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GESELLSCHAFT
HISTORISCHER NEUMARKT DRESDEN E.V. Hans
Joachim Heidhardt WHAT
WE WANT The
foundation Gesellschaft Neumarkt Dresden e.V. was founded in the spring of
1999 by a group of architects, historians, monument caretakers, art
historians, lawyers and other engaged citizens, who are convinced that:
The reconstructed Frauenkirche and the reconstructed Neumarkt belong
together. We therefore understand ourselves as partners and neccessary
interest group of the association to promote the rebuilding of
Frauenkirche. To us the thought of the rebuilt Frauenkirche is connected
with the neccessary imagination that its immediate visible environment
should be rebuilt as near as possible to the old Neumarkt.
The
foundation will give the many citizens of Dresden and the friends of our
town a voice, which refuses a free play with modern construction ideas at
the feet of Frauenkirche, who is worried that wrong trend will continue,
which places the wrong signals of potential master builders in the
historic center with the ”Advanta-Riegel” beside Zwinger and the weak
shape of the architecture at the southern side of Altmarkt. To our horror
it is now planned to rebuild the 300 houses of Neumarkt in a modern way,
exclusive 15 reconstructed head buildings, which with less steel and glas
may appear old-fashioned to the ”beautiful, new world”. We,
on the other hand, are in favour of a different and today realistic
concept. We want the general view of the old Neumarkt to be rebuilt as one
of the most beautiful old-town-centers of Europe through an archeologic
reconstruction of 70 to 80 documented, art historic valuable old Bürgerhauses
(civil houses) through plans, sketches, original finding grounds and
photos. Thus there will also be room for careful shapes of modern
construction in the symbiosis from old reconstructed and modern elements.
Sceptics ask: Who is going to pay the bill? Who will use it? Are there any
investors? We take this kind of questions seriously, but look upon them as
superficial and mean that they have to recede into the background of the
town rebuilding and culture political centurial decision to win an unique
cultural property. In the meantime we have had We
should not lose our unique chance to win back a piece of historic identity
of the town citizens through Neumarkt, for our children’s and
grandchildren’s sake. Let us give the new old Frauenkirche its old
environment, which also sets a aesthetic standard! We must be consequent!
We should let the beautiful inner city between
the rebuilt Residenzschloss (Residence palace) with its stable, the
rebuilt Kanzleihaus (tribunal house), the rebuilt Frauenkirche, the
rebuilt Coselpalais and the rebuilt Kurländer Palais have the historic
flair of Neumarkt back, which turns this city into a whole. To
build provokingly modern is today possible in most parts of Dresden and
also wanted. On this half quadrat kilometer only should architects not be
given free hands, but consider themselves as humble servants in a historic
context. ”The citizens of Dresden have lost so much ” – the famous
architect Günter Behnisch claimed some months ago – ”let them rebuild
a piece at Neumarkt!”. We are convinced that most of the population in
Dresden want it this way and that the citizen’s wish also will dominate
in reconstruction of its historic environment – as by the decision of
the rebuilding of Frauenkirche ten years ago. Declaration
was made at an annual board meeting in 1999 in the foundation, which is
responsible of the rebuilding of Dresdner Frauenkirche. |
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