Wiener Platz (Dresden)
| Wiener Platz ' Bahnhofsvorplatz' |
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 View of the square from the platform; 2019 |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Dresden |
| District | Lake suburb |
| Created | Early 20th century as Wiener Platz |
| Newly designed | 1972, 2005 |
| Hist. Names | Lenin Square (1974–1991) |
| Confluent streets |
Prager Strasse (east), Ammonstrasse (west); Wiener Platz as street sections (north and south) |
| Buildings | Dresden Central Station |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , public transport , underground parking |
| Space design | Green area with peripheral development; There is an underground car park under the western part |
| Technical specifications | |
| Square area | 25,000 m² (green area) + built-up area |
The Viennese court in Dresden (1974-1991 Lenin Square ) is located north of the main station . It forms the transition between the train station, pedestrian zones with shops and local public transport , making it one of the most important transport hubs in the city's tram network .
location
The square is located on the southern edge of the Altstadt district in the Seevorstadt district . Starting at Wiener Platz, an axis can be drawn through Dresden, which extends over Prager Strasse , Seestrasse , Altmarkt , Schloßplatz , over Augustusbrücke , Neustädter Markt and Hauptstrasse to Albertplatz .
Prager Strasse, St. Petersburger Strasse , Ammonstrasse , Wiener Strasse and Fritz-Löffler-Strasse meet at Wiener Platz . To the south of the 26th ring marked by Ammonstrasse and Wiener Strasse is Dresden Central Station .
History and development
Space renewal
After the war destruction in 1945 , the square remained a largely green open space for about 40 years. It was therefore anonymous on city maps until 1974, when the Lenin Monument was erected it was given the name Leninplatz . After the fall of the Wall in 1990, the square, next to Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, was the second largest inner-city construction site in Germany. In contrast to Neumarkt , which is built according to the historical model, Wiener Platz is part of Dresden's modern development. The old proportions of the square are recreated through the buildings directly on the square.
In the south, the square is closed off by the 230 meter long side of the main train station. Across from it, a number of cuboid single houses were built. Two of them were built in connection with the new Kugelhaus . The sphere connects both houses, according to their proportions, three more buildings were built by 2007. The building material glass dominates both at the front of the main station and on the new buildings. From the square you can see the new roof of the main station, covered with a Teflon fabric . Since autumn 2006, the old entrance dome of the station has been clad with glass again.
A road tunnel and an underground car park over several floors are located under Wiener Platz . Therefore, between the main train station and the tram stop, there are stairwells and light shafts that are embedded in fountains.
Lenin monument
On October 6, 1974 , a monument in honor of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was inaugurated in the presence of Hans Modrow , the first secretary of the SED district leadership in Dresden . On this occasion, Wiener Platz was renamed Leninplatz . The 120-ton monument made of red Karelian granite was created in the workshop of the Russian sculptor Grigori Danilowitsch Yastrebenetski . It showed Lenin larger than life with a Red Front fighter and a worker.
After reunification , the square got its old name back in 1991. In 1992 the city gave away the monument to the stonemason Josef Kurz from Gundelfingen an der Donau for a planned sculpture park; which, however, was not realized due to the death of Kurz in 1994. As part of Rudolf Herz's art campaign “Lenin on Tour” , it came back to Dresden for one day in 2004.
"Vienna Hole"
The excavation pit , which had been fallow for about two decades on the largest and most central plot of land “MK5” at the entrance to Prager Strasse, was known in Dresden as the Wiener Loch . After the area was not used for purely commercial purposes for years, the city planned a new building for the State Operetta as an anchor tenant . In October 2007, however, the city administration had to declare the relevant award procedure to have failed because none of the interested parties met the objectives for a low grant requirement for the theater. In July 2008, the city administration decided to build a shopping center on this last large gap in the square, which should be completed in 2010. This HLG Projektmanagement Münster project also failed after the IKB Bank withdrew its financing commitment in spring 2009 . In 2009 the Wilfried Euler group of companies from Berlin planned to purchase the MK 5 property for 4.5 million euros and wanted to build a commercial building on it. In the same year, the Association of Taxpayers entered the Vienna Hole in its black book , as securing the excavation pit cost around 30,000 euros a month.
In April 2012, the building committee of the city council changed the development plan so that apartments can also be built there. In October 2012, the building committee decided that the property should be put out to tender again below the market value of ten million euros.
