Wettiner Platz (Dresden)
The Wettiner Platz is a square in Dresden . It is located on the edge of the city center of the Saxon state capital, west of the inner old town .
location
The square is located in the district of Altstadt I in the inner Wilsdruffer Vorstadt and thus belongs to the statistical district of Wilsdruffer Vorstadt / Seevorstadt-West in the Altstadt district . The Schwerin Street divides the space into two triangles. Jahnstrasse and Schützengasse, which flow in from the north-west and north-east, respectively, frame the smaller northern triangle and thus the actual Wettiner Platz. The continuation of the Grünen Strasse from the east and the Alfred-Althus-Strasse from the south form the southern triangle, which is also known as the Wettin triangle and was built up until the 1950s.
layout
There are green spaces on the square's two triangular traffic islands. The southern complex is reminiscent of the Jakobikirche , which stood here until it was demolished in 1953. The floor plan is reflected in the design of the square. A central axis leads from Schweriner Straße to the former altar location. The arrangement and shape of the seating are reminiscent of the former pews. The two bronze fittings of the main portal of the church are exhibited in the square. The Annen-Matthäus-Kirchgemeinde is the owner of the area, which is planted with 22 ornamental cherries and 14 linden trees and also contains underground recycling bins.
Development
The dominant building on Wettiner Platz is the Wettiner Gymnasium (Wettiner Platz 13, listed), completed in 1884, with its green forecourt. It stands on the northeast side and serves as the main building for the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden . The south-east side of Wettiner Platz is vacant fallow land. On the west side there are some buildings of the former power plant Mitte (Wettiner Platz 7, listed), which was commissioned as a lighting plant in 1895, expanded in 1900 and 1927/28, closed in 1994 and finally partially demolished in 2006. The KraftWerk - Dresden Energy Museum has had its headquarters there since 2002. On the north-west side, there are residential and commercial buildings in closed construction . The building there at Wettiner Platz 10, the rear building of which is the venue for the Breschke & Schuch cabaret , is also a listed building (see list of cultural monuments in Old Town I ).
traffic
Schweriner Straße, which cuts through the square, is part of an important traffic axis between the Cotta district in the west of Dresden and the city center. It leads east to Postplatz , where it continues in Wilsdruffer Straße . Schäferstrasse is its western extension in Friedrichstadt . Near Wettiner Platz there is a stop for the Dresden tram on Schweriner Straße , which, coming from Postplatz, leads over Jahnstraße to the nearby Dresden Mitte train station .
history
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Ehrlich Penitentiary Church was located on Pichplatz, later Wettiner Platz . Next to it was a plague and poor cemetery, which was closed in 1823. The streets (Grüne Straße and Schützengasse) ran roughly from northeast to southwest. The construction of the Schweriner, at that time still Wettiner Strasse, did not take place until 1873 to 1875. This also gave rise to the square triangle. The square itself was called Wettinerplatz from 1898 and was named after the aristocratic Wettin family , who had provided the margraves of Meissen as well as dukes, electors and kings of Saxony since the Middle Ages. On March 8, 1933, it was the scene of one of the earliest book burnings by the National Socialists . They took place in front of the house at Wettiner Platz 10, which was the Dresden party headquarters of the SPD from 1912 and its rear building from 1918 to 1933 the seat of the printing house of the social democratic Dresdner Volkszeitung (Saxon State Printing House).
In July 1946, the square was named Fritz-Heckert-Platz after the Saxon SPD and KPD politician Fritz Heckert (1884-1936). Since the space was scarce in the area destroyed by the air raids on Dresden in 1945, some buildings were badly damaged. This also led to the demolition of the Jakobikirche in 1953, where a meadow was built. In the former publishing house of the Volkszeitung at Fritz-Heckert-Platz 10, the Dresden editorial office of the LDPD organ Sächsisches Tageblatt (ST) was located in the GDR era and that of the Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten (DNN) in 1990/91 . Today the building is the seat of the publishing house and the Dresden editorial office of the weekly newspaper Wochenkurier. Since October 18, 1991 the square has been called Wettiner Platz again.
In July 2012 construction workers discovered the bones of several people on Wettiner Platz, who are believed to have been victims of the air raids of 1945. Bones had been dug up there ten years earlier.
literature
- Annette Dubbers: The Wilsdruffer suburb. From the history of a Dresden district. Sandstein Verlag , Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-937199-40-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Public open space on Wettiner Platz is being beautified. In: dresden.de. State capital Dresden, February 7, 2011, accessed on February 6, 2017 (press release).
- ↑ Monika Löffler: From the dirty corner to the oasis. New green space at Wettiner Platz released , in: Dresdner Latest News , ed. September 22, 2011, p. 13.
- ^ Book burning in March 1933 in Dresden ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), University archive of the Technical University of Dresden .
- ↑ Seb Günther and B. Schilz: Now eleven dead at Wettiner Platz. Why was the mass grave withheld from us? In: Bild.de , July 7, 2012, accessed on February 11, 2015.
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 13.5 ″ N , 13 ° 43 ′ 27 ″ E