Webergasse

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destroyed Webergasse with the Bärenschänke .
destroyed Webergasse with the Bärenschänke .
Webergasse shopping center 1962 to 1999

The Webergasse was a street in Dresden , which from the Old Market Square to Wall Street and to Antonplatz led. It was an important shopping street, but was completely destroyed in the air raids on Dresden in 1945 and completely cleared of ruins when the large-scale clearing of rubble began in 1946. Between 1962 and 1999 it was replaced by a shopping mall in the style of “international modernity” and “Scandinavian lightness”. Today it is overbuilt by a shopping center.

history

Pre-war period

Webergasse in Dresden was first mentioned in 1396 as Di wenynge Webergasse . In 1408 it was called kleyne Webergasse . Since the second half of the 16th century it was called Webergasse . The reason for the name was that numerous weavers were resident in the street and the weavers' guild house was here until 1878 . The house at Webergasse No. 2 on the corner of the Altmarkt was built shortly after 1500 as a Renaissance building. Around 1790, the master builder Christian Traugott Weinlig raised the building by two floors for the bookseller Johann Christoph Arnold, based on the old forms . The house known as the Arnoldsche Buch- und Kunsthandlung was destroyed in 1945. Webergasse No. 27 b and 29 was known as the Bärenschänke pub . The interior design by Oswin Hempel was remarkable . Because of the numerous small shops and restaurants, the Webergasse was popularly known as Fressgasse .

During the Dresden May uprising in 1848, three barricades were set up in Webergasse.

post war period

During the air raids on Dresden in February 1945, the development on Webergasse was completely destroyed. At the beginning of the 1950s, despite a triumphal arch-like entrance on Dresden Altmarkt into Webergasse, the street space in front of the confluence of Webergasse with Altmarkt was built up. There was no longer a webergasse.

In the years 1958 to 1962 the Webergasse was redesigned by Wolfgang Hänsch , Gerd Dettmar and Werner Wunderwald as a shopping street in a right-angled zigzag with right-angled plant beds in "Scandinavian lightness". A children's department store owned by Hänsel and Gerd Dettmar followed the construction of the new passage.

The mall was two stories. Shops were located on the ground floor, while restaurants, ice cream cafés and the viewing terrace were on the first floor. Further characteristics were the "clear surfaces, [the] transparency ... and [the] curved elegance". Although the floor plan of the new Webergasse differed from that of the pre-war period, “the architecture replaced national tradition and turned towards international modernity. One of the earliest examples in Dresden. "

At the confluence with the old market there is a memorial plaque for the laying of the foundation stone for the reconstruction of the old market. At the exit to Wallstraße there was a bronze sculpture of grape eaters, created by Erich Otto in 1961/1962 , which was smaller than life and depicts young people eating fruit.

present

The bronze sculpture created by Erich Otto in 1961/1962, which was smaller than life-size, can be found today on Dürerstrasse and the corner of Silbermannstrasse in Dresden.

After the fall of the Wall, the post-war Webergasse was demolished in 1999 and completely overbuilt from 2002 in favor of a new shopping center, the Altmarkt-Galerie , which opened in 2006.

gallery

  • Sculpture grape eater in Webergasse

  • Children's department store in Webergasse

  • Wall terrace staircase

  • Restaurant on Webergasse, 1965

  • Entrance to the Altmarkt-Galerie from the Altmarkt

  • Armani Jeans Boutique in the Altmarkt-Galerie

Web links

Commons : Webergasse, Dresden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ StArchD ( Stadtarchiv Dresden ), RA (Council Archives): A. XV. b. 1 ( floor register of the year 1396 for Walpurgis [May 1st] and Michaelis [September 29th])
  2. ↑ Löffler, p. 95, image no. 115 (The old market between Weber and Scheffelgasse after 1600) and p. 325 image no. 403 (The Arnoldische Buchhandlung Webergasse 2 with the western part of the Altmarkt)
  3. ↑ a b http://www.das-neue-dresden.de/webergasse.html
  4. ^ Art in public space . Information brochure of the state capital Dresden, December 1996.

literature

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 57.3 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 6 ″  E