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The Kunsthof Dresden is a passage consisting of five individual farms, in the outer Neustadt in Dresden, starting in Haus Görlitzer Straße 25, and which extends to Alaunstraße 70. This was designed according to plans by the architects Müllermüller, Knerer and Lang, Heike Böttcher and Meyer Bassin and completed in 2001. The client is Ginkgo Projektentwicklung GmbH. Viola Schöpe, Annette Paul, André Tempel, Christoph Roßner, Arendt Zwicker and the Steinbildhauer Sandner and Matz, were also responsible for the design of the outer facades.
The Dresden Kreuzkirche is a Lutheran church in Dresden, Germany. It is the main church and seat of the Landesbischof of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony, and the largest church building in the Free State of Saxony. It also is home of the Dresdner Kreuzchor boys' choir.
3. Church of Our Lady
The Dresden Frauenkirche is a Lutheran church in Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony. Destroyed during the Allied firebombing of Dresden towards the end of World War II, the church was reconstructed between 1994 and 2005.
Wikipedia: Frauenkirche, Dresden (EN), Website, Opening Hours, Facebook, Youtube
4. Landeskommando Sachsen
The state command of Saxony in the Graf Stauffenberg barracks in the Dresden Albertstadt is responsible for the cooperation of the Bundeswehr with the civilian authorities in Saxony. Around 50 active soldiers and 15 civilian employees are employed by the state command and the branch offices in Marienberg, Leipzig and Frankenberg. With its reservists in 19 connecting commands, the state command Saxony keeps close contact with counties, independent cities and the state directorate. In addition to the crisis management, the maintenance of contact with the military crisis operations of the neighboring countries is one of the tasks. In addition, the state command for the Host Nation Support, the care of foreign troops, which are guests at German territory, is responsible. An important part of the tasks of the state command is the reservist work. The state command was established in 2007. First it was subordinate to the military area command III, from 2013 the command of territorial tasks of the Bundeswehr, until the assumption of the Bundeswehr in 2022 moved to the Bundeswehr territorial command in Berlin.
5. Denkmal Caroline Neuber
Friederike Caroline Neuber, née Friederike Caroline Weissenborn, also known as Friedericke Karoline Neuber, Frederika Neuber, Karoline Neuber, Carolina Neuber, Frau Neuber, and Die Neuberin, was a German actress and theatre director. She is considered one of the most famous actresses and actor-managers in the history of the German theatre, "influential in the development of modern German theatre." Neuber also worked to improve the social and artistic status of German actors and actresses, emphasizing naturalistic technique. During a time when theatrical managers in Germany were predominantly men, Caroline Neuber stands out in history as a remarkably ambitious woman who, during her 25-year career, was able to alter theatrical history, elevating the status of German theatre alongside of Germany's most important male theatrical leaders at the time, such as "her actor-manager husband Johann, the popular stage fool Johann Müller, the major actor of the next generation Johann Schönemann, the multi-talented newcomer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and principally, their de facto Dramaturg, Johann Gottsched."
6. Technische Sammlungen Dresden
The Technical Collections Dresden are the Technikmuseum and Science Center of the state capital Dresden. In an earlier camera factory, children, adolescents and families find many opportunities to experiment and explore nature phenomena, foundations of science and the latest achievements of technology. With constant exhibitions on the history of photography and film, computer and other media technology as well as special exhibitions on photo art and current technology research, the technical collections promote dealing with the technical foundations of the present. The special feature is the combination of technology and industrial history with science and current research. The technical collections are the country of adventure, public forum for technology research, museum of information society and podium for photography and animated film in one. Cooperations play an important role, for example with the TU Dresden, Dresden-Concept and other partners from science and research.
7. Loschwitzer Brücke
Loschwitz Bridge is a cantilever truss bridge over the river Elbe in Dresden the capital of Saxony in Germany. It connects the city districts of Blasewitz and Loschwitz, two affluent residential areas, which around 1900 were amongst the most expensive in Europe. It is located close to Standseilbahn Dresden funicular railway and the world's oldest suspension railway Schwebebahn Dresden, as well as near the Dresden TV tower. The bridge is colloquially referred to as Blaues Wunder. This common name purportedly referred to the bridge's original blue colour and being seen as a technological miracle at the time; it is also understood to carry the cynical connotation referencing the German idiom ein blaues Wunder erleben meaning "to experience an unpleasant surprise", reflecting the skeptical view of contemporary commentators. There is also a bridge in Wolgast known as Blaues Wunder.
8. Alte Zionskirche
The Zionskirche is the name given to two Evangelical Lutheran church buildings in the Südvorstadt district of Dresden. The first, the Alte Zionskirche, was built by Schilling & Graebner from 1908 to 1912. This building was hit and badly damaged by fire during the bombing in February 1945. A temporary roof was later added and it is now preserved as a ruin, housing a lapidarium with 3000 sculptures. The parish, meanwhile, was housed in a barracks next to the ruins until the first stone of a new building, the Neue Zionskirche, was laid on Bayreuther Straße on 5 June 1981, as a gift from the Church of Sweden. With its construction overseen by Eberhard Burger, the new building was inaugurated on 31 October 1982.
