Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #5 in Dresden, Germany

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Number of sights 12 sights
Distance 6.8 km
Ascend 72 m
Descend 68 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: Dresdner Mühle

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The Dresdener Mühle is a flour mill on the Alberthafen in the Friedrichstadt district of Dresden, Germany.

Wikipedia: Dresdener Mühle (DE)

484 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: 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 3: 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 4: 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)

435 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: 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)

262 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: 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)

379 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Schulmuseum

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

Wikipedia: Schulmuseum Dresden (DE), Website

1467 meters / 18 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)

1923 meters / 23 minutes

Sight 9: 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

160 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Berthold Wronkow

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Berthold Wronkow 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)

877 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 11: Vorbereitungszentrum Turnerweg (01097)

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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.

Wikipedia: Hauptpostamt Dresden 6 (DE)

506 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 12: Bahnhof Dresden-Neustadt

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Bahnhof Dresden-Neustadt Christian Liebscher (Platte) / CC BY-SA 3.0

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.

Wikipedia: Dresden-Neustadt station (EN)

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