Viktoriahaus (Dresden)

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On the occasion of the Sedan Day in 1895, the Viktoriahaus was festively decorated.

The Viktoriahaus , also known as the Victoriahaus at the time , in Dresden was a representative residential and commercial building that was built in the neo-renaissance style between 1891 and 1892 by order of the royal Saxon court jeweler Heinrich Mau and destroyed in the Second World War.

The building stood on the Ring, on the border between Innerer Altstadt and Seevorstadt , at the intersection of Seestrasse and Waisenhausstrasse and Prager Strasse . The house was named after the Victoria Hotel, which was previously located on this property and was built between 1850 and 1851 .

For the construction of the Viktoriahaus, an architectural competition was held in 1890 , for which 51 designs were submitted. The design by architects Friedrich Reuter and Theodor Fischer, which was awarded first prize of 3,000 marks , was stylistically based on the buildings of the Dresden Baroque - and thus not to the taste of the client. Without considering any of the other competition designs, Mau commissioned the architects William Lossow and Hermann Viehweger with a design that was based on the Renaissance architecture of the Braunschweig Gewandhaus and was therefore stylistically closer to the royal palace .

The facades of the five-storey building consisted of old Warthauer sandstone , were richly decorated and had several gables and bay windows. There was a statue of Mercury on the main front ; the gable facing Prager Strasse was crowned by a four-meter-high Victoria statue by the sculptor Hugo Spieler .

During the air raids in February 1945 , the Viktoriahaus was hit and burned out. As a result, the ruin was torn down.

literature

  • Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 25, No. 4 (from January 14, 1891), p. 24. (Note on the competition result)
  • Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 25, No. 11 (from February 7, 1891), p. 61 f. (Explanations of the winning design by Reuter and Fischer)
  • Volker Helas : Architecture in Dresden 1800–1900. 3. Edition. Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1991, ISBN 3-364-00261-4 , p. 95, p. 190 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ P. Sch .: Art on the street . In: The Gazebo . Volume 41, 1895, pp. 708 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 49.5 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 13.9 ″  E