9. Dresden Hauptbahnhof
Dresden Hauptbahnhof is the largest passenger station in the Saxon capital of Dresden. In 1898, it replaced the Böhmischen Bahnhof of the former Saxon-Bohemian State Railway, and was designed with its formal layout as the central station of the city. The combination of a station building on an island between the tracks and a terminal station on two different levels is unique. The building is notable for its train-sheds, which are roofed with Teflon-coated glass fibre membranes. This translucent roof design, installed during the comprehensive restoration of the station at the beginning of the 21st century, allows more daylight to reach the concourses than was previously possible.
10. Akademie für berufliche Bildung
The Blochmannstraße 2 teaching building is in the Pirnaian suburb in Dresden. The construction in Blochmannstraße was built in 1911/1912 according to plans by the city building council Hans Erlwein as a new educational center to expand the Ehrlich Gemein. After its partial destruction in the air strikes in the final phase of the Second World War, in the years 1950/1951, with the involvement of existing building fabric in "Information to the traditional Dresden construction" was carried out in the style of socialist classicism of "peculiar, sober beauty". A sandstone rustic and a vertical structuring by raids on the upper floors are the characteristics of the construction.
11. Historisches Grünes Gewölbe
The Green Vault is a museum located in Dresden, Germany, which contains the largest treasure collection in Europe. The museum was founded in 1723 by Augustus the Strong of Poland and Saxony, and it features a variety of exhibits in styles from Baroque to Classicism. The Green Vault is named after the formerly malachite green painted column bases and capitals of the initial rooms. It has some claim to be the oldest museum in the world; it is older than the British Museum, opened in 1759, but the Kunstkamera in St. Petersburg, Russia was opened in 1714 and the Vatican Museums date their foundation to the public display of the newly excavated Laocoön group in 1506.
12. Trinitatiskirche
The Trinitatiskirche was a church building dedicated to the Holy Trinity in the Johannstadt district of Dresden. It was built from 1891 to 1893. The bombing raids of February 1945 completely burned down its aisle, badly damaged the main walls and parish hall, slightly damaged the bell tower and completely destroyed the roof and interior. The debris began to be removed in 1945 and the tower provisionally repaired in 1950. The hall was rebuilt in the mid-1950s and plans in the 1960s to pull down the church ruins were stopped by the parish developing a project to build a room for church services and a conference centre, and so the church's ruins still remain.
13. Procession of Princes
The Fürstenzug in Dresden, Germany, is a large mural of a mounted procession of the rulers of Saxony. It was originally painted between 1871 and 1876 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Wettin Dynasty, Saxony's ruling family. In order to make the work weatherproof, it was replaced with approximately 23,000 Meissen porcelain tiles between 1904 and 1907. With a length of 102 metres (335 ft), it is known as the largest porcelain artwork in the world. The mural displays the ancestral portraits of the 35 margraves, electors, dukes and kings of the House of Wettin between 1127 and 1904.
14. Bahnhof Dresden-Neustadt
Dresden-Neustadt station is the second largest railway station in the German city of Dresden after Dresden Hauptbahnhof and is also a stop for long-distance traffic. It is the junction for rail traffic on the northern side of the Elbe. It was built in 1901, replacing the Leipziger Bahnhof, which was opened in Leipziger Vorstadt in 1839, and the Schlesischen Bahnhof, which was opened in 1847. The station building in the district of Innere Neustadt was built in the monumental style that was typical of the time, underlining its importance as a stop for long-distance services.
15. Pastor-Roller-Kirche
The Pastor Roller Church in Dresden, also known as Lausa Church and Weixdorf Church, is the parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Weixdorf. It is located in the north of Dresden in the district of Lausa, which belongs to the village of Weixdorf. It is named after Samuel David Roller (1779–1850), who was pastor in Lausa from 1811 until his death. In 1816 he confirmed the later portrait and history painter Wilhelm von Kügelgen in the church, who erected a literary monument to Roller in his memoirs of an old man's youth, published posthumously in 1870.
16. Alte Mensa
The Alte Mensa Dresden is a canteen in Dresden, Germany. It is located on the main campus of the Technical University of Dresden in the Dresden district of Räcknitz. The northern main entrance leads to Mommsenstraße and the side entrances to Helmholtzstraße in the west and Dülferstraße in the east. The building, which opened in 1925, is operated by the Studentenwerk Dresden and, according to its own statements, is the oldest canteen in Germany. Immediately adjacent is the former rectorate building at Mommsenstraße 15 as an example of socialist classicism.
