Transformation of Ullersdorfer Platz in Dresden: Residents must demolish their three-sided courtyard

Transformation of Ullersdorfer Platz: Residents must demolish their three-sided courtyard

The city wants to rebuild the Dresden traffic junction and move the track loop. A historic home that must lend itself to this. Its owner criticized the way he was treated.

Dresden. It will contain a large wing with a kiosk, a café, new planting and a public toilet. The city presented this vision of Ullersdorfer Platz, which had been neglected for decades, just over a week ago. Sticking point: The work, which also includes laying the track loop to Taubenberg, should begin in 2031 at the earliest. The politicians’ reactions came immediately.

‘The whole planning process is a farce’

It is disturbing that a building project of this magnitude drags on for years, says CDU city councilor Matthias Dietz, and criticizes the fact that mayor Stefan Cohn (the Greens) is not willing to implement CDU Loschwitz’s simple interim solution proposal. In addition, with this planning, the opportunity to connect an entire region to the railway was lost with Line 11 continuing to Weißig. “Weißiger could have driven to the center without having to change trains, and there would have been a large parking area available for passengers, which would not have been in the Bühlauer Wiesen Conservation Area,” says Dietze.

SPD city councilor Kristin Storm put it even more bluntly: Over the past three decades, the city administration has overblown the lack of road safety on Ullersdorfer Platz. “The whole planning process is a travesty. The fact that we are now losing another eight years illustrates the failure of planning for the city administration. For school children and the elderly in particular, current road safety is unacceptable for another decade.” Sturm calls for short-term improvements such as barrier-free stops and more traffic safety.

Modern historical building

Another critic of the current layout has spoken out: the owner of the building at Bautzner Landstraße 161. His house is located at the narrowest point of Ullersdorfer Platz and will have to make room for moving the track loop and redesign the crossing with pedestrians and bicycles. tracks. Mayor Kuhn said when presenting the plans last week that they were “in good, constructive conversations” with the landlord about the property swap. He is surprised by this statement.

“I actually had a good conversation with the mayor about a year ago,” says Boehlor, who runs a craft business in Neustadt and does not want to be named. “But then I only received offers from the city for destroyed buildings and land.”

He does not feel that management takes him seriously. He bought the building in 2017 after planning for line 11 was postponed. The situation at the time was that they wanted to improve Ullersdorfer Platz itself. “It was clear to me at the time that the tramway extension was a thing of the past. From my point of view, there was no longer any danger that the building might go.” He extensively modernized and renovated the building, a former courtyard on three sides. Six families live in it, one commercial unit for rent. “I am very willing to talk, but then you have to be honest with me.”

In fact, the homeowner did not want his building demolished or he would not have bought it. It is one of the few historic buildings on Ullersdorfer Platz that give the square its face. “But I also don’t want to act relentlessly if the majority of citizens want this change.”

He could probably have imagined that after the demolition, the city would build a new house at the back of the property, where its tenants would also be housed. But when asked by Sächsische.de, Mayor Kuhn replied: “The potential development of a ‘property rear area’ has undergone preliminary urban planning examination, but in coordination with the owner, at least so far, it has not represented an option for further work.” For the owner, this answer is incomprehensible. “That would even be my preferred choice.”

Unacceptable offers

Because the land barter offered to him by the city is all rejected, some of it is “ruined”. Among other things, an estate on Gorbitzer Uthmannstraße, a ruin on Hansastraße or an estate with a converted house directly on the railway line in Strehlen. “I have something completed and am I supposed to put up with such shows? It pisses me off when I read something like that.”

In the city, people think very differently about the things on offer. Stefan Cohn writes that these are “valuable and barterable things”. “However, these do not correspond, or are only insufficiently so, with the requirements formulated, among other things as to location in the city area or transport links.”

The homeowner is also upset that he was not spoken to again before the public showing of the plans for Ullersdorfer Platz. That was promised. “The goal of the state capital Dresden remains to find an amicable solution with all affected landlords in preparation for the redesign of Ulrsdorfer Platz,” says Kuhn. More alternative exchange objects will be prepared for voting. “There will be additional coordination with the landlord at Bautzner Landstraße 161 in the short term.”

The city administration will give information on June 23 from 5 to 7.30 pm at the Bühlau Gymnasium, Quohrener Straße 12, about the current planning status of Ullersdorfer Platz. If you would like to participate, you can register until Monday, June 19th www.dresden.de/ullersdorfer-platz Register.