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Sightseeing Tours in DresdenActivities in Dresden1. Church of Our Lady
The Frauenkirche in Dresden is a Lutheran church in Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony. Destroyed during the Allied firebombing of Dresden towards the end of World War II, the church was reconstructed between 1994 and 2005.
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2. Statue of King John
The King Johann Monument is a bronze, six-metre-high equestrian statue of the Saxon King Johann on Dresden's Theaterplatz, which was created by Johannes Schilling from 1882 and unveiled in 1889. In the Baroque tradition, it stands as a point de vue at the intersection of the central axes of the Semperoper and the Sempergalerie.
3. Pfunds Molkerei
The Dresden dairy Gebrüder Pfund is a landmark in Dresden and is located in the Outer Neustadt district. The milk shop is best known for its original hand-painted tiles from Villeroy and Boch. In November 1997, it was entered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "Most Beautiful Milk Shop in the World". Today, you can buy regional products such as cheese, wine and care products.
4. Dreikönigskirche
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.
5. Kunsthofpassage
The Kunsthofpassage is a passage consisting of five individual courtyards, in the Outer Neustadt in Dresden, starting in the house at Görlitzer Straße 25, and extending 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. As artists, Viola Schöpe, Annette Paul, André Tempel, Christoph Roßner, Arendt Zwicker and the stone sculptors Sandner and Matz were jointly responsible for the design of the outer facades.
6. Semperoper
The Semperoper is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden and the concert hall of the Staatskapelle Dresden. It is also home to the Semperoper Ballett. The building is located on the Theaterplatz near the Elbe River in the historic centre of Dresden, Germany.
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7. Kulturpalast
The Kulturpalast Dresden is a modernist building built by Wolfgang Hänsch during the era of the German Democratic Republic. It was the largest multi-purpose hall in Dresden when it opened in 1969, and was used for concerts, dances, conferences and other events. The building underwent several years of reconstruction beginning in 2012 and opened with a new concert hall in April 2017.
8. Historisches Grünes Gewölbe
The Green Vault is a museum located in Dresden, Germany, which contains the largest treasure collection in Europe. The museum was founded in 1723 by Augustus the Strong of Poland and Saxony, and it features a variety of exhibits in styles from Baroque to Classicism. The Green Vault is named after the formerly malachite green painted column bases and capitals of the initial rooms. It has some claim to be the oldest museum in the world; it is older than the British Museum, opened in 1759, but the Kunstkamera in St. Petersburg, Russia was opened in 1714 and the Vatican Museums date their foundation to the public display of the newly excavated Laocoön group in 1506.
9. Fetscherstein
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.
10. Dresden Hauptbahnhof
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.
11. Carl-Maria-von-Weber-Denkmal
The Zwinger is a palatial complex with gardens in Dresden, Germany. Designed by architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, it is one of the most important buildings of the Baroque period in Germany. Along with the Frauenkirche, the Zwinger is the most famous architectural monument of Dresden.
12. Moreau-Denkmal
Jean Victor Marie Moreau was a French general who helped Napoleon Bonaparte rise to power, but later became his chief military and political rival and was banished to the United States. He is among the foremost French generals in military history.
13. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, Germany, displays around 750 paintings from the 15th to the 18th centuries. It includes major Italian Renaissance works as well as Dutch and Flemish paintings. Outstanding works by German, French, and Spanish painters of the period are also among the gallery's attractions.
14. Marienbrücke
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 existed 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 Elbe bridge in the city.
15. Goldener Reiter
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 Augustusbrücke 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.
16. Albertbrücke
The Albert Bridge is the easternmost of the four Elbe bridges in Dresden's city centre, it was built in the 1870s. The 316-metre-long bridge is named after King Albert of Saxony. In GDR times, it was called the Bridge of Unity, commemorating the unification of the KPD and SPD (1946).
17. Gedenkstätte für die Opfer des 13. und 14. Februar 1945
The Municipal Heath Cemetery in Dresden is a municipal forest cemetery on the northern outskirts of the city with several memorials and groves of honour. Until 2015, the official wreath-laying ceremony for the victims of the bombing raids of 13 to 15 February 1945 took place every year at the Heidefriedhof. After the Soviet Garrison Cemetery established in 1945, it is the youngest cemetery in Dresden.