17. Blaues Haus
Blaues Haus is the name of the high-rise building Gerhart-Hauptmann-Straße 1 in Dresden-Strehlen, near Lennéplatz. It was built between 1958 and 1960 as an office building for the Institute for Labour Economics and Occupational Safety Research and was later used by its successors, the Central Research Institute for Labour (ZFA) and the Central Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (ZIAS). Today it is a residential building. The building is considered "one of the most innovative buildings in Dresden around 1960" and is a listed building.
18. Panometer Dresden
The Dresden Panometer is an attraction in Dresden, Germany. It is a venue displaying one of two panoramic paintings of Austrian-born artist Yadegar Asisi inside a former gasometer, accompanied by an exhibition. One of the two panoramas, Baroque Dresden depicts Dresden as it might have appeared in 1756, the other, Dresden 1945 shows the city after it was destroyed during World War II. The Panometer was created in 2006 by Asisi, who coined the name as a portmanteau of "panorama" and "gasometer". In 2003 he had opened a Panometer in Leipzig.
19. Cholerabrunnen
The Cholera Fountain is a neo-Gothic fountain. It is located in Dresden on Sophienstraße, between the Zwinger and the Taschenbergpalais. It was financed by Baron Eugen von Gutschmid, who wanted to show his gratitude for the fact that Dresden had been spared from the cholera epidemic (1841/1842) that had broken out on the Oder and Lower Elbe rivers and had also threatened Dresden. In addition to Gottfried Semper as architect, Karl-Moritz Seelig took over the design, which was ceremoniously handed over to the city on 15 July 1846.
20. Güntzwiesen
The Güntzwiesen are a green space and urban open space in Dresden. They are the site of the Dresden Stadium named after Rudolf Harbig, the home of SG Dynamo Dresden. The Güntzwiesen bear their name after Justus Friedrich Güntz, who established a foundation (Güntz Foundation) in 1856, with the funds of which the meadows were later designed, among other things. Since 2016, the northern part of the country has been called Cockerwiese, after this name has been used colloquially since Joe Cocker's big concert on June 2, 1988.
21. Sowjetischer Garnisonfriedhof
The Soviet garrison cemetery in Dresden was founded in May 1945 as a war grave burial of the Red Army. From 1946 to 1987 he was officially used as a site cemetery for soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army, whose family members and military civilian workers, and was extended three times by the city of Dresden. From 1968 onwards, however, the occupation was only sporadic. The Soviet garrison cemetery is a public area under monument protection, see list of monument maintenance items in Dresden #Churches and Cemeteries.
22. Maria am Wasser
Maria am Water is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the Hosterwitz district of Dresden. With its exterior, which is reminiscent of the southern German sacral building of the Baroque, it is completely atypical for the Dresden region. With 1,500 square meters, the churchyard is one of the smallest cemeteries in the city. The Church of Maria am Wasser and the churchyard are listed and were part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site from 2004 to 2009 as part of the Dresden Elbe valley cultural landscape.
23. Gedenkstätte Bautzner Straße Dresden
The Bautzner Straße Dresden memorial is a memorial for the victims of the GDR Ministry for State Security (MfS) in the Saxon state capital of Dresden. It is the only custodial institution of the "Stasi" in the Free State, which is still accessible and accessible to visitors. Both the perspective of previous political investigation prisoners and those of the former secret service employees are discussed in the exhibition. The memorial is borne by the association "Knowledge by memory e.V.".
Wikipedia: Gedenkstätte Bautzner Straße Dresden (DE), Website
24. Neptunbrunnen
The Neptune fountain is the most important baroque fountain in Dresden. It is located in the Friedrichstadt district in the former French garden of the Palais Brühl-Marcolini, today's Friedrichstadt hospital. The fountain was built from 1741 to 1746 by Lorenzo Mattielli according to plans by Zacharias Longuelune. The reliefs "Romulus and Remus" (Rome) and "Pyramids and Sphinx" (Egypt) to the postings of the Neptune fountain created or renew the Dresden sculptor Franz Schwarz around 1890.
25. Hauptmann-Hirsch-Denkmal
The Hauptmann Hirsch Monument is a war memorial in Dresden, Germany. Created in 1823 by sculptor Franz Pettrich, it commemorates the officer Johann Baptista Joseph Hirsch (1770–1822). At the place on the Heller where the captain of the artillery of the Saxon army had suffered a fatal riding accident, the monument was erected exactly one year after his death. It was later relocated several times, damaged and restored in 2019 and is one of the two cultural monuments in Hellerberge.
26. Moritzmonument
The Moritzmonument is a sandstone monument on the outer wall of the Jungfernbastei in Dresden. It is located on the northeast corner of the Dresden fortifications or at the east end of the Brühlsche Terrasse, corner of the Terrassenfer/Hasenberg (Augustusallee). The monument has a height of 6 meters and a width of 3 meters. It was created in 1555 by Hans Walther. The Moritz Monument is the oldest preserved monument in Dresden and was the first monument to be set to a bettiner.
