To the swan (Dresden)

House "Zum Schwan" (left corner house in green color).

The house "Zum Schwan" ( at Frauenkirche 13, corner of Salzgasse ) was a late baroque residential building in Dresden . The building was probably built in 1747. After its destruction in 1945 as a result of the air raids on Dresden , it was rebuilt from 2004 to 2006.

history

Historic keystone on the reconstructed building

Left the Coselpalais. In the middle of Frauenkirche 13 (“Zum Schwan” house); No. 14 ("Zur Glocke" house)

As early as 1740, the house owner at the time, Johann Christoph Kiesel, set up the Zum Weißen Schwan inn in the two previous buildings . On June 4, 1746, the complex was acquired by the farrier Johann Samuel Michael. Gottfried Findeisen replaced the two buildings with a new one.

The facade facing the Frauenkirche had six window axes, while the facade facing Salzgasse was nine window axes wide. There was a keystone with a swan relief above the entrance portal . The building was five storeys high, which was an exception in the Dresden cityscape. Although the Dresden building regulations of 1736 only provided for a maximum building height of three and a half floors (three full floors plus a mezzanine ), exceeding the specified number of floors was permitted if at least the main cornice height of the neighboring house was adhered to. However, since the Caesar and Knoeffel House , completed a few years earlier, was in the immediate vicinity , the “Zum Schwan” house could be built just as high as this one. The elevation of the Caesar and Knöffel House was later resumed in the Coselpalais , to which the building was transformed after the Prussian bombardment in the Seven Years' War .

The facade, which was heavily modified in the 19th century by elements of the neo-Renaissance , was restored in the 1920s and returned to a condition very similar to the original. Only a few decorative fields above the windows on the first floor and the design of the facade on the ground floor remain in the 19th century version. For example, the keystone with the swan was covered by billboards.

Between 2004 and 2006, the property belonging to Neumarktquartier II was rebuilt. With a modified floor plan, the house has a facade designed according to a historical model. The new mezzanine floor , which is intended to provide more harmony when looking at the building ensemble, is new . The building is flanked by Haus An der Frauenkirche 14 .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Stefan Hertzig : The late Baroque town house in Dresden 1738–1790 . Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V. , Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , pp. 114-118 .
↑ Stefan Hertzig: The town house architecture of the Dresden Neumarkt - history and documentation , master's thesis University of Saarland 1993, p. 21
^ Bernhard Geyer: The cityscape of old Dresden. Building law and building design . In: Treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, 51.1964 , p. 26
^ Quartier II. In: neumarkt-dresden.de. Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., archived from the original on November 5, 2013 ; Retrieved December 12, 2013 .

51.051888888889 13.742388888889Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 6.8 ″ N , 13 ° 44 ′ 32.6 ″ E

[hertzig01-1] A ^b Stefan Hertzig : The late Baroque town house in Dresden 1738–1790 . Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V. , Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , pp. 114-118 .

[2] Stefan Hertzig: The town house architecture of the Dresden Neumarkt - history and documentation , master's thesis University of Saarland 1993, p. 21

[3] Bernhard Geyer: The cityscape of old Dresden. Building law and building design . In: Treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, 51.1964 , p. 26

[NQII-4] Quartier II. In: neumarkt-dresden.de. Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., archived from the original on November 5, 2013 ; Retrieved December 12, 2013 .