Volkshaus (Riesa)

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The Volkshaus in Riesa is a listed building in the style of New Building .

location

The Volkshaus is located between the train station and the city center at the intersection of Berliner Straße / Kasernenstraße - Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße, one of the largest crossings in the city in terms of area.

history

The Volkshaus was built in 1929/1930 for trade unions and the SPD in the then modern Bauhaus style on behalf of GEWOG-Dresden. The society was close to the SPD and wanted to create affordable housing for the working people. The architect was the Austrian Hans Waloschek , who had previously built the Dresden- Trachau estate . The Volkshaus Riesa is considered his masterpiece . Initially, the building housed inexpensive but high-quality apartments, as well as offices, event rooms and a restaurant and café. In 1933 it was expropriated by the National Socialists ; they imprisoned political opponents there. From 1945 the Red Army moved in and used it as a barracks for decades . From 1990 the building fell into disrepair. The Riesa businessman Lutz Steinchen acquired the building from the city and in 2008 began to renovate the associated residential row on the east side; in 2012 the actual Volkshaus followed. In the Bauhaus year 2019, the Volkshaus Riesa was not included on the list of places. (As of end of 2018)

Structure and use

The building has, among other things, a 200 square meter, light-flooded hall.

Today (as of the end of 2018) the Volkshaus is used for rental apartments, by a dentist, for a dental laboratory, by physiotherapy and by the BSW ( Bildungswerk der Sächsischen Wirtschaft ) training provider , which is both a specialist in kitchen, housekeeping, metal, storage and Sales trains as well as prepares Polish workers for integration into the labor market in the district of Meißen .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Christoph Scharf: Volkshaus almost finished. In: Saxon newspaper . December 11, 2018, accessed August 20, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Doerthe Gromes: Wohnglück the Volkshaus. In: Saxon newspaper. July 13, 2017, accessed August 20, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 20.5 ″  N , 13 ° 17 ′ 32.6 ″  E