Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #15 in Dresden, Germany

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.

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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.

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The group of 20 was a group of about twenty citizens who were appointed and commissioned by the demonstrators in Dresden during the so -called peaceful revolution in the GDR on October 8, 1989 to negotiate their political demands with the local authorities the following day. In downtown Dresden, not far from the main train station, an inscription embedded in the ground is reminiscent of the group.

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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.

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Dresden Zoo, or Zoo Dresden, is a zoo in the city of Dresden, Germany. It was opened in 1861, making it Germany's fourth oldest zoo. It was originally designed by Peter Joseph Lenné.

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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.

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The teaching building at Blochmannstraße 2 is located in the Pirnaische Vorstadt in Dresden. The building in Blochmannstraße was built in 1911/1912 according to plans by the city building councillor Hans Erlwein as a new educational house for the extension of the Ehrlichsche Gestift. After its partial destruction in the air raids in the final phase of the Second World War, a reconstruction in the style of socialist classicism of "peculiar, sober beauty" took place in 1950/1951 with the inclusion of existing buildings in "the traditional Dresden building method". Sandstone rustica and vertical structuring by pilaster strips on the upper floors are hallmarks of the building.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The New Jewish Cemetery is the second Jewish cemetery in Dresden and is located next to the Trinitatis Cemetery on Fiedlerstraße, at the corner of Fetscherstraße. On an area of 13900 square meters there are about 2600 grave sites.

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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.

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