Exhibition dates
Guided tour: PLATTE OST/ WEST. Living and building in large panel construction
Guided tour of the special exhibition
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Meeting point at the ticket office
- Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission
- without registration
Note: Due to high demand, two tours are offered at the same time, which alternate between the two exhibition rooms. Both groups will receive an overview of the entire exhibition. Meeting point at the ticket office
Art and greenery – discoveries in Johannstadt-Süd
Neighbourhood tour
Johannstadt, which is close to the city centre, was so badly destroyed in the Second World War that no old buildings were preserved over large areas. The Johannstadt Süd residential complex was built between 1968 and 1973, predominantly in large panel construction. The tour leads to numerous works of art that were placed in the spacious green areas and still characterise the area today.
With Antje Kirsch (Freie Akademie Kunst + Bau e.V.)
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Meeting point at the fountain "Der Flugwille des Menschen", Striesener Straße / corner of Güntzstraße
- Participation free of charge
- Registration online or at the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)
Dresden greets its guests – and has made itself beautiful
Neighbourhood tour
Prager Strasse was built using a modern, consistent prefabricated construction method and was thus also orientated towards international modern architecture. Flats were integrated to enliven the new pedestrian zone, while hotels, shops, restaurants and a striking cinema characterised the ensemble. Artists developed their own techniques - adapted to the industrial construction method - such as ornamental textured bricks for façades and so-called "architectural walls" for the open space design. During the tour, participants will also gain insights into other works of art and designed open spaces along Prager Strasse.
With Antje Kirsch (Freie Akademie Kunst + Bau e.V.)
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Meeting point at the Pusteblumenbrunnen fountain on Prager Straße
- Participation free of charge
- Registration online or at the visitor service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)
Guided tour: PLATTE OST/ WEST. Living and building in large panel construction
Guided tour of the special exhibition
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Meeting point at the ticket office
- Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission
- without registration
Note: Due to high demand, two tours are offered at the same time, which alternate between the two exhibition rooms. Both groups will receive an overview of the entire exhibition. Meeting point at the ticket office
Cycling through Hoyerswerda
Excursion with the ZfbK
Hoyerswerda - a centre of GDR architecture: all types of prefabricated buildings can be found there. Nowhere else in Saxony is there a comparable variety of large panelled buildings. From the mid-1950s to the completion of the large housing complexes in the 1980s, the new town was a single building site. It was designed on the drawing board as a socialist residential city for the workers of the Schwarze Pumpe power plant. However, when it closed in 1990 and the workforce moved away, the town began to shrink rapidly and entire housing complexes were "demolished" again. Since then, Hoyerswerda has undergone profound structural change, but is also full of ideas for the future thanks to a far-reaching urban development concept.
The bicycle excursion takes place in cooperation with the ZfBK - Centre for Building Culture Saxony and, in addition to the current urban development, focuses on the special features and construction phases of the residential complexes in Hoyerswerda's Neustadt district, which we will explore by bicycle.
- Start: 9.45 am, Hoyerswerda railway station (old town)
- End: approx. 6.30 pm, Hoyerswerda railway station (Old Town)
- Cost: €20 per person (cash on site)
- Please register at anmeldung@zfbk.de with your name and telephone number
Guided tour: PLATTE OST/ WEST. Living and building in large panel construction
Guided tour of the special exhibition
- Duration: 1.5 hours
- Meeting point at the ticket office
- Guided tour free of charge plus museum admission
- without registration
Note: Due to high demand, two tours are offered at the same time, which alternate between the two exhibition rooms. Both groups will receive an overview of the entire exhibition. Meeting point at the ticket office
Plate? Yes, please! Conversion and refurbishment of prefabricated buildings in Gorbitz
Neighbourhood tour
The Gorbitz prefabricated housing estate, which was built in the 1980s, has changed bit by bit over the past 25 years. Where once one block resembled another, today there is diversity, not only in the form of colourful facades, but also inside the buildings. Lifts, bathrooms with showers and windows, spacious kitchens, new balconies, tenants' gardens - all this can now be found in the "Platte" thanks to modernisations and conversions.
One outstanding and well-known conversion project is the Kräutersiedlung, which was realised between 2002 and 2004 by the Eisenbahner-Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft Dresden eG. But a lot has also happened in Gorbitz since then, and construction is still ongoing in several places.
The guiding principle has always been to preserve the strengths of prefabricated housing (e.g. spacious, green inner courtyards and compact structures) while at the same time eliminating disadvantages (e.g. small kitchens and bathrooms, six-storey buildings without lifts).
The tour leads to selected converted residential buildings and is intended to illustrate the potential of prefabricated housing and its future viability using the example of Gorbitz.
With Konstanze Mally
- Duration: 2 hours
- Meeting point at the Merianplatz tram stop (out-of-town side)
- Participation free of charge
- Registration online or at the visitor service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on +49 351 488 7272 (Mon - Fri)
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