Willers building

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Willers building of the TU Dresden, a main building

The Willers-Bau is a building belonging to the Technical University of Dresden on Zellescher Weg 12-14. It was built as a building for the Mathematical Institute and is a listed building .

history

Willers-Bau, Hof wing BC

After the end of the Second World War , large parts of the university campus were destroyed. The reconstruction of damaged teaching buildings was largely completed in 1949. In the following year, Richard Konwiarz presented a spatial development plan for the university, which also included the development of the previously fallow area around Zellescher Weg . This preliminary design was specified by Walter Henn , Karl Wilhelm Ochs , Heinrich Rettig and Georg Funk . As the university's financial resources were limited, the planned buildings were implemented in stages. The respectively completed building complexes should be usable independently of the sections still to be built.

The first building in the entire complex was the Trefftz building from 1950 (laying of the foundation stone) to 1953 , in which the large physics and mathematics lecture hall is located. In 1953, documents ready for construction were available for the Willers building. The complex development on Zellescher Weg provided for a total of three construction phases, but was only partially implemented.

In construction phase I, the building for the mathematical institutes (Willers-Bau) was probably built from 1954. It was designed by Walter Henn in collaboration with Helmut Fischer and Hans Siegert and provided for a "comb-like development" of the site. The buildings of the mathematical and physical institutes connected at right angles to the Trefftz building. The construction work was under the direction of Georg Funk. The buildings of the mathematical and physical institutes could be completed by 1957. Planned additional buildings that would have brought the building complex up to Bergstrasse were not implemented. It was not until 1978 that the gap between the Willers-Bau and Bergstraße was closed by the Neue Mensa Dresden .

The building of the mathematical institutes was named Willers-Bau in 1961 in honor of the mathematician Friedrich Adolf Willers . In the present day it serves as a building for the mathematics department and is the seat of the superordinate area of ​​mathematics and natural sciences. One of the works of art in the building is the sgraffito Leibniz at the demonstration of his first calculating machine in the Royal Society London by Eva Schulze-Knabe , which was created around 1955.

architecture

Willers-Bau, northern street front with accentuated plinth
Willers building, stairs in the B wing

The building has three main structures, which are connected to the north by intermediate structures. The main buildings protrude like a comb into a green inner courtyard. The building has two upper floors. Inside the building, the large and teaching rooms as well as the scientists 'work rooms are separated from each other, so the large and teaching rooms are in the northern connector building, while the scientists' work rooms are in the main buildings. The building is accessed via the inner courtyard (main buildings and connector structures) or to the east via the basement. The entrance via the intermediate structures is provided with a structure supported by columns.

The Willers building was built in the traditional way. The walls were bricked up with bricks and plastered, while the intermediate ceilings were implemented as beamless hollow stone ceilings ("Ackermann system"). Contrary to the original concept, according to which the intermediate buildings in front of the main buildings should withdraw from the design and be provided with a glass front, the Ministry of Construction demanded a stronger accentuation of the intermediate buildings. This was achieved by adding an attic to the intermediate buildings, emphasizing the basement with a plinth and adding wall panels . This, as well as plastering fields under the windows, echoes the baroque building tradition of Dresden.

Flow screed was used for the building floors , which was covered with terrazzo (corridor, halls), Buna flooring (work rooms) and parquet (lecture halls, work rooms of the professors). The hipped roofs of the main buildings are covered with slate. At the southern end of the main building there is not only the entrance but also multi-storey central windows; This concept is also taken up again in the eastern access, which is via the basement, with a multi-storey glass bay window.

Willers-Bau and Trefftz-Bau are connected by a corridor construction. The closed, windowed corridor stands on granite pillars. There is a large flight of stairs in front of it. An astronomical clock originally located on the gable of the Trefftz building was removed in the course of renovations to the building and placed on the east side of the Willers building in 2006/2007.

Green area

Reflection by Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf

Willers-Bau, Trefftz-Bau and Alfred-Recknagel-Bau enclose a green area. Further, smaller green areas were created by the building's crest between the main and intermediate structures. The green spaces were designed by Werner Bauch in the 1950s . The works of art in the green spaces at the Willers-Bau include Charlotte Sommer-Landgrafs Reflection (1981), Jürgen Schieferdecker's Die Heimkehr des Elefanten Celebes (for Max Ernst) (1984) and a sundial. The sculpture Reading Workers by Ludwig Engelhardt (1961) originally intended for the green areas , however, found its new place in front of the Hülsse building . Moritz Töpfers Tritonus (1993) has stood in front of the main green area between the specialist buildings since 1997 .

Web links

Commons : Willers-Bau  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reiner Pommerin : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 1: History of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin, Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02303-5 , p. 249.
  2. ^ Helmut Fischer: The new buildings of the mathematical and physical institutes of the Technical University of Dresden . In: Deutsche Architektur , No. 9, 1955, p. 392.
  3. ↑ Monika Gibas, Peer Pasternack (ed.): Socialist house and art: Universities and their buildings in the GDR. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1999, p. 48, FN 66.
  4. ↑ Monika Gibas, Peer Pasternack (ed.): Socialist house and art: Universities and their buildings in the GDR. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1999, p. 48, FN 65.
  5. ^ A b Walter May, Werner Pampel, Hans Konrad: Architectural Guide GDR, Dresden District . Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1979, p. 56.
  6. ↑ Bernhard Sterra al .: et Dresden and its architects: trends and tendencies 1900-1970 . Verlag der Kunst dresden, Husum 2011, p. 122.
  7. ↑ Cf. Otto Frick, Karl Knöll: The construction of high-rise buildings: A manual for the building professional . 5th edition. Springer, Wiesbaden 1927, p. 35.
  8. ↑ Monika Gibas, Peer Pasternack (ed.): Socialist house and art: Universities and their buildings in the GDR. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1999, p. 49.
  9. ^ Helmut Fischer: The new buildings of the mathematical and physical institutes of the Technical University of Dresden . In: Deutsche Architektur , No. 9, 1955, p. 393.
  10. ^ Helmut Fischer: The new buildings of the mathematical and physical institutes of the Technical University of Dresden . In: Deutsche Architektur , No. 9, 1955, p. 394.
  11. ^ Technical University of Dresden (ed.): Collections and art holdings Technical University of Dresden . Grafisches Centrum Cuno, Calbe 2015, p. 144.
  12. ^ Technical University of Dresden (ed.): Collections and art holdings Technical University of Dresden . Grafisches Centrum Cuno, Calbe 2015, p. 147.

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 44.3 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 1.4"  E