27. George gate
The Georgentor or the Georgenbau is the original city exit from Dresden to the Elbbrücke. It is located in the inner old town on Schloßplatz between the Residenzschloss and the Stallhof. This first Renaissance building in Dresden was arranged by Georg the bearded, who had the former city gate converted into the Georgentor to the only Dresden Elbbrücke from 1530 to 1535. The building today captivates with its representative facade in the monumental neo -neaning style.
28. Sternwarte
Two observations that were assigned to the former research institute Manfred von Ardenne are referred to as the observatory of the former research institute Manfred von Ardenne. The older of the two is located in the Weißer Hirsch district of Dresden (Plattleite 27) and has been open again since 2007. The younger of the two is located near the private house of the von Ardenne family in the Oberloschwitz district (Zeppelinstraße 7) and is not open to the public.
Wikipedia: Forschungsinstitut Manfred von Ardenne – Sternwarte (DE)
29. Carte Blanche (Travestie)
The Travestie-Revue-Theater Carte Blanche is a travesty theatre in the Äußere Neustadt district of Dresden, Germany. The renowned ensemble, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2009 as part of the Dresden Film Nights, gained nationwide fame through the television program Das Sat.1-Magazin, which was broadcast in the evening program, when reporters accompanied the theater director Zora Schwarz for a week and took a look behind the scenes of the theater.
30. Palais Brühl-Marcolini
The Palais Brühl-Marcolini is a garden palace built from 1727 in the suburb of Ostra, which was created near Dresden from 1670 in the Friedrichstadt district. Today the Dresden-Friedrichstadt hospital is housed in the palace and in later buildings and new buildings on its property. The Palais Brühl-Marcolini cannot be confused with Marcolini's hunting lodge in the Waldschlösschenschenviertel and the former Palais Brühl on the Brühl terrace.
31. Südpark
The Südpark is a planned park in the Plauen and Räcknitz districts of Dresden, which started in 2019. The planning area of about 36.5 hectares is limited by the southern construction along Nöthnitzer Straße, Bergstraße, Kohlenstraße, Cämmerswalder Straße, Westendring and Plauenscher Ring and Passauer Straße. The area is characterized by a strong difference in altitude of about 40 meters between Kohlenstraße and Nöthnitzer Straße.
32. Kirche zu Dresden-Loschwitz
The Loschwitz church is a baroque church in the Loschwitz district of Dresden. It was the first church building of the architect of the Dresden Frauenkirche, George Bähr. The churchyard, which was used as a burial site until 1907, is one of Saxony, which is newly created in the 18th century, which are still preserved, and with around 400 square meters of the smallest cemetery in the city. The Loschwitz church and the churchyard are listed.
33. Hohenplauensches Wasserhaus (Fundamentreste)
The Hochplauens Wasserhaus was a building in Plauen b. Dresden for the purpose of mounting and cleaning the water from the Mühlgraben der Bienertmühle for forwarding by means of wooden tubes (pipes) as so-called tube water to the city of Dresden. In addition to the highly plausible tube water, there was also the medium- and low-plausible tube water, which was taken from the White Root Mill trench and passed on to the former Walk Mill.
34. Pillnitzer Kamelie
The Pillnitz camelie is one of the oldest camellias in Europe. At least 246 years old, she has reached a height of around 8.90 meters and a diameter of almost 11 meters. Up to 35,000 flowers appear during their flowering period, which lasted from February to April. These are of criminal red color, unfilled and without fragrance. The plant is located in the park of Pillnitz Castle and is protected from frosts by a mobile greenhouse.
35. Staatliche Schlösser, Burgen und Gärten Sachsen
The State Palaces, Castles and Gardens of Saxony is a state-owned company with its head office in Dresden. It belongs to the Saxon State Ministry of Finance and has the aim of preserving Saxon cultural heritage whilst respecting cultural and conservation needs. The state-owned company manages several palaces, castles and parks in the Saxony. These include the Zwinger in Dresden, the Albrechtsburg in Meissen and Kriebstein Castle.
Wikipedia: State Palaces, Castles and Gardens of Saxony (EN), Website
36. Marienbrücke
In Dresden, the Marienbrücke is the name given to two bridges over the Elbe between Wilsdruffer Vorstadt and the Innere Neustadt. The 434 m long stone arch bridge at Elbe kilometre 56.5 has been in existence since 1852 and, as an initially combined road and railway bridge, was the second fixed Elbe crossing in Dresden after the old Augustus Bridge from the 1730s. The Marienbrücke is the oldest bridge over the Elbe in the city.
37. Galerie Neue Meister
The Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden, Germany, displays around 300 paintings from the 19th century until today, including works from Otto Dix, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet. The gallery also exhibits a number of sculptures from the Dresden Sculpture Collection from the same period. The museum's collection grew out of the Old Masters Gallery, for which contemporary works were increasingly purchased after 1843.
