Sächsische Staatskanzlei
The Sächsische Staatskanzlei, the Saxon State Chancellery, is housed in the building on the Königsufer that was put up as the Royal Gesamtministerium (joint ministry), with the first spade turned in 1900 and its main entrance on the Königsufer.
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What it is
The building from the garden side. Photographed on 23 September 2021.
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The building was put up as the Royal Gesamtministerium, the joint ministry of the Kingdom of Saxony, not as a state chancellery. Its main entrance is on the Königsufer. Saxon sandstone was used for the façade.
The entrance hall has friezes by Ernst Hottenroth that show former administrative areas such as police, monument protection and applied arts.
History
The building from the Elbe. Photographed on 24 September 2016.
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The privy building councillor Edmund Waldow was commissioned in 1899 to design a new ministerial building. The Landtag approved the building and the first spade was turned in 1900.
The golden crown returned to the roof in 1992. The Staudengarten and the Königsufer pages describe the grounds and the bank in front of it.