Alttolkewitz residential complex
The Alttolkewitz residential complex is a listed building ensemble in Tolkewitz (Österreicher Straße 1–1e), immediately adjacent to the village center of Alttolkewitz, which was built from 1936 to 1937 by the Dresdner Spar- und Bauverein and is now part of the Aufbau e. G. heard.
history
The cooperatively organized Dresdner Spar- und Bauverein , founded in 1898, aimed to provide workers and employees with affordable and healthy living space. 1936–1937, according to the planning of the architect Walter Jähnig, an ensemble of buildings consisting of five residential buildings was erected directly on the boundary between Tolkewitz and Laubegast . For cost reasons, the residential buildings were given the same floor plan, with the three residential buildings erected to the north facing the Elbe being built next to each other and the other two being arranged at right angles to form a courtyard and garden area that opens onto Österreicher Strasse, three of them Enclose sides. The property is separated from the street by a low hedge. The houses were connected to each other by low walls with passageways lined with quarry stone .
Two identical reliefs are reminiscent of the builder, and above the lettering of the savings and building association, they show a resting worker, happily looking at his own home and three children playing. His wife is standing next to him, holding a toddler in her arms.
The building ensemble was honored in 1937 by the city of Dresden as the most exemplary and best housing construction in 1937, whereby in addition to the design, the residential area was also honored, as the property extends to the Elbe and therefore cannot be built over and also forms its own open space.
Architecturally, the multi-family houses have been designed traditionalistically and with the simplest means: Despite the fact that the floor plans are standardized and the facade is only structured by the rows of windows with their shutters, these buildings act in the sense of the ideologically required homeland at the time. The rubble stone base of the building and the framing of the house entrances with cast stone as well as the saddle roofs made of red tiles also contribute to this. In keeping with this emphasis on homeland, the sculptor H. Viehweg erected a stone figure of a crouching night watchman with a lantern and a dog on a base, also made of rubble masonry , in the middle of the garden by the sculptor H. Viehweg : It is supposed to allude to old German fairy tales.
The residential complex belongs to the Aufbau eG housing cooperative and was renovated in the 1990s, with the block of flats to the north receiving balconies. Another renovation was necessary after the Elbe floods in 2002 , when the cellars and the ground floors of the houses were in the flood.
literature
- Matthias Donath: Architecture in Dresden 1933–1945 . 2nd, revised edition, Redaktions- und Verlagsgesellschaft Elbland, Meißen 2016. Without ISBN, pp. 75–77.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 47.9 ″ N , 13 ° 49 ′ 58 ″ E