38. Lingnerschloss (Villa Stockhausen)
The Lingner Castle, actually Villa Stockhausen, is the geographically middle of the three Elbe castles in Dresden. Located in the centre of the former World Heritage Site of Dresden's Elbe Valley (2004–2009), its terrace offers an impressive view of a large part of the area and was chosen as the seat of the World Heritage Centre. The name "Lingnerschloss" is more common today than the original name "Villa Stockhausen".
39. Beyer-Bau
The Beyer-Bau of the Technical University of Dresden was built from 1910 to 1913 for the civil engineering department of the TH Dresden by Martin Dülfer. The listed building group still houses the Faculty of Civil Engineering, the Institute for Applied Photophysics of the Specialist Physics and the professorship for astronomy of the field of geosciences. The 40 meter high observatory storm is striking in the cityscape.
40. NaturKulturBad Zschonergrund
The Zschonergrund, also Zschoner Grund or Zschone for short, is a landscape protection area (D35) in the west of Dresden, which is flowed through by the Zschonerbach. The valley begins in the Zöllmen district of Dresden, crosses Ockerwitz and Briesnitz and ends in Kemnitz, where the stream flows into the Elbe near the A 4 motorway bridge. With its meadow and forest landscape, the valley is a popular recreation area.
41. Erich-Kästner-Museum
The Erich Kästner Museum is a literary museum in Dresden, Germany. The museum covers the life and writings of German children's author Erich Kästner and is based in the Villa Augustin building which had belonged to Kästner's uncle. The museum is notable for its architecture, which was designed to be semi-mobile and fit within a single room, close to where Kästner had grown up in Dresden's inner new town.
42. Rondell
The Municipal Heath Cemetery in Dresden is a municipal forest cemetery on the northern outskirts of the city with several memorials and groves of honor. Until 2015, the official wreath-laying ceremony for the victims of the bombing raids from 13 to 15 February 1945 took place every year at the Heidefriedhof. After the Soviet Garrison Cemetery established in 1945, it is the youngest cemetery in Dresden.
43. St. Hubertus
St. Hubertus is a Roman Catholic monument-protected church building in the district of Dresden, which was built in 1936–1937 in the direction of the architect Robert Witte in Dresden. In addition to the community house of the Christuskirche and the Hoffnungskirche, it belongs to the few sacred buildings built in Dresden between 1933 and 1945, and is an example of “home-bound architecture”.
44. 8. Oktober 1989
The group of 20 was a group of about twenty citizens who were appointed and commissioned by the demonstrators during the peaceful revolution in the GDR on October 8, 1989 in Dresden to negotiate with the local authorities the following day about their political demands . In downtown Dresden, not far from the main train station, an inscription embedded in the ground is reminiscent of the group.
45. Der Weg der Roten Fahne
The Kulturpalast Dresden is a modernist GDR building designed by architect Wolfgang Hänsch. It was opened in 1969 and had the largest multi-purpose hall in the city of Dresden, which was used for concerts, dance and entertainment events as well as conferences and congresses. After several years of renovation including the installation of a new concert hall, it was reopened in April 2017.
46. Wallburg Schlossberg
The artificial ruin at Pillnitz, also known as Gothic ruins, is located on a hill above the Friedrichsgrund north of the Dresden district of Pillnitz. It was built in 1785 in the style of neogotics on the site of a former, lost medieval defense. As a symbol of the transience of all created, it serves as a conscious addition to the Baroque Castle Pillnitz, located about 500 meters south.
47. Leonhardi-Museum
The Leonhardi Museum is located in the former Hentschel mill in Dresden's Loschwitz district. The museum is named after the museum's founder, the late Romantic landscape painter Eduard Leonhardi (1828–1905). Since 1991, the "Leo" has been a gallery of the state capital Dresden and shows changing exhibitions of contemporary art as well as a small presentation of Leonhardi's paintings.
48. Trümmerfrau
Trümmerfrau is the German-language name for women who, in the aftermath of World War II, helped clear and reconstruct the bombed cities of Germany and Austria. Hundreds of cities had suffered significant bombing and firestorm damage through aerial attacks and ground war, so with many men dead or prisoners of war, this monumental task fell to a large degree on women.
49. Herz-Jesu-Kirche
The Catholic Herz-Jesu Church in Dresden was designed by the architect August Menken and inaugurated in 1905. The neo -Gothic church is consecrated to the holiest heart of Jesus as a patronage. It stands on the property of Borsbergstraße 15 in the Striesen district of Dresden on the border with Johannstadt and is the second largest church in the Dresden Deanery.
50. Wolfshügelturm
The wolf hills was a lookout tower on the 211 m high wolf hill on the eastern edge of the Albertpark in the Dresden Heide. The 25 meter high reinforced concrete tower was once created by the city building council Hans Erlwein. A citizens' initiative from Dresden wants to build a tower again. Whether in historical or modern form, has not yet been decided.
