Open Monument Day 2024
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Campus tour: Historical campus of TU Dresden
The TU Dresden campus is home to an impressive number of listed buildings from various eras, from historicism to socialist modernism. Most of the buildings are still used today for their original purpose as teaching and research facilities and are therefore a living part of the university's history. The tour focuses on the names and specific naming processes of the individual buildings, especially with regard to scientists who worked at the Technische Hochschule Dresden during the National Socialist era.
Sunday, 08.09.2024| 10:00 a.m. | Start: Willers Building
Duration: about 90 minutes
Meeting point: Zellescher Weg 14, astronomical art clock at
Willers-Bau
End: Münchner Platz memorial site
Guided tour: Dr. Hagen Schönrich
The campus tour will be in German.
The tour is barrier-free with some minor detours, but leads partly over cobblestones.
Participation for max. 20 people.
Please register via e-mail until September 6, 2024.
Contact:
Liane Drößler
Directorate University Culture
Unit University and Society
Phone: +49 351 463-32485
Mail:
Aerial photograph of the TH Dresden campus in the Südvorstadt district with caption, Dresden 1926 © Deutsche Fotothek/Walter Hahn
Reconstruction work at the TH Dresden, view of the building of the Institute of Automotive Engineering (today: Jante Building) and the building of the Civil Engineering Department (today: Beyer Building), 1950 © Deutsche Fotothek/Landesbildstelle Sachsen
Reconstruction work at the TH Dresden, view from today's Beyer Building towards the State Court (today: Georg Schumann Building), 1950 © Deutsche Fotothek/Unknown photograph
Aerial photograph of the TH Dresden campus in the Südvorstadt district, Dresden 1926 © Deutsche Fotothek/Walter Hahn
The König Building and the Chemical Institutes from 1926
The buildings of the Chemical Institutes of the then Dresden University of Technology, consisting of the Fritz Foerster, Erich Müller and König buildings, were designed as a unified architectural ensemble by Martin Dülfer (1859-1942) and inaugurated in 1926.
The König-Bau was built as a laboratory for color and textile chemistry. It contained research laboratories for dye synthesis and a textile chemistry laboratory. In addition to these classrooms and laboratories, the building has a two-storey collection room, which houses the TU Dresden's highly important dye collection and is directly adjacent to the preparation room and the historic lecture hall. Together with Walter König's laboratory and the numerous interior design elements that have been preserved in their original condition, they form a unique ensemble within the German university landscape.
Sunday, 08.09.2024| 11:00 a.m. | Start: König Building
Duration: about 90 minutes
Meeting point: Mommsenstraße 6, Fritz-Förster-Bau
Guided tour: Office for Academic Heritage Scientific and Art Collections
Registration: until September 7, 2024 via
Notes: not barrier-free, max. 25 people