Karstadt department store (Dresden)

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Karstadt department store, front side
Back of the Karstadt department store

The Karstadt department store is a building on the corner of Prager Strasse and Waisenhausstrasse in Dresden .

description

The department store was built from 1993 to 1995 by the construction company Wiemer & Trachte AG according to plans by the architects Rhode, Kellermann, Wawrosky & Partner, on the spot where the Residenz department store was located from 1909 to 1945 . The building was originally intended to house a branch of the Hertie department store chain , but this was changed after it was taken over by Karstadt . The building restores the original course of the old Prager Strasse and forms the perimeter block development of Prager Strasse and the Altstadtring. The building rests on an arcade-like base zone consisting of wide columns. The three upper floors rise above it and have a curtain wall that is alternately adorned with glazed and sandstone-clad surfaces. It is a building with a "tendency towards monumentality in the combination of glass surfaces and cladding with suspended sandstone slabs". The back of the building is terraced. The terraces are connected by stairs and are planted with trees. Behind the building there are spacious, partly unpaved parking areas.

The center gallery was built across from the department store . Prager Strasse is again the narrowest between the two houses.

While the department store still employed 700 people in 2015, this number fell to 400 by 2020.

reception

“Towards Prager Straße, the large building uses a modern design language, but traditionally takes on the tripartite nature of historical department stores. Objectivity determines the design and ensures that it fits into the structural environment. The back front looks much more opulent. It slopes down to the level of the first floor in the leafy walk-in terraces. The inner courtyard is intended as a reminiscence of the Brühlsche Terrasse on the banks of the Dresden Elbe. In the center of the shopping area there is an atrium through which the escalators run. In this way, the 30,000 square meters of sales area become an easily accessible experience area. "

- Ingeborg flag

literature

  • Ingeborg flag : Dresden, city guide of contemporary architecture . The example, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-935243-48-0 .
  • Jürgen Paul: Dresden - the city and its architecture . In: Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra and Martin Wörner (eds.): Architekturführer Dresden . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 .
  • Gilbert Lupfer, Bernhard Sterra and Martin Wörner (eds.): Architecture guide Dresden . Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-496-01179-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lupfer et al., No. 7 (Karstadt department store)
  2. ^ Paul XXVI
  3. ↑ Flag, p. 2 (Karstadt department store)

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 48.1 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 14.2 ″  E