51. Neue Mensa
The New Mensa in the Räcknitz district of Dresden is a canteen building for the Technical University of Dresden, operated by the Studentenwerk Dresden. After the renovation of the “Alte Mensa” in 2007, the name Mensa Bergstraße was also run; every day up to 4,500 food portions were issued in five dining rooms. The Mensa had 60 employees in total.
52. Schloss Albrechtsberg
Albrechtsberg Palace or Albrechtsberg Castle is a Neoclassical stately home above the Elbe river in the Loschwitz district of Dresden. It was erected in 1854 according to plans designed by the Prussian court and landscaping architect Adolf Lohse (1807–1867) at the behest of Prince Albert, younger brother of the Prussian king Frederick William IV.
53. Botanischer Garten
The Botanischer Garten der Technischen Universität Dresden, also known as the Botanischer Garten Dresden or Dresden Botanical Garden, is a botanical garden maintained by the Dresden University of Technology. It is located in the north-west section of the Großer Garten at Stübelallee 2, Dresden, Saxony, Germany. It is open daily without charge.
54. Straßenbahnmuseum Dresden e.V.
The Dresden Tram Museum is a collection of museum trams that were in the urban area of Dresden in the former city. Most of the time they are former vehicles of the tram Dresden. This Museum of Transport is supported by the association “Tram Museum Dresden e. V.”, whose members restored and supervised the more than 30 cars of the collection.
55. Alaunplatz
The Alaunplatz is a place in the Outer Neustadt district of Dresden. It is located between Kamenzer Straße and Tannenstraße and Bischofsweg. The Alaunplatz is connected to Albertplatz via the eponymous Alaunstraße and limits the pub district of the outer Neustadt in the north. Line 13 of the Dresden tram has a “Alaunplatz” stop there.
56. Alte Schule
The old school stands in the Kaditz district of the Saxon state capital Dresden, in Altkaditz 32 opposite the Emmauskirche lying on the other side of the street. It was completely renewed in 1854 by the master builder Christian Gottlieb Ziller from the neighboring Serkowitz together with the mason master Götze from Niederlößnitz.
57. Kraszewski-Museum
The Kraszewski Museum is a literary museum in Dresden in the municipal network of the museums of the city of Dresden, which is dedicated to the Polish writer, painter, historian and composer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887). It was set up in the building in 1960, which he lived in part of his over 20 years of Dresden exile.
58. St.-Barbara-Kirche
St. Barbara's Evangelical Lutheran Church is located in Eschdorf, a district of the village of Schönfeld-Weißig in Dresden, the capital of Saxony. The church and its furnishings, the cemetery with cemetery wall, the rectory and other associated buildings are listed buildings. The church is dedicated to St. Barbara of Nicomedia.
59. Sphinx
Belvedere is the name given to four pleasure palaces that stood one after the other on the northeast corner of Brühl's Terrace in Dresden. The fourth and last Belvedere was built in 1842 on the basis of the first Semper Opera House, fell victim to the war in 1945, and a reconstruction was offered by a citizen in 2008 and 2016.
60. Schloss Pillnitz
Pillnitz Palace is a restored Baroque schloss at the eastern end of the city of Dresden in the German state of Saxony. It is located on the right bank of the River Elbe in the former village of Pillnitz. It was the summer residence of many electors and kings of Saxony; it is also known for the Declaration of Pillnitz in 1791.
61. Kreisgrabenanlage Dresden-Nickern
The district trench plant Dresden-Nickern is an early complex of at least four independent district trench facilities in the district of Dresden in the area around the Gebergrund. The facilities are located on several excavation areas, which were designed to explore the route before the construction of a federal motorway 17.
62. Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden
The Dresden Museum of Ethnology contains an ethnographic collection with more than 90,000 artefacts from all parts of the earth. It is part of the Dresden State Art Collections. Founded in 1875, the museum presents continually changing exhibitions in the Japanisches Palais, a Baroque building complex in Dresden, Germany.
63. Goldener Reiter
The Golden Horseman is an equestrian statue of the Saxon Elector and Polish King Augustus the Strong, which stands on the Neustädter Markt in Dresden between the Augustus Bridge and the main street. It is considered the most famous monument in Dresden and is one of the most important sculptures of the Dresden Baroque.
64. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, Germany, displays around 750 paintings from the 15th to the 18th centuries. It includes major Italian Renaissance works as well as Dutch and Flemish paintings. Outstanding works by German, French, and Spanish painters of the period are also among the gallery's attractions.
65. Matthäus-Kirche
St. Matthew's Church is an Evangelical Lutheran parish church in the Friedrichstadt district of Dresden, Germany. The baroque church, built in the 18th century, was badly damaged in 1945 and rebuilt in the post-war period. It is registered as an architectural monument in the list of monuments of the city of Dresden.
66. Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage
The community center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Dresden is located at Tiergartenstraße 42. The building was built in 1988 as the second community centre of this religious community in the GDR and is one of the few examples of historicizing postmodernism in GDR architecture of the 1980s.
Wikipedia: Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage (Dresden) (DE)
67. Alter Jüdischer Friedhof
The Old Jewish Cemetery in Dresden is the oldest preserved Jewish cemetery in Saxony. It is located north of Bautzner Straße on Pulsnitzer Straße in der Neustadt, near the Martin Luther Church and is one of the smallest cemeteries in Dresden with 3500 square meters. It is protected as a cultural monument.
68. Impfstelle Landeshauptstadt Dresden
The Tudor-Villa is a building with the address of Bautzner Straße 125 in the Prussian district in Dresden, which received its facade design based on Prussia or Bohemia. The castle -like villa was built in 1856 for circus director Ernst Renz (1815–1892), the architect was Theodor Lehnert (1828–1910).
69. Herbert Wehner Denkmal
Herbert Richard Wehner was a German politician. A former member of the Communist Party, he joined the Social Democrats (SPD) after World War II. He served as Federal Minister of Intra-German Relations from 1966 to 1969 and thereafter as chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag until 1983.
70. Dinglingerbrunnen
The Dinglinger Fountain is a listed baroque fountain in Dresden, Germany. It is considered to be the oldest surviving court fountain in the Saxon state capital. It is named after the court jeweller and goldsmith of Augustus the Strong, Johann Melchior Dinglinger, who had it made for him.
71. Garnisonkirche St. Martin
The Garrison Church of St. Martin in Dresden was the garrison church of Albertstadt, which was built as a military town for large parts of the Saxon army. The double church was built in the second phase of construction between 1893 and 1900 in a central location of the barracks complex.
72. St.-Petri-Kirche
Die St.-Petri-Kirche ist eine neugotische Kirche im Dresdner Stadtteil Leipziger Vorstadt. Sie steht auf dem Großenhainer Platz an der Großenhainer Straße und wird von der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Dreieinigkeitsgemeinde der Selbständigen Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche genutzt.
73. Weinbergkirche „Zum Heiligen Geist“
The Protestant Vineyard Church "Zum Heiligen Geist" is a baroque village church in the Dresden district of Pillnitz, named after its location in the Royal Vineyard. It is not to be confused with the Vineyard Church built in the 20th century in the Trachenberge district of Dresden.
Wikipedia: Vineyard Church (Dresden) (EN), Website, Heritage Website
74. Schillerhäuschen
The Schillerhäuschen is a literary museum in Dresden, which is dedicated to the important German poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller. It was set up in a small building in which Schiller is said to have stayed and belongs to the network of the museums of the city of Dresden.
75. Freilichtbühne Junge Garde
The large garden open -air stage is an event location in the southeast of the large garden in Dresden. It was created from 1953 to 1955 as an open -air theater "Junge Garde" on the site of a former gravel pit and opened on August 12, 1955. It offers space for 4,900 spectators.
76. Blockhaus
The Neustädter Wache on the west side of the Neustädter Brückenkopf of the Augustus Bridge is referred to as a log house in Dresden. The free -standing building is located on the Neustädter Markt, a few meters from the Golden Rider. The architect was Zacharias Longuelune.
77. Martin Andersen Nexø
Martin Andersen Nexø was a Danish writer. He was one of the authors in the Modern Breakthrough movement in Danish art and literature. He was a socialist throughout his life and during the Second World War moved to the Soviet Union, and afterwards to Dresden in East Germany.
78. Schlosskirche Lockwitz
The Schlosskirche Lockwitz is a late Gothic, listed sacred building in the Dresden district of Lockwitz. It is the only Evangelical Lutheran church in Dresden that is structurally connected to a castle. The castle church is the main church of the parish of the same name.
79. Fetscherstein
Rainer Fetscher was a German doctor, inheritance researcher and eugenicist. He is the father of political scientist Iring Fetscher. In Dresden, Fetscher had and has the reputation of a humanist and anti -fascist, which, among other things, in numerous posthumous honors.
80. Fichteturm
The fighter tower is a lookout tower in Dresden-Plauen. The 30 -meter -high, crenellated Rundturm on a cubic base was originally built in 1896 as a Bismarck Tower. It is the oldest Bismarck Tower in Saxony and is located in the spruce park near the Kotteweg tram stop.
81. Kleines Haus
The Staatsschauspiel Dresden is a theatre in Dresden, which is operated by the Free State of Saxony. It operates the Schauspielhaus and the Kleine Haus. The Staatsschauspiel was born in 1983 from the Staatstheater Dresden, which was founded in the Royal Court Theater.
82. Leipziger Bahnhof
The Leipzig train station was the first train station in the Saxon state capital of Dresden. It was not far from today's Dresden-Neustadt station in the Leipzig suburb and was the end of the first German long-distance railway Leipzig-Dresden inaugurated in 1839.
