Gatehouses Leipziger Tor

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The Thormeyer'sche Torhaus on Palaisplatz
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The gatehouses Leipziger Tor were two gatehouses on today's Palaisplatz in Dresden . In addition to the Old Town Guard , the Third Belvedere , the Palais Lüttichau , the domed hall of Pillnitz Palace and the rebuilt Swan House by Woldemar Hermann, they were examples of purely classicist buildings in old Dresden. The north-eastern of the two gatehouses built by Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer in 1827/1829 still exists and is characterized as a building in which “the classicistic formal elements are still present, but they are no longer presented with solemn seriousness, but now appear in a verbiedermeier light”.

history

The gatehouses at the Leipziger Tor were part of a fortification to Altendresden built by Wolf Caspar von Klengel and Johann Georg Maximilian von Fürstenhoff . When this was dismantled in 1817, Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer built two classicist gatehouses in 1827 and 1829. Both were damaged in the air raids on Dresden .

As early as June 11, 1951, Hans Nadler wrote a letter to the city planning office in which he described the dilapidation of the south-western gatehouse as "the decay of a valuable Dresden monument". He said that it was possible to secure the top of the wall with little financial means. The imminent demolition is a "regrettable damage to the cityscape of the New Town, in the overall picture of the Japanese Palace". Nadler asked the city planning office to "plan the reconstruction of the Thormeyerschen gatehouse on Karl-Marx-Platz and to initiate safety measures as soon as possible." The city planning office then noted that the extension of Leipziger Strasse or the widening of the Köpckestrasse / Große Meißner traffic train Strasse / Robert-Blum-Strasse had priority and in 1969 had the ruins of the southwestern gatehouse at the Leipziger Tor demolished.

Opening of the disco in the Torhaus in 2015

After being damaged in World War II , the gatehouse was repaired again. Between 1952 and 1994 the north-eastern gatehouse was a registry office of Dresden. Over 70,000 couples said yes here. After that, the building stood empty for a long time and various uses were discussed. In August 2010, the ORNÖ art festival used the building for ten days for art exhibitions at the Dresden Biennale and performances. Since December 2015 there is a disco for up to 200 guests in the Torhaus. The interior design was done by the Dresden artist Frank K. Richter .

description

The 27 meter long and 11.25 meter high Thormeyer'sche Torhaus at the Leipziger Tor is a square building with a tent roof, to which a portico with four Doric columns is placed. An architrave with a triangular gable rests on the portico . The main building is adjoined by a one-story, single-window extension with a column closure. The window there has a straight lintel and a strong sill.

literature

  • Fritz Löffler: The old Dresden - history of its buildings . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1981, ISBN 3-363-00007-3 .
  • Matthias Lerm: Farewell to old Dresden - Loss of historical building fabric after 1945 . Forum Verlag, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-86151-047-2 .
  • Volker Helas: Architecture in Dresden 1800–1900 . Verlag der Kunst Dresden GmbH, Dresden 1991, ISBN 3-364-00261-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Löffler, p. 343.
  2. ^ Lerm, p. 198 [Torhäuser Leipziger Strasse].
  3. ↑ Marcus Herrmann: Torhaus becomes dance temple . In: Saxon newspaper . December 4, 2015 ( online [accessed December 4, 2015]).
  4. ↑ Helas, p. 14f. [The architecture of classicism]; Lerm, p. 198. [Torhäuser Leipziger Strasse]; Löffler, p. 342f. [The Revolutionary Architecture and Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer] and image no. 429 [facade of a gatehouse at the White Gate or Leipzig Gate]

Web links

Commons : Torhäuser Leipziger Tor (Dresden)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 41 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 17.8 ″  E