Taschenberg (Dresden)

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The Dresden Residenzschloss is a successor to the castle complexes on the Taschenberg

The Taschenberg is a former elevation, "a spur-like low terrace" (Oelsner), in the inner old town of the Saxon state capital Dresden , historically delimited in the early Middle Ages by the Kaitzbach confluence with the Elbe in the east (then Elbgasse, about Schloßstraße / Georgentor ), the Taschenbergtümpel in the south, the Weißeritz delta in the west and the Elbe floodplain in the north with a height of approx. 111 meters above sea ​​level . The mountain itself can hardly be recognized as an elevation anymore due to multiple urban development measures that have been carried out especially since the 17th century.

A street in the inner old town that directly traces the Taschenbergtümpel to the south of this elevation, which formed a border to another hill in the southeast and which was drained in the 13th century, bears the name Taschenberg .

location

The Taschenberg is located directly below the Dresden Castle. After the so-called "Taschenberg Pool" was drained in the course of today's Taschenberg street in the 13th century and the new buildings on the grounds of today's Taschenbergpalais that began in the 17th century, the name finally extended, beginning in the 14th century there.

Origin of name

Dresden 1634, lower right the area of ​​the Taschenberg

Where the name Taschenberg comes from has not been conclusively explained historically. A theory that has been handed down since the 17th century at the latest relates the name to a "land elevation with one-sided waste", which was popularly referred to as a "pocket". Another explanation is that the original mountain was so small that you could literally “put it in your pocket”.

history

For the beginning of the 11th century, flood events on the Elbe are recorded, which caused the residents of the first settlements in what is now Dresden's urban area to not only build on the right bank of the river as before, but also to expand their settlement area to the left bank of the Elbe. On this side of the Elbe, smaller hills, such as the Taschenberg, provided better protection from the recurring floods. While market settlements emerged in the area of ​​Töpfer- and Frauengasse, the Taschenberg was occupied from around 1140 by castle-like buildings, from around 1170/1180 also by a castle, from which today's Dresden Castle emerged over various intermediate stages .

A margravial castle on the Taschenberg has been handed down to us in the 13th century. When Heinrich the Illustrious , Margrave of Meißen, issued the deed of foundation for the Seusslitz monastery in 1268 , he did so in the "Castle on the Taschenberge". The Franciscan monastery in Dresden , which was also built at the end of the 12th century and its monastery garden, was located south of this palace and was not located on the area of ​​the Taschenberg, but was later added to it, as the name Taschenberg generally extended much further south from the end of the 14th century than this original survey.

At the beginning of the 15th century the sex is Counts of Dohna of Margrave Frederick the Belligerent invested with a plot on the Taschenberg, 1459 by Elector Friedrich II. "A free yard, called the Taschenberg" on Hans von Arras (1446-1456 and 1462–1465 Vogt of Dresden).

In the 1660s the first Dresden opera house was built directly on Taschenberg, which was named Klengelsches Opernhaus or Opernhaus am Taschenberg .

From around 1705, August the Strong had a palace built on the Taschenberg (whereby the southern area, i.e. not the early medieval Taschenberg in its narrower sense) , which was named Coselpalais or Coselsches Palais, for his mistress Constantia von Cosel . The first architects were Johann Friedrich Karcher and Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann . Due to the extensive expansion of the city, such as the expansion of the castle and the construction of the Zwinger, large areas of land were heaped up, and the Taschenberg lost its importance as an elevation. The palace was expanded and rebuilt several times, and except for a few enclosing walls was destroyed by the air raids on Dresden in 1945. Reconstruction only began after 1990. It has housed the Hotel Taschenbergpalais Kempinski since 1995.

Web links

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

literature

  • Friedrich Kracke: The Royal Dresden. Memories of the fathers of Saxony and their royal seat. Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard 1972, ISBN 3-7646-1569-9 .
  • Paul Schumann: Dresden. Unikum Verlag, Barsinghausen 2012, ISBN 978-3-84572-138-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norbert Oelsner: The Dresden Castle in the Middle Ages . In: Ed. Karlheinz Blaschke with the participation of Uwe John: History of the City of Dresden, Vol. 1: From the beginnings to the end of the Thirty Years War. Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1906-0 , p. 121, map p. 123.
  2. ↑ a b Taschenbergpalais. Dresden & Saxony - Regional Studies & Travel Guide, accessed on July 5, 2018 .
  3. ^ Michael Ulrich Brysch: August Hauptmann (1607–1674) . Centaurus Verlag & Media, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86226-108-6 , p. 20th f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ Dresden and the surrounding area . Arnoldische Buch- und Kunsthandlung, Dresden 1804, p. 34 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Anton Weck : The Chur-Princely Saxon widely-called Residentz- and Haupt-Vestung Dresden description and presentation . Johann Hoffmann, Nuremberg 1680, p. 13 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ^ A b Norbert Oelsner: The Dresden Castle in the Middle Ages . In: Ed. Karlheinz Blaschke with the participation of Uwe John: History of the City of Dresden, Vol. 1: From the beginnings to the end of the Thirty Years War. Theiss, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1906-0 , pp. 121-149.
  7. ^ Wilhelm Adolf Lindau : New painting from Dresden . Arnoldische Buch- und Kunsthandlung, Dresden 1820, p. 68 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ^ Martin B. Lindau: History of the capital and residence city of Dresden from the earliest to the present time . tape 1 . Verlagbuchhandlung Rudolf Kuntze, Dresden 1859, p. 117 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  9. ^ A b Friedrich Kracke: The Royal Dresden. P. 161 ff.
  10. ^ Dresden and the Elbe area . Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-8460-2722-6 , p. 19 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - reprinted 1905).

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 7.4 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 6.3"  E