lupfer, No. 139 (Friedrichstadt tram station, 1927, Paul Wolf)

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 34.2 "  N , 13 ° 42 ′ 45.6"  E