Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Dresden, Germany

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 8.4 km
Ascend 101 m
Descend 97 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 Dresden

Sight 1: Festtagstür der Jakobikirche

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Festtagstür der Jakobikirche

The Jakobikirche was a High Rhenish Neo-Romanesque church built in Dresden between 1898 and 1901 to plans by Jürgen Kröger. It was destroyed by bombing in the Second World War and its ruins were demolished in 1953.

Wikipedia: Jakobikirche, Dresden (EN)

892 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 2: Schulmuseum

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The Dresden School Museum is a school museum in the Saxon state capital.

Wikipedia: Schulmuseum Dresden (DE), Website

379 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: Neptunbrunnen

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Neptunbrunnen Kay Körner from Dresden Seevorstadt in Saxony / CC BY-SA 2.5

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 between 1741 and 1746 by Lorenzo Mattielli according to plans by Zacharias Longuelune. The reliefs "Romulus and Remus" (Rome) and "Pyramids and Sphinx" (Egypt) on the pedestals of the Neptune Fountain were created or renewed by the Dresden sculptor Franz Schwarz around 1890.

Wikipedia: Neptunbrunnen (Dresden) (DE)

262 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Anton dem Guitigen

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Anton dem Guitigen

The King Anton Monument is a monument to King Anton (1755–1836) of Saxony in the form of a larger-than-life portrait bust on a granite pedestal that stands on Hohenthalplatz in Dresden's Friedrichstadt district.

Wikipedia: König-Anton-Denkmal (DE)

394 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Matthäus-Kirche

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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.

Wikipedia: Matthäuskirche (Dresden) (DE)

240 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Hochreliefbrunnen

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The list of fountains and fountains in Dresden gives an overview of the most important public fountains and water features in the city. There are about 300 fountains and water features in Dresden, part of which belongs to the city of Dresden and is supervised by the Parks Department.

Wikipedia: Liste der Brunnen und Wasserspiele in Dresden (DE)

65 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Palais Brühl-Marcolini

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Palais Brühl-Marcolini Kay Körner from Dresden Seevorstadt in Saxony / CC BY-SA 2.5

The Palais Brühl-Marcolini is a garden palace built in 1727 in the suburb of Ostra near Dresden in today's Friedrichstadt district. Today, the palace and later extensions and new buildings on its property house the Dresden-Friedrichstadt hospital. The Palais Brühl-Marcolini is not to be confused with Marcolini's hunting lodge in the Waldschlösschenviertel and the former Palais Brühl on Brühl's Terrace.

Wikipedia: Palais Brühl-Marcolini (DE)

1581 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 8: Marienbrücke

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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.

Wikipedia: Marienbrücke (Dresden) (DE)

1152 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 9: Augustusbrücke

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The Augustus Bridge is a bridge in the city of Dresden, in the state Saxony in Germany.

Wikipedia: Augustus Bridge (EN)

485 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 10: Museum of Saxon Folk Art with Puppet Theater Collection

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The Museum of Saxon Folk Art is a museum in the state capital of Dresden, Saxony. The collection is located in Jägerhof in the Inneren Neustadt.

Wikipedia: Museum für Sächsische Volkskunst (DE), Website

12 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 11: Jägerhof

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The Jägerhof is a building in Dresden and the oldest monument in Dresden's Neustadt district. It is located east of the Neustädter Markt on Köpckestraße.

Wikipedia: Jägerhof (Dresden) (DE)

504 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 12: Neustädter Markthalle

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The Neustädter Markthalle in Dresden is a market hall first opened on 7 October 1899 on Metzer Straße, corner of Hauptstraße in Neustadt. After a major renovation, the listed hall was reopened as a shopping centre in 2000.

Wikipedia: Neustädter Markthalle (DE), Website

335 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Alfred Steinhart

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Alfred Steinhart Dr. Bernd Gross / Copyrighted free use

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)

199 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Kleines Haus

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Kleines Haus Michael Kranewitter / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Dresden State Theater is a theater in Dresden that maintains the Free State of Saxony. It runs the Schauspielhaus and the small house. The state actor emerged in 1983 from the Dresden State Theater, which had its origin in the Royal Court Theater.

Wikipedia: Kleines Haus (Dresden) (DE), Website

533 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 15: Schillerdenkmal

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The Dresden Schiller Monument is located southwest of Albertplatz, between the beginning of Hauptstraße and Königstraße in the Innere Neustadt district. It is the work of Selmar Werner, the architecture is by Oswin Hempel.

Wikipedia: Schillerdenkmal (Dresden) (DE)

213 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Dreikönigskirche

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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.

Wikipedia: Dreikönigskirche, Dresden (EN)

436 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 17: Goldener Reiter

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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.

Wikipedia: Goldener Reiter (Reiterstandbild) (DE)

197 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 18: Blockhaus

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In Dresden, a blockhouse is the name given to the Neustadt Guard on the west side of the Neustadt bridgehead of the Augustus Bridge. The free-standing building is located on the Neustädter Markt, a few metres from the Golden Horseman. The architect was Zacharias Longuelune.

Wikipedia: Blockhaus (Dresden) (DE)

569 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 19: Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden

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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.

Wikipedia: Dresden Museum of Ethnology (EN), Website

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