18. Technische Sammlungen Dresden
The Technical Collections Dresden are the Technikmuseum and Science Center of the state capital Dresden. In an earlier camera factory, children, adolescents and families find many opportunities to experiment and explore nature phenomena, foundations of science and the latest achievements of technology. With constant exhibitions on the history of photography and film, computer and other media technology as well as special exhibitions on photo art and current technology research, the technical collections promote dealing with the technical foundations of the present. The special feature is the combination of technology and industrial history with science and current research. The technical collections are the country of adventure, public forum for technology research, museum of information society and podium for photography and animated film in one. Cooperations play an important role, for example with the TU Dresden, Dresden-Concept and other partners from science and research.
19. Landeskommando Sachsen
The State Command Saxony in the Graf Stauffenberg barracks in the Dresden Albertstadt is responsible for the cooperation of the Bundeswehr with the civilian authorities in Saxony. Around 50 active soldiers and 15 civilian employees are employed by the state command and the branch offices in Marienberg, Leipzig and Frankenberg. With its reservists in 19 connecting commands, the state command Saxony keeps close contact with counties, independent cities and the state directorate. In addition to the crisis management, the maintenance of contact with the military crisis operations of the neighboring countries is one of the tasks. In addition, the state command for the Host Nation Support, the care of foreign troops, which are guests at German territory, is responsible. An important part of the tasks of the state command is the reservist work. The state command was established in 2007. First it was subordinate to the military area command III, from 2013 the command of territorial tasks of the Bundeswehr, until the assumption of the Bundeswehr in 2022 moved to the Bundeswehr territorial command in Berlin.
20. Leipziger Bahnhof
Leipzig station was the first railway station in Dresden, the capital of Saxony. It was located not far from today's Dresden-Neustadt station in the Leipziger Vorstadt and was the terminus of the first German long-distance railway Leipzig–Dresden, which was inaugurated in 1839.
21. Sowjetischer Garnisonfriedhof
The Soviet Garrison Cemetery in Dresden was built in May 1945 as a war cemetery of the Red Army. From 1946 to 1987, it was officially used as a site cemetery for soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army who died during the occupation, their family members and civilian employees of the military, and was expanded three times by the city of Dresden during this time. From 1968 onwards, however, occupancy was only sporadic. The Soviet Garrison Cemetery is a listed building, see List of Monument Preservation Groups in Dresden #Kirchen and Cemeteries.
22. Maria am Wasser
Maria am Wasser is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the Hosterwitz district of Dresden, Germany. With its exterior, which is reminiscent of the southern German sacred building of the Baroque, it is completely atypical for the Dresden region. At 1,500 square meters, the churchyard is one of the smallest cemeteries in the city. The church of Maria am Wasser and the churchyard are listed as historical monuments and were part of the cultural landscape of the Dresden Elbe Valley from 2004 to 2009 and were part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
23. Cholerabrunnen
The Cholera Fountain is a neo-Gothic fountain. It is located in Dresden on Sophienstraße, between the Zwinger and the Taschenberg Palace. It was financed by Baron Eugen von Gutschmid, who wanted to show his gratitude for the fact that Dresden had been spared the cholera epidemic (1841/1842), which had broken out on the Oder and Lower Elbe rivers and had also threatened Dresden. In addition to Gottfried Semper as architect, Karl-Moritz Seelig took over the design, which was ceremoniously handed over to the city on July 15, 1846.
24. Kathedrale Ss. Trinitatis
Dresden Cathedral, or the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Dresden, previously the Catholic Church of the Royal Court of Saxony, called in German Katholische Hofkirche and since 1980 also known as Kathedrale Sanctissimae Trinitatis, is the Catholic Cathedral of Dresden.
25. Loschwitzer Brücke
Loschwitz Bridge is a cantilever truss bridge over the river Elbe in Dresden the capital of Saxony in Germany. It connects the city districts of Blasewitz and Loschwitz, two affluent residential areas, which around 1900 were amongst the most expensive in Europe. It is located close to Standseilbahn Dresden funicular railway and the world's oldest suspension railway Schwebebahn Dresden, as well as near the Dresden TV tower. The bridge is colloquially referred to as Blaues Wunder. This common name purportedly referred to the bridge's original blue colour and being seen as a technological miracle at the time; it is also understood to carry the cynical connotation referencing the German idiom ein blaues Wunder erleben meaning "to experience an unpleasant surprise", reflecting the skeptical view of contemporary commentators. There is also a bridge in Wolgast known as Blaues Wunder.
