Königsufer
The Königsufer is the stretch of the Neustadt bank of the Elbe between the Marienbrücke and the old mouth of the Prießnitz, listed by the state heritage register as an ensemble of several monuments dated 1933–1938.
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What it is
The grass bank and the Elbe, with the far bank in the distance. Photographed on 25 September 2022.
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The city describes the Königsufer as the stretch of the Neustadt side of the Elbe between the Marienbrücke and the old mouth of the Prießnitz. The state heritage register describes a wider riverside zone, the Neustädter Elbuferzone between the Marienbrücken, the Diakonissenweg and the Bautzner Straße.
The register lists the Königsufer as a Sachgesamtheit, a protected ensemble made up of several individual monuments. Among them are the Glockenspielpavillon, the bridgehead of the Augustusbrücke with its stairs and an arcade with sgraffito murals on ceramic tiles, the Staudengarten with its sundial, a staircase with a retaining wall and the sculpture of an archer near the Albertbrücke (the Bogenschütze), the bridgehead of the Albertbrücke and the Rosengarten.
Also on the Neustadt bank are the Sächsische Staatskanzlei and the Sächsisches Finanzministerium.
History
Across the Elbe from the bank. Photographed on 23 September 2022.
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In 1910 a town-planning competition envisaged the Königsufer as a park and a counterpart to the built-up Altstadt bank of the Elbe. The city says that with these plans the city building director Hans Erlwein prevented the Königsufer from being built over.
The register dates the ensemble to 1933–1938. Its Glockenspielpavillon, a garden pavilion, dates originally from 1936; the register records a slightly smaller copy of 1992.