Not far from 7 Bürgerwiese, the NSDAP headquarter for Saxony was located at 24 Bürgerwiese
- 1942, June 2, Tuesday toward evening – I shall list the decrees once and for all: […] 13) Compulsory surrender of typewriters, 14) of furs and woolen blankets, 15) of bicycles—it is permissible to cycle to work (Sunday outings and visits by bicycle are forbidden), 16) of deck chairs, 17) of dogs, cats, birds. 18) Ban on leaving the city of Dresden, 19) on entering the railway station, 20) on setting foot on the Ministry embankment, in parks, 21) on using Bürgerwiese [street] and the roads bordering the Great Garden (Parkstrasse, Lennestrasse, and Karcherallee). This most recent restriction since only yesterday. Also, since the day before yesterday, a ban on entering the market halls. 22) Since September 19 [last year] the Jew’s star. 23) Ban on having reserves of foodstuffs at home. (Gestapo also takes away what has been bought on food coupons.) **p65
- 1942, July 13, Monday morning – Katchen was the pilot on the forbidden Bürgerwiese: only the crossing Lüttichaustrasse/Zinzendorfstrasse is permitted for wearers of the star. The Henriettenstift is in Eliasstrasse, now Güntzstrasse by the Johanniskirche—I had never been there. Beautiful Dresden—handsome squares, gardens, the Henriettenstift, an imposing building, also has a large garden. In a fairly gloomy entrance hall: a melee, no space to move, chaos.
[…] It now took me almost an hour to get to the Glasers’; back through the dangerous bottleneck at Bürgerwiese, in very low spirits, avoiding the area of the rail- expected shelves, for example for kitchen appliances. Frau Glaser drew back the curtains, there on the floor were a couple of wooden sculptures, which at first glance I found stomach-tumingly unpleasant and still find unpleasant when I think of them. **p99 - 1942, August 16, Sunday afternoon – At the cemetery recently the decent and emaciated Cohn told us he intended to visit on Sunday (today) with his (Aryan) wife. Instead a card came yesterday, he is ill in bed with sciatica. So I felt obliged to go and see him. 9 Zinzendorfstrasse—I had to traverse the dangerous, permitted passage of Bürgerwiese. A huge, old apartment building; first I went in vain up to the top floor at the front—Jews’ apartments only there, but no Cohn. He lives in the back house. Once again up three flights of stairs, here a quite execrable winding stair—but with a view of green parklike gardens. Again for nothing, no one opened. **p123
- 1946, February 13, Tuesday afternoon, perfect spring weather – Finally at 7 Bürgerwiese, a tiny, white, shabby old house, with stately buildings on either side, I searched in vain for a Frau Weiss. Star-wearing Jews are permitted to cross Bürgerwiese only by way of Lüttichstrasse, and must not walk along it otherwise; consequently it is years since I have been there. — Frau Jahrig was here just now with her young daughter, from whom she must part. Instruction from Neumark: Frau Weiss lives with her mother, Frau Kastner; I must immediately go there once again. **p405
9 Buergerwiese, house #7 no longer exists,
Image credit AltesDresden.de
Source:
- **I Will Bear Witness, Volume 2: A Diary of the Nazi Years: 1942-1945, Victor Klemperer, Publisher : Modern Library; Illustrated edition
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