83. Weinbergskirche
The Vineyard Church is a sacred building in the Saxon capital of Dresden, built in the 20th century. It is a town in the Trachenberge district of Laurentius, Germany. It is not to be confused with the baroque vineyard church in the Pillnitz district of Dresden.
84. DenkRaum Sophienkirche
The Busmannkapelle Memorial is a building on Sophie Street in Dresden. It is a reconstruction of the Busmannkapelle and has been under construction since 2009, though planning began in 1995. It is a memorial to the Sophienkirche, lost in the bombing in 1945.
85. Bürgerwiese
The approximately ten hectare civil meadow is a landscape garden in Dresden. The dimensions of the citizens' meadow located southeast of the old town center are 850 meters in length and 80 to 100 meters in width. It is the oldest green area in Dresden.
86. Ökumenisches Seelsorgezentrum - Haus 50
The Johannstadt Hospital Church, also known as the Johannstadt Hospital Chapel, was the church of the Johannstadt City Hospital in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. The church was badly damaged during the air raids on Dresden in 1945 and demolished in 1950.
Wikipedia: Anstaltskirche Krankenhaus Johannstadt (Dresden) (DE)
87. Castle Eckberg
Schloss Eckberg is one of the three Elbe castles and is located on the right slope of the Elbe in Dresden, about 3 kilometers upstream from the city center. To the west of Eckberg Castle is the Lingner Castle, and next to it is Albrechtsberg Castle.
88. Russian Orthodox Church
The St. Simeon of the Wonderful Mountain Church is a Russian Orthodox church in the German city of Dresden. It was designed by Harald Julius von Bosse and Karl Weißbach and built from 1872 to 1874. It is dedicated to Simeon Stylites the Younger.
Wikipedia: St. Simeon of the Wonderful Mountain Church (EN), Website, Flickr
89. Palais im Großen Garten
The Palais im Großer Garten, also known as the Summer Palace or Garden Palace, is a baroque pleasure palace in Dresden, Germany, built from 1679 onwards. It is located in the Great Garden, a vast green space on the outskirts of the city centre.
90. Hungersteine
A hunger stone is a type of hydrological landmark common in Central Europe. Hunger stones serve as famine memorials and warnings and were erected in Germany and in ethnic German settlements throughout Europe in the 15th through 19th centuries.
91. Gedenktafel zum XI. Parteitag der SED
According to its statute, the party congress of the SED was the highest party body of the socialist unit party in Germany. The Central Committee of the SED was determined at the party congress. The party conferences took place in East Berlin.
92. Brühlscher Garten
Today, only the eastern part of Brühl's Terrace in Dresden on the Jungfernbastei, the site of the former Belvederes (I - IV), is called Brühl's Garden, but originally the entire garden on Brühl's Terrace. He was one of Brühl's glories.
93. Fernmeldemuseum Dresden
The Telecommunications Museum Dresden is a Technikmuseum operated by the Interessengemeinschaft Historische Fernmeldetechnik e.V. in Dresden, focusing on telephony and telegraphy. It is located in the Telekom building on Dresden Postplatz.
94. Neustädter Markthalle
The Neustädter Markthalle in Dresden is a market hall opened for the first time on 7 October 1899 on Metzer Straße, corner Hauptstraße in der Neustadt. After a large renovation, the listed hall was reopened as a shopping mall in 2000.
95. Schillerdenkmal
The Dresden Schillerdenkmal is southwest of Albertplatz, between the beginning of the main street and that of the Königstrasse in the inner Neustadt district. It is a work by Selmar Werner, the architecture comes from Oswin Hempel.
96. Goldener Rathausmann
The Golden Town Hall Man is a sculpture on the tower of the New Town Hall in Dresden. It symbolizes Hercules, who pours out his cornucopia with one hand and points to the beauties of the city at his feet with his raised hand.
97. Dreikönigskirche
The Dreikönigskirche is a Lutheran church located in the Innere Neustadt of Dresden, Germany. It is the centre of a parish, and a community venue called Haus der Kirche. The church is a listed cultural monument of Dresden.
98. Markuskirche
St. Mark's Church is a Protestant church in the Pieschen district of Dresden, Germany. It is located on St. Mark's Square between Bürgerstraße, Torgauer and Osterbergstraße. The church is named after the evangelist Mark.
99. Neuer Jüdischer Friedhof
The new Jewish cemetery is the second Jewish cemetery in Dresden and is located next to the Trinitatis cemetery on Fiedlerstraße, corner of Fetscherstrasse. There are around 2,600 graves on an area of 13900 square meters.
100. Heimkehrerstein
The Heimkehrerstein is a commemorative stone in Radebeul by three veterans of the German-French War 1870/71. It is located in the Seewiesen on the entrance to Alt-Radebeul, coming from Dresden-Kaditz, on Kaditzer Straße.
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