Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Dresden, Germany
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8.8 km
106 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: Gedenkstätte Bautzner Straße Dresden
The Bautzner Straße Dresden Memorial is a memorial to the victims of the GDR Ministry for State Security (MfS) in Dresden, Saxony, the capital of Saxony. It is the only pre-trial detention centre of the "Stasi" in the Free State that has been preserved in its original form and is open to visitors. Both the perspectives of former political pre-trial detainees and those of former secret service employees are addressed in the exhibition. The memorial is supported by the association "Knowledge through Remembrance e.V.".
Wikipedia: Gedenkstätte Bautzner Straße Dresden (DE), Website
Sight 2: Impfstelle Landeshauptstadt Dresden
The Tudor Villa is a building at Bautzner Strasse 125 in the Prussian Quarter in Dresden, which received its façade design in the style of Tudor Gothic that came from Prussia or Bohemia. The castle-like villa was built in 1856 for the circus director Ernst Renz (1815–1892), the architect was Theodor Lehnert (1828–1910).
Sight 3: 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.
Sight 4: 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 5: Kunsthofpassage
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.
Sight 6: 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.
Sight 7: Alter Jüdischer Friedhof
The Old Jewish Cemetery in Dresden is the oldest surviving Jewish cemetery in Saxony. It is located north of Bautzner Strasse on Pulsnitzer Strasse in Neustadt, near the Martin Luther Church, and is one of the smallest cemeteries in Dresden at 3500 square meters. It is protected as a cultural monument.
Sight 8: Pfunds Molkerei
The Dresdner Molkerei Gebrüder Pfund is a landmark in Dresden and is located in the Outer Neustadt. The milk shop is best known for its original hand-painted tiles by Villeroy and Boch. In November 1997, it was entered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "World's Most Beautiful Milk Shop". Today, you can buy regional products such as cheese, wine and toiletries.
Sight 9: Pferdekopfbrunnen
The Pferdetränkbrunnen is a fountain created in 1921 by Paul Polte on Bautzner Strasse in the Outer Neustadt district of Dresden, Germany. It is a listed building.
Sight 10: Martin-Luther-Kirche
The Martin Luther Church in Dresden's Neustadt district is a church built in the late 19th century. It stands on Martin-Luther-Platz, which was built in 1879 in the middle of numerous Wilhelminian style houses.
Sight 11: Rosa Conradi
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 12: Grützner-Villa
The Grützner Villa is a building at Bautzner Straße 17 in the Outer Neustadt district of Dresden, Germany. The villa has been a listed building since 1971.
Sight 13: Scheune
The Scheune cultural center is located in Dresden in the Outer Neustadt trendy district. It uses the building of the former youth club house "Martin Andersen Nexö".
Wikipedia: Scheune (Dresden) (DE), Website, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube
Sight 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.
Sight 15: 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.
Sight 16: Stille Wasser
Still Waters and Stormy Waves is a twin fountain on Albertplatz in Dresden, Germany. It was created between 1883 and 1894 by Robert Diez and is a listed building.
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