On June 18, 2013, the municipality sold the property to Hamburg-based Revitalis Real Estate AG for EUR 9.5 million. From 2014 to 2016, a building complex with apartments, shops and space for a supermarket was built under the name “Prager Carrée”.
The marketing of the other, meanwhile developed properties on Wiener Platz and southern Prager Strasse also turned into a financial disaster for the state capital. The Aufbaugesellschaft Prager Straße mbH (AGP) , which was founded specifically for planning and development, was unable to even come close to meeting the forecast based on the excessive land prices of the early 1990s. The lack of the income from property sales, which was hoped for because of the best inner-city location, led to high deficits for the city of Dresden. While the original plan was to refinance the complex underground structures (road tunnel and underground car park) from the 1990s by marketing the areas above and around it , the city ultimately had to cede expected profits from future property sales to Depfa Bank in order to fully develop the ensure the entire area. Overall, the Wiener Platz project cost around 151 million euros between 1996 and 2008, including 87 million euros from Dresden's own funds and 64 million euros from subsidies. Correctly, however, city councilors, including Ingolf Roßberg , had already proven in 1995 based on the submission of the city administration that a loss (subsidy) of this amount could occur. With figures that were already foreseeable and realistic at the time, there was a shortfall at the expense of the city budget (own funds) of 135 million DM (about 69 million euros).
traffic
There are a few stops for the main train station at Wiener Platz. There are six tram lines and one bus line operated by the Dresden public transport company . Strictly speaking, the square is only part of a transfer complex that is made up of several stops around the main train station.
The tram stop on Wiener Platz is largely covered and is one of the most modern in the city. The station platforms can be accessed from this stop without crossing a street in a few steps.
In an east-west direction, motor vehicle traffic passes under Wiener Platz and the urban traffic of Bundesstraße 170 (St. Petersburger Straße) in a tunnel without crossing . Wiener Platz is thus part of a pedestrian zone that begins at the main train station, runs along Prager Strasse , and extends to Neumarkt with the exception of two intersecting streets ( Dr.-Külz-Ring / Waisenhausstrasse along the former fortifications and Wilsdruffer Strasse on the Altmarkt ) .
reception
The Lenin Monument and Wiener Platz are important locations in the film art of the Veritas artist project from Dresden. The filmmaker Werner Kohlert shot in 1990 and 1991 a. a. on Leninplatz on behalf of the city for his documentary Dresdner Interregnum 1991 .
literature
- Claus Kayser: Hotel am Wiener Platz , in: Deutsche Architektur , Issue 4, year 1968, p. 229.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ View of the state with the Lenin monument in 1975: GDR Postcard Museum
- ↑ Kugelhaus opened on Wiener Platz. State capital Dresden, May 30, 2005, archived from the original on February 6, 2013 ; Retrieved July 12, 2013 .
- ↑ Lenin Monument, inauguration with Hans Modrow and B. J. Aristow, Leningrad, Professor G. D. Jastrebenetzki , photographs in the Deutsche Fotothek
- ↑ this article ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. writes '80 tons'
- ↑ Central Station & Wiener Platz. In: Dresden-und-Sachsen.de. Retrieved July 14, 2013 .
- ^ Lenin on Tour
- ↑ The award procedure for the new building of the State Operetta on Wiener Platz failed. State capital Dresden, October 15, 2007, accessed on February 7, 2017 (press release).
- ^ New shopping center on Wiener Platz , in: Sächsische Zeitung, July 10, 2008
- ↑ Investor wants to build hole on Wiener Platz , in Sächsische Zeitung from December 16, 2009 (accessed December 18, 2009)
- ↑ a b Association of Taxpayers: Public Waste 2009 , p. 16f. ( online as PDF; 7.8 MB)
- ↑ Construction committee now enables living in the Wiener Loch , in: Dresdner Latest News , April 19, 2012
- ↑ Wiener Loch: Dresden's city councils want to take the decision from the financial mayor DNN online, October 11, 2012, accessed on October 11, 2012
- ↑ Thomas Baumann-Hartwig: Officially: The "Wiener Loch" in Dresden has changed hands , DNN online, June 19, 2013
- ↑ Christine Ostrowski in Dresdner Blätt'l 1/2002, page 9
- ↑ The film "KUNST" on YouTube
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 '28.8 " N , 13 ° 43' 59" E