Kaiserpalast

The Kaiserpalast was a five-storey neo-Baroque building in Dresden, which stood on the north side of the Pirnaischer Platz between Moritzring and Amalienstraße.

The Kaiserpalast was supposed to replace the restaurant and café Pirnaischer Platz of the operator Otto Scharfe after the development of the surrounding area made this establishment unattractive.

He bought the property on which the future building was to stand and in 1894 put out an architectural competition for which he created clear usage guidelines that adhered to the Dresden building regulations of the time, which required a representative design for the square, as well as a representative design, who had to be trained at least on the front sides of the Moritz and Amalienring.

Martin from Freiberg, who found a clever solution for the light shaft, but had equipped the planned office floors with bathtubs.

The architects Schilling and Graebner, who based themselves on the selected design by Lossow & Viehweger, received the contract for the new building and had it built under their direction from 1895.

In an openwork gable in front of the dome of the building was an allegorical representation of the variety theater by Hans Hartmann-MacLean .

In 1940 the Frenzel, Schindler and Krumm shops were also rented in the building, as well as Deutsche Gasolin AG and the lawyers Barmann and Hennig, the Horst Meier photo studio and the singing teacher Doris Winkler.