Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Dresden, Germany

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.

Wikipedia: Liste der Stolpersteine in Dresden (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Lehrgebäude Blochmannstraße 2 (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 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)

Trümmerfrau is the German-language name for women who, in the aftermath of World War II, helped clear and reconstruct the bombed cities of Germany and Austria. Hundreds of cities had suffered significant bombing and firestorm damage through aerial attacks and ground war, so with many men dead or prisoners of war, this monumental task fell to a large degree on women.

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The Golden Town Hall Man is a sculpture on the tower of the New Town Hall in Dresden. It symbolizes Hercules, who pours out his cornucopia with one hand and points to the beauties of the city at his feet with his raised hand.

Wikipedia: Goldener Rathausmann (Dresden) (DE)

The Dresden Kreuzkirche is a Lutheran church in Dresden, Germany. It is the main church and seat of the Landesbischof of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony, and the largest church building in the Free State of Saxony. It also is home of the Dresdner Kreuzchor boys' choir.

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Rainer Fetscher was a German physician, hereditary researcher and eugenicist. He is the father of political scientist Iring Fetscher. In Dresden, Fetscher had and still has the reputation of a humanist and anti-fascist, which was reflected in numerous posthumous honors, among other things.

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The Trompeterschlösschen was a building on Dippoldiswalder Platz in Dresden, Germany.

Wikipedia: Trompeterschlösschen (Dresden) (DE)

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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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.

Wikipedia: Dresden Hauptbahnhof (EN)

Anne's Church is named in honour of Anne of Denmark, Electress of Saxony. The original 1578 church was destroyed by Prussian troops in 1760 during the Seven Years' War. The new church was opened in 1769.

Wikipedia: Anne's Church, Dresden (EN)

Sternplatz is located in the city center of Dresden.

Wikipedia: Sternplatz (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)