Villa Leipziger Strasse 27

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View from the southwest after the renovation
View from the east after the renovation
View from the east before the renovation

The under monument protection standing Villa Leipziger Strasse 27 is also available as former Dampfschiffs- and machine Bauanstalt known. It is located in the Dresden district of Leipziger Vorstadt (statistical district Pieschen-Süd ) and was built in 1865.

history

Before 1945

At the end of the 19th century there were various industrial settlements in the Leipzig suburb, which had been rural until then. For example the Neustädter Holzhof, the steam sawmill of Carl Ernst Grumbt and the Schlick shipyard founded in 1861 . A representative villa was built on Leipziger Strasse as an administrative building, which was completed in 1865. There were also living rooms with different furnishings. An address book from 1895 names a general manager, a shipbuilder's assistant, a foreman and a plumber as residents. In 1910 nine men can be found at Leipziger Strasse 27. In 1913, Karl Melkus, father of the racing driver and later tenant Heinz Melkus , was among the residents for the first time . His occupation is given as brewery director.

Machine parts were initially manufactured in the factory. The company soon specialized in shipbuilding and was taken over by the Saxon Steamship and Mechanical Engineering Company in 1872 . In 1905 it was merged with the Übigau shipyard .

Over the years, various industrial companies have settled on the property. In 1920, the companies Arthur Haendler GmbH, Oscar Renner GmbH, Augustinerbräu Niederlage GmbH, Hochspannungsapparatebau GmbH and the car dealership Louis Glück were located at Leipziger Straße 27. In 1944 the Wirsing metal goods factory, the Krüger glass trading company and a branch of the Augustinerbräu beer wholesaler were registered.

1945 to 2000

In 1955, the Dresden racing driver Heinz Melkus leased the house and the surrounding area and founded a driving school. In the same year he had passed the driving instructor test and was the youngest driving instructor in the GDR. Motorcycles, cars and trucks from the pre-war period were available to him as vehicles. With a motorcycle NSU 500 SS and a tennis court roller he leveled the driving school yard. The business license was issued in 1958, which was very unusual as there was basically no business license for private individuals at the time. The driving school was transferred in 1960 in the legal form of a limited partnership with the state as a limited partner.

A car workshop had been in operation in the villa since around 1956, which initially served the maintenance of the four driving school cars. At the same time, Melkus designed and built racing and sports cars such as the Melkus RS 1000 there . These vehicles were exhibited in a pavilion on the site.

In 1980 the driving school had 33 employees. Since the competition among the driving schools became bigger and bigger after the reunification , Melkus got in touch with BMW in December 1989 . In 1989 the fleet had ten motorbikes, forty cars and one truck. The site consisted of the villa with the “engine cellar”, a workshop building of around 60 by 10 meters and the Fahrschul-Fahrhof (300 by 10 meters) including an old gas station. Only a third of the villa was used by Melkus. The remaining rooms were occupied by an already closed canning factory.

In May 1990 Heinz Melkus and his son Peter opened the first BMW dealer and service company in the GDR in the villa (before monetary union ). The company cars obtained from the BMW factory for test drives were sold on the first day.

Since fewer and fewer students attended the driving school, Melkus concentrated entirely on the car dealership business from 1992 onwards. The lease for the property expired in 1994 and the family was unable to finance an offered purchase price. The dealership moved to Dresden-Bühlau .

Villa Leipziger Strasse 27, view from the west

From 2000

After moving out, there were still various tenants. The building then stood empty for many years. In 2016, the developer USD started a renovation for a planned amount of 2.8 million euros. Striking architectural elements were to be retained, but the interior was to be modernized. Ten apartments were built with areas between 39 and 126 square meters.

description

Outside

The building is two-story, divided by nine to three symmetrical window axes and has a hipped roof . The roof is extended and provided with two dormers on the east, one dormer on the south and five dormer windows on the west. There is a single-storey extension on the northern side. The house has an entrance from the south and one from the west.

Room on the 1st floor, west side

Inside

A hallway runs through the entire length of the house on all floors. The stairwell is also in the middle on the eastern side. Between the short east-west corridor and the long north-south corridor there is an inner door on each floor.

Due to the long vacancy, the condition of the house was very poor at the beginning of 2016. Moisture has penetrated in numerous places and some false ceilings have collapsed. The original wall painting can only be seen in a few places, especially in the stairwell. Most of the rooms, which are representatively furnished with parquet and stucco ceilings, have been completely lost.

gallery

  • Expanded roof, east side

  • Passage to the 1st floor

  • Remnants of the old wall painting

  • Corridor on the 1st floor

  • Cultivation

Web links

Commons : Villa Leipziger Straße 27, Dresden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Hilbert: Bauauftakt at HafenCity . In: Saxon newspaper . December 9, 2015 ( saechsische.de [accessed April 13, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Book printer of Arthur Schönfeld (Ed.): Address book . Housing and business handbook of the royal residence and capital Dresden. No. 41 . Arthur Schönfeld's printing press, Dresden 1895, p. 1163 , col. 3 ( online [accessed February 22, 2016]).
  3. ↑ Book printing by Arthur Schönfeld (Ed.): Address book for Dresden and its suburbs . Arthur Schönfeld's printing press, Dresden 1910, p. 369 , col. 2 ( online [accessed February 22, 2016]).
  4. ↑ Book printing by Arthur Schönfeld (Ed.): Address book for Dresden and its suburbs . Arthur Schönfeld's printing press, Dresden 1913, p. 384 , col. 3 ( online [accessed February 22, 2016]).
  5. ↑ Book printing of the Gützschen Foundation (ed.): Address book for Dresden and suburbs . Book printing of the Gützschen Foundation, Dresden 1920, p. 341 , col. 3 ( online [accessed February 22, 2016]).
  6. ^ Leipziger Strasse. www.dresdner-stadtteile.de, accessed on February 22, 2016 .
  7. ↑ a b c d e Wolfgang Melnek, Mike Jordan: Racing legend Heinz Melkus . Schneider Text, 2008.
  8. ↑ Ralf Hübner: What is actually doing? - Heinz Melkus . In: New Time . May 8, 1993 ( online after registration [accessed February 22, 2016]).
  9. ↑ Company history: 1951 until today. Autohaus Melkus GmbH Dresden, accessed on February 22, 2016 .
  10. ^ First BMW dealer and service company in Dresden . In: Berliner Zeitung . April 10, 1990 ( online after registration [accessed February 22, 2016]).
  11. ↑ White-blue quality . In: New Time . May 4, 1990 ( online after registration [accessed February 22, 2016]).
  12. ↑ Are racing drivers tired of life, Mr. Melkus? In: New Time . May 19, 1994 ( online after registration [accessed February 22, 2016]).
  13. ↑ Ronja Münch: Old building charm in the Melkus Villa . In: Saxon newspaper . November 15, 2016 ( saechsische.de [accessed April 13, 2020]).
  14. ^ NEW - Melkus Villa - Leipziger Straße 27. viarealis.de, accessed on February 22, 2016 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 4.2 "  N , 13 ° 43 ′ 53.2"  E