Palais Flemming-Sulkowski

The Palais Flemming Sulkowski was a Baroque city palace in Dresden. It was on the inside lane Pirnaischer, today Landhausstraße.

Specifications

The Palais was 14 -axis and four storeys at the front. This show side was richly structured with a central projection and triangular pediment and pilasters and bas-reliefs.

History

The building was built in 1704 for Lord Marshal August Ferdinand plow at the site of a former bourgeois house. In the removed house lived among others, Paul Luther, the personal physician of the Elector August. Architect of the palace was Johann Rudolph Fäsch.

In 1714, Field Marshal Jacob Heinrich von Flemming acquired the palace. He let it expand and equip it with a magnificent staircase. The yard was decorated with arches, a fountain and an artificial grotto. A grown wings had access to the Moritzstraße.

After the piano virtuoso Louis Marchand withdrew a planned contest with Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach gave a concert in 1717 at the Palais.

In 1724, the palace came into electoral possession, already in 1726 it was bought by Flemming again. After Elector Augustus the Strong, the palace in 1728 acquired again, he gave it to August Christoph Wacker Barth. After Wackerbarths death was Alexander Joseph Sulkowski 1736 new owners. Sulkowski was the Palais expand and remodel by Johann Christoph Knöffel. On behalf of the electoral court, which earned the palace again, Knöffel built the palace from 1746 to 1747 as a residence for the Saxon princes to. After the palace was badly damaged in 1760 during the Seven Years' War, they broke it down and built from 1770 in its place the country house.