Wasaplatz
| Wasaplatz | |
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 Wasaplatz, seen from the south |
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| Basic data | |
| place | Dresden |
| District | Chasing |
| Created | around 1880 |
| Confluent streets | Wasastrasse, Oskarstrasse, Kreischaer Strasse, Lockwitzer Strasse , Casper-David-Friedrich-Strasse, Bebelstrasse |
| Buildings | Hotel Königshof, Villa Wasa |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic , public transport , car traffic |
The Wasaplatz is a place in the Dresden district of Strehlen and one situated outside the city center transportation hub . The area around the after the Swedish-Polish royal family Vasa designated space is now considered the district center of Dresden-Strehlen.
Location and traffic
The square is located on the north-western edge of the Prohlis district of Dresden in the Strehlen district. The six adjacent streets run from here in the direction of the old town and the neighboring districts in the south-east of Dresden. Around 14,000 vehicles drive on the square every day.
There is a central bus stop at Wasaplatz , which is an important public transport transfer point in Dresden outside the city center. This is where tram lines 9 and 13 and city buses 61, 63, 75 and 85 meet. The Dresden-Strehlen stop on S-Bahn lines 1 and 2 is about 350 meters northeast of Wasaplatz. A tram connection between the S-Bahn stop and Wasaplatz via Oskarstrasse is planned.
history
Wasaplatz got its current urban design around 1880 with the construction of the surrounding houses such as the Hotel Königshof , some villas and a commercial building with the Wasa pharmacy.
The naming of the square and the northwest branching Wasastraße took place after the Swedish-Polish royal house Wasa. In particular Carola von Wasa-Holstein-Gottorp should be honored with the designation. After her marriage to the Saxon King Albert of Saxony , she was the last Queen of Saxony until her death in 1907.
In 2014 the city of Dresden published plans to redesign Wasaplatz for almost one million euros. The key to this is the laying of the tram track from Wasa- to Oskarstraße. The renovation is intended to make the oak planted in 1898 in the middle of Wasaplatz more effective. In addition, the proportion of green space is to increase by 50 square meters and a marketplace is to be created. Up to eleven dealers should be able to regularly offer their goods there. The safety for cyclists is to be increased by new bike paths. The redesign was completed in 2020; A regular weekly market has been held on the square since April of that year.
Development
The most striking building on Wasaplatz is the Hotel Königshof, built as a large restaurant in 1888/89 . The building in neo-renaissance style houses a ballroom, in which theater and variety performances took place in the post-war period. The hotel section on Lockwitzer Strasse was destroyed in the Second World War. During the GDR era until 1992, the Strehlener Hof restaurant was operated in the Königshof. After the building was privatized, it was demolished, with the exception of the front building and the street front facing Kreischaer Straße, but parts of the ballroom equipment were stored. Between 1995 and 1997 it was rebuilt as a hotel with an attached restaurant, expanded to include an office and commercial building. The historic ballroom for up to 240 guests was restored. The hotel is run by the DORMERO Hotel AG chain as DORMERO Hotel Dresden City .
In 1903 the castle-like Villa Wasa was built in Art Nouveau style. The client was the glass manufacturer Gustav Kühnel. The painter Gotthardt Kuehl with his wife Henriette rented the house's first floor. Expropriated after 1945, the villa served as the August Bebel clubhouse from 1963 with a music room, TV room and reading room as well as an HO café. After the fall of the Wall , the Dresden Cultural Office had its seat in the villa from 1991 to 1993. After a renovation between 1993 and 1994, the house is now used as a residential and office building as well as a restaurant in the style of the turn of the century. The eye-catchers of the villa “are a polygonal bay window with a tower roof and the high, curved gable of the main facade”. The ornamentation of the house is shaped by Art Nouveau.
The King Albert Oak stands in a small green area in the middle of Wasaplatz . This tree, which has been under nature protection since 1999, was planted in honor of the 25th anniversary of the throne of King Albert of Saxony on April 24, 1898 and is therefore one of the memorial trees in Dresden . Since 1989 there has been a pyramid by the carpenter Otto Krause with three floors, 18 lamps, twelve wings and 19 figures next to the oak tree during the Christmas season.
In addition to the buildings that still existed before the Second World War, a modern residential and commercial building was built on Lockwitzer Strasse after 1990.
Other listed buildings on Wasaplatz are:
- Apartment building in open development (August-Bebel-Straße 33)
- Wasastraße 15
- Oskarstrasse 2
- Lockwitzer Strasse 2
- Villa with back building and enclosure (August-Bebel-Straße 50)
gallery
Villa Wasa
August-Bebel-Strasse 33
King Albert Oak
Wasastraße 15
August-Bebel-Strasse 50
Weekly market on Wasaplatz
Web links
- Wasaplatz on dresdner-stadtteile.de
- Hotel brochure of the Hotel Königshof with an interior shot of the ballroom (PDF; 917 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Integrated Urban Development Concept Dresden - Report 2009. (PDF; 8.2 MB) on dresden.de , p. 28.
- ↑ Wasaplatz is being redesigned . In: Saxon newspaper . April 21, 2015 ( online [accessed April 21, 2015]).
- ↑ Delay in the tram project on sz-online.de (chargeable) from April 4, 2012
- ↑ Christoph Stephan: Wasaplatz should be more beautiful: City presents plans for redesign . In: Dresdner Latest News . July 4, 2014 ( online [accessed July 8, 2014]).
- ^ Peter Weckbrodt: Complete renovation of Wasaplatz in Dresden necessary. computer-oiger.de, March 10, 2015, accessed on March 11, 2015 .
- ↑ A new weekly market starts on Thursday at Wasaplatz in Dresden . In: Dresdner Latest News . April 2, 2020 ( online [accessed April 3, 2020]).
- ↑ Our event factsheet. (PDF; 1.10 MB) dormero-hotel-dresden.de, August 26, 2013, accessed on September 9, 2013 .
- ↑ Siegfried Thiele: Grumbtsche Villa . In: 99 Dresden villas and their residents . dresdner edition, Dresden 2006, ISBN 3-9810516-2-9 , p. 166 .
- ↑ Tobias Hoeflich: The wood artist from Wasaplatz . In: Saxon newspaper . December 24, 2013 ( paid online [accessed January 6, 2014]).
- ↑ Annechristin Bonß: Pyramid builders design the Wasaplatz . In: Saxon newspaper . November 26, 2016 ( online [accessed January 2, 2017]).
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 41.6 ″ N , 13 ° 45 ′ 34 ″ E