26. Lingnerschloss (Villa Stockhausen)
The Lingner Castle, actually Villa Stockhausen, is the geographically middle of the three Elbe castles in Dresden. Located in the centre of the former World Heritage Site of the Dresden Elbe Valley (2004–2009), its terrace offers an impressive view of a large part of the area and was chosen as the seat of the World Heritage Centre. The name "Lingnerschloss" is more common today than the original name "Villa Stockhausen".
27. Trümmerfrau
Trümmerfrau were 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.
28. Leonhardi-Museum
The Leonhardi Museum is located in the former Hentschel mill in the Dresden district of Loschwitz. The museum is named after the museum's founder, the late Romantic landscape painter Eduard Leonhardi (1828–1905). Since 1991, the "Leo" has been a gallery of the state capital Dresden and shows changing exhibitions of contemporary art as well as a small presentation of Leonhardi's paintings.
29. Herz-Jesu-Kirche
The Catholic Sacred Heart Church 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 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 Dresden deanery.
30. Palais im Großen Garten
The Palais im Großen Garten, also known as the Summer or Garden Palace, is a Baroque pleasure palace in Dresden built from 1679 onwards. It is located in the Great Garden, a spacious green area on the outskirts of the city centre.
31. NaturKulturBad Zschonergrund
The Zschonergrund, also Zschoner Grund or Zschöne, is a landscape conservation area (d35) in the west of Dresden, through which the Zschonerbach flows. The valley begins in the Dresden district of Zöllmen, crosses Ockerwitz and Briesnitz and ends in Kemnitz, where the stream flows into the Elbe near the A 4 motorway bridge. The valley is a popular recreation area with its meadow and forest landscape.
32. Castle Eckberg
Eckberg Castle is one of the three Elbe castles and is located on the right slope of the Elbe in Dresden, about 3 kilometers upstream of the Elbe from the city center. West of Eckberg Castle is the Lingner Castle and next to it the Albrechtsberg Castle.
33. Pillnitzer Kamelie
The Pillnitz camellia is one of the oldest camellias found in Europe. Now at least 246 years old, it has reached a height of about 8.90 meters and a diameter of almost 11 meters. During its flowering period, which lasts from February to April, up to 35,000 flowers appear. These are of a crimson color, unfilled and without fragrance. The plant is located in the park of Pillnitz Castle and is protected from frosts by a mobile greenhouse.
34. Garnisonkirche St. Martin
The Garrison Church of St. Martin in Dresden was the garrison church of Albertstadt, which was built as a military town for large parts of the Saxon army. The double church was built in the second construction phase between 1893 and 1900 in a central location of the barracks complex.
35. Freilichtbühne Junge Garde
The Freilichtbühne Großer Garten is a venue in the southeast of the Park Großer Garten in Dresden, Germany. It was created between 1953 and 1955 as the open-air theatre "Junge Garde" on the site of a former gravel pit and opened on 12 August 1955. It offers space for 4,900 spectators.
36. Schloss Pillnitz
Pillnitz Palace is a restored Baroque castle at the eastern end of the city of Dresden in the German state of Saxony. It is located on the right bank of the River Elbe in the former village of Pillnitz. It was the summer residence of many electors and kings of Saxony; it is also known for the Declaration of Pillnitz in 1791.
37. Blockhaus
In Dresden, the Neustädter Wache on the west side of the Neustadt bridgehead of the Augustus Bridge is called a blockhouse. The free-standing building is located on Neustädter Markt, a few meters from the Goldener Reiter. The architect was Zacharias Longuelune.
38. Beyer-Bau
The Beyer Building of the Technical University of Dresden was built between 1910 and 1913 for the Department of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Dresden by Martin Dülfer. The listed group of buildings still houses the Faculty of Civil Engineering, the Institute of Applied Photophysics in the Department of Physics and the Chair of Astronomy in the Department of Earth Sciences. Striking in the cityscape is the 40-metre-high observatory tower.
39. Bismarcksäule
The Bismarck Column in Dresden-Räcknitz is a 23-metre-high Bismarck monument that is now used as an observation tower. It is part of the Bismarck myth around 1900 and the associated monument boom of that time.
40. 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.
41. Denkmal Caroline Neuber
Friederike Caroline Neuber, née Friederike Caroline Weissenborn, also known as Friedericke Karoline Neuber, Frederika Neuber, Karoline Neuber, Carolina Neuber, Frau Neuber, and Die Neuberin, was a German actress and theatre director. She is considered one of the most famous actresses and actor-managers in the history of the German theatre, "influential in the development of modern German theatre." Neuber also worked to improve the social and artistic status of German actors and actresses, emphasizing naturalistic technique. During a time when theatrical managers in Germany were predominantly men, Caroline Neuber stands out in history as a remarkably ambitious woman who, during her 25-year career, was able to alter theatrical history, elevating the status of German theatre alongside of Germany's most important male theatrical leaders at the time, such as "her actor-manager husband Johann, the popular stage fool Johann Müller, the major actor of the next generation Johann Schönemann, the multi-talented newcomer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and principally, their de facto Dramaturg, Johann Gottsched."
42. Kreuzkirche
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.
43. Carte Blanche (Travestie)
The Travestie-Revue-Theater Carte Blanche is a travesty theater in the Dresden district of Äußere Neustadt. The renowned ensemble, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2009 as part of the Dresden Film Nights, gained nationwide fame, among other things, through the television program Das Sat.1-Magazin, which was broadcast in the early evening program, when reporters accompanied theater director Zora Schwarz for a week and looked behind the scenes of the theater.
44. Albertinum
The Albertinum is a modern art museum. The sandstone-clad Renaissance Revival building is located on Brühl's Terrace in the historic center of Dresden, Germany. It is named after King Albert of Saxony.
45. Italienisches Dörfchen
The Italian Village is a restaurant in Dresden, Germany. It is located on Theaterplatz near the Hofkirche, the Zwinger and the Semperoper in the historic area of the city centre. The name refers to an earlier development at this point.
46. George gate
The Georgentor or the Georgenbau is the original city exit from Dresden to the Elbe bridge. It is located in the Inner Old Town on Schloßplatz between the Residenzschloss and the Stallhof. This first Renaissance building in Dresden was initiated by George the Bearded, who had the former city gate of Dresden's only Elbe bridge at the time converted into the Georgentor from 1530 to 1535. Today, the building impresses with its representative façade in the monumental neo-Renaissance style.
47. Coselpalais
The Coselpalais is a palace in the Inner Old Town in Dresden, Germany. With the address An der Frauenkirche 12, it is located northeast of the Frauenkirche at the junction of Salzgasse with this side square of Neumarkt.
48. Goldener Rathausmann
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 with his raised hand to the beauties of the city at his feet.
49. Kreisgrabenanlage Dresden-Nickern
The Dresden-Nickern circular ditch system is an early complex of at least four independent circular ditch systems in the Dresden district of Nickern in the area around the Gebergrund. The facilities are located on several excavation areas that were created before the construction of a feeder road to the A 17 motorway to explore the route.
50. Neue Synagoge Dresden
The New Synagogue is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at Hasenberg 1, in the old town of Dresden, Germany. The edifice was completed in 2001 and designed by architects Rena Wandel-Hoefer and Wolfgang Lorch. It was built on the same location as the Semper Synagogue (1839–1840) designed by Gottfried Semper, which was destroyed in 1938, during the Kristallnacht.
51. Yenidze
Yenidze is a former cigarette factory building in Dresden, Saxony, Germany built between 1907 and 1909. Today it is used as an office building. It is notable for its Moorish Revival exterior design which borrows design elements from mosques and the Alhambra in Spain.
52. Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon
The Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon in Dresden, Germany, is a museum of historic clocks and scientific instruments. Its holdings include terrestrial and celestial globes, astronomical, optical and geodetic devices dating back to the 16th century, as well as historic instruments for calculating and drawing length, mass, temperature and air pressure.
53. Alter Jüdischer Friedhof
The Old Jewish Cemetery in Dresden is the oldest preserved Jewish cemetery in Saxony. It is located north of Bautzner Straße on Pulsnitzer Straße in the Neustadt, near the Martin Luther Church and, with 3500 square meters, is one of the smallest cemeteries in Dresden. It is protected as a cultural monument.
54. 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.
55. Neue Mensa
The