Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #13 in Dresden, Germany

The Hochplauensche Wasserhaus was a building in Plauen near Dresden for the collection and purification of water from the mill ditch of the Bienertmühle for transmission by means of wooden pipes (pipes) as so-called tube water to the city of Dresden. In addition to the Hochplauen Röhr water, there was also the Middle and Niederplauen Röhr water, which was taken from the Weißeritzmühlgraben at the former fulling mill and forwarded.

Wikipedia: Hochplauensches Wasserhaus (DE)

The Museum Hofmühle Dresden is a mill technology and local museum in the Saxon state capital.

Wikipedia: Museum Hofmühle Dresden (DE), Website

The Hoher Stein is a rock with an observation tower above the Plauensche Grund in the Plauen district of Dresden. Because of its geological features, the Hohe Stein is a natural monument under state protection.

Wikipedia: Hoher Stein (Dresden) (DE)

The Fichteturm is an observation tower in Dresden-Plauen, Germany. The 30-metre-high, crenellated round tower on a cubic base was originally built in 1896 as the Bismarck Tower. It is the oldest Bismarck Tower in Saxony and is located in Fichtepark near the Kotteweg tram stop.

Wikipedia: Fichteturm (DE)

The Südpark is a planned park in the Dresden districts of Plauen and Räcknitz, which has been in construction since 2019. The planning area of about 36.5 hectares is bordered by the southern buildings along Nöthnitzer Straße, Bergstraße, Kohlenstraße, Cämmerswalder Straße, Westendring and Plauenschen Ring as well as Passauer Straße. The area is characterized by a strong difference in altitude of about 40 meters between Kohlenstraße and Nöthnitzer Straße.

Wikipedia: Südpark (Dresden) (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in Dresden (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Zionskirche, Dresden (EN), Website

The Nürnberger Ei is located in Dresden's Südvorstadt and is an oval extension, embedded in Nürnberger Straße.

Wikipedia: Nürnberger Ei (Dresden) (DE)

The Beyer Building of the Technical University of Dresden was built from 1910 to 1913 for the Department of Civil Engineering of the TH Dresden by Martin Dülfer. The listed group of buildings still houses the Faculty of Civil Engineering, the Institute of Applied Photophysics of the Department of Physics and the Chair of Astronomy of the Department of Geosciences. A striking feature of the cityscape is the 40-metre-high observatory tower.

Wikipedia: Beyer-Bau (DE), Website Map

The Neue Mensa in the Dresden district of Räcknitz is a canteen building for the Technical University of Dresden, it is operated by the Studentenwerk Dresden. The building is located at Bergstraße 51. After the renovation of the "Alte Mensa" in 2007, the name Mensa Bergstraße was also used; Up to 4,500 portions of food were served daily in five dining rooms. The cafeteria had a total of 60 employees.

Wikipedia: Neue Mensa Dresden (DE)

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.

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The Lukaskirche is a church in southern Dresden, Germany.

Wikipedia: Lukaskirche, Dresden (EN), Website

The Ernst Thälmann Memorial in Dresden is located at Strehlener Platz in the Strehlen district.

Wikipedia: Ernst-Thälmann-Gedenkstätte (Dresden) (DE)

Blue House is the name of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Straße 1 high-rise building in Dresden-Strehlen, near Lennéplatz. It was built in 1958–1960 as an office building for the Institute for Working Economics and Occupational Safety Research and later used by its successor, the Central Research Institute for Labor (ZFA) and the Central Institute for Occupational Safety (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.

Wikipedia: Blaues Haus (Dresden) (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Bürgerwiese (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Güntzwiesen (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Dresden Botanical Garden (EN), Website

The Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Dresden was designed by the architect August Menken and consecrated in 1905. The neo-Gothic church is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as a patronage. It stands on the site of Borsbergstraße 15 in the Dresden district of Striesen on the border with Johannstadt and is the second largest church in the deanery of Dresden.

Wikipedia: Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Dresden) (DE), Website