Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #11 in Dresden, Germany
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9.6 km
123 m
Explore Dresden in Germany with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in DresdenIndividual Sights in DresdenSight 1: Sowjetischer Garnisonfriedhof
The Soviet garrison cemetery in Dresden was built from May 1945 as a war grave stall of the Red Army. From 1946 to 1987 he was officially used as a cemetery for the soldiers and officers of the Soviet army, their family members and for the military in the military, and was expanded three times during this time. From 1968, however, the occupancy was only sporadically. The Soviet garrison cemetery is a monument protection as an overall nature, see list of the monument preservation total in Dresden #kirchen and cemeteries.
Sight 2: 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.
Sight 3: Denkmal der 1. Gardepanzerarmee
The 1st Guards Tank Army is a tank army of the Russian Ground Forces. в/ч 73621.
Sight 4: 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
Sight 5: 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.
Sight 6: Denkmal der Roten Armee
The Soviet War Memorial in Dresden is a monument created in 1945 to the soldiers of the Red Army who died in World War II. Today it is located in Dresden's Albertstadt district and is a listed building.
Sight 7: Arbeitsgericht, Sozialgericht, Verwaltungsgericht Dresden
The Social Court of Dresden is a court of social jurisdiction in the Free State of Saxony.
Sight 8: Alaunplatz
Alaunplatz is a square in the Äußere Neustadt district of Dresden, Germany. It is located between Kamenzer Straße and Tannenstraße as well as Bischofsweg. Alaunplatz is connected to Albertplatz via the eponymous Alaunstraße and borders the pub district of the Outer Neustadt in the north. Line 13 of the Dresden tram has a stop "Alaunplatz" there.
Sight 9: St. Pauli
The St. Pauli Theatre Ruins is the ruin of the Evangelical Lutheran St. Pauli Church in Dresden's Hechtviertel residential area, which is used as a summer theatre and place of worship.
Sight 10: Fanny Urbach
The list of stumbling blocks in Dresden contains all the stumbling blocks that were laid as part of the Gunter Demnig art project of the same name in Dresden.
Sight 11: Vorbereitungszentrum Turnerweg (01097)
The former main post office Dresden 6 is a post office building at Königsbrücker Straße 21 in Dresden, Germany. It is an example of Dresden Modernism of the 1960s.
Sight 12: 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.
Sight 13: St.-Petri-Kirche
St. Peter's Church is a neo-Gothic church in the Leipziger Vorstadt district of Dresden, Germany. It is located on Großenhainer Platz on Großenhainer Straße and is used by the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Congregation of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Sight 14: Leipziger Bahnhof
Leipziger Bahnhof was the first railway station in Dresden, the capital of Saxony. It was located not far from today's Dresden-Neustadt station in the suburbs of Leipzig and was the terminus of the first German long-distance railway Leipzig–Dresden, which was inaugurated in 1839.
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