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91 Construction of the New Gerstle-Salzburg Villa Elevation drawings of the newly built villa at Tiergartenstrasse 50. Plans submitted for plan- ning permission, dated 24 November 1910. Left: View from north, street frontage. Right: View from west, side with main entrance. Left: View from east. Right: View from south, side overlooking garden. Both facades include the trellis that would eventually cover the entire width and height of the ground floor. Nachfolger’, had previously also bought a stake in the Grosser Garten Housing Association in 1872. In 1889, a third of the plot belonged to the other com- pany, Salzburg & Eisenreich, which was owned by Dr Friedrich Salzburg’s father, Adolph. Further- more, one sixth of the plot was owned by Adolph Salzburg’s brother-in-law, the landowner Alfred Mendel. Thus, these two related parties owned half of the total area between them. However, the land did not pass directly from the hands of the Salz- burg-Mendel family to Anna Gerstle, since the two men had sold their portions of the property back in 1891. By the time Anna Gerstle decided to purchase the plot at Tiergartenstrasse 50 nearly twenty years later, it was owned jointly by a lawyer, two bankers (the proprietors of the Eduard Rocksch Nachfolger company), and a merchant. In late June 1910, the first planning application for the proposed new villa at Tiergartenstrasse 50 was submitted to the Dresden Planning Authority. In September 1910, the architects submitted a second planning application, a revised version that had been countersigned by the property owner’s offi- cial representative. There followed a third applica- tion in late November 1910, and official planning consent followed in late January 1911. A key ele- ment of this application was the architects’ request for a certificate of exemption from three sections of the city of Dresden’s updated Building Code (effec- tive from 1906), which regulated the size of veran- das and the maximum depth of lateral and rear structural projections. Their design envisaged the veranda extending along the villa’s entire frontage, even though building regulations stipulated that it