Trumpeter Castle (Dresden)
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The Trompeterschlösschen was a building on Dippoldiswalder Platz in Dresden .
history
It is not known when the building was erected. In 1635 it became the property of a field trumpeter's widow. This used it as an inn. The Trompeterschlösschen was supposedly named after the son of this woman, who was an electoral field and court trumpeter. However, there is also a legend about the Trompeterschlösschen, which was once shown in one of the guest rooms in the form of a painting: According to this legend, the landlord could not rent part of the property to guests because they were deprived of sleep by a ghost . A trumpeter declared that he wanted to take on the nocturnal ghosts, and then actually found himself facing a row of skeletons that he had to play for a long time to dance. But with that he blew her to eternal rest, and from then on the house was free from ghostly apparitions.
In 1759 the then trumpet castle was destroyed in the course of the Seven Years' War ; It was rebuilt in 1764. At that time the figure of a trumpeter was placed on one corner of the building; also the following inscription:
Trumpeter
locks I am called, I too felt the rage of the war.
Unexpectedly a killing fire threw me down, but
I am now standing again by God's grace.
The reconstruction under Christoph Siegmund Geuthner cost 10,000 thalers.
In a travel guide from the middle of the 19th century, the Trompeterschlösschen was counted among the second-rate inns in Dresden's old town and described as "good and cheap".
In the first third of the 20th century, the building was decorated with neo-baroque putti by Paul Polte . Two of these sandstone figures survived the Second World War and were restored in 2009 and placed near Dippoldiswalder Platz. The trumpet castle itself, in which an Otto Ludwig room was located, fell victim to the air raid on February 13, 1945. In its place is the Dresden Center Gallery .
Ernst Heinrich Prince of Saxony described the destruction of the house: “Guests and staff went to the air raid shelter. Then the building received two direct hits, collapsed and buried the two entrances to the basement. Around the 17th, the rubble began to be cleared away because it had been determined that there must be numerous visitors in the cellar. When the entrances were finally uncovered, a terrible picture presented itself. The Wehrmacht members present had shot the guests first and then themselves. "
The aforementioned putti were possibly added to the decoration of the house in the course of a renovation that took place between 1920 and 1934 - the architect Oswin Hempel was responsible for the interior fittings .
The condition of the house before 1782 is documented in a prospect of the Trompeter Schloesgen located by the lake gate . Haeusern, and the large Plauischen gasse by Friedrich Gottlob Schlitterlau . In the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden there is an album print from around 1890, on which the Trumpeter Castle can be seen. There it shows clear differences from the building shown by Schlitterlau.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Das Trompetenschlösschen , on: maerchenbasar.de
- ↑ a b c Hotel Trompeterschlößchen , on: www.verschwundene-bauwerke.de
- ↑ Theobald Grieben : Reliable guide to Dresden, its surroundings and Saxon-Bohemian Switzerland , Berlin ²1857, p. 21 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Otto-Ludwig-Zimmer , on: www.bildindex.de
- ^ Putti in Dresden. Part 2 , on: www.brunnenturmfigur.de
- ↑ Quoted from: Wolfgang Hädecke, Dresden. A story of shine, catastrophe and awakening , Munich (dtv) 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-34549-1 , p. 16 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Prospect, of the trumpeter Schloesgen located by the lake gate, which is located there. Haeusern, and the large Plauischen gasse in the German Digital Library
- ↑ The Gasthof and the Hotel Trompeterschlösschen on Dippoldiswalder Platz, between Trompeterstraße and Reitbahnstraße, since 1635 , at: skd-online-collection.skd.museum
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '48 " N , 13 ° 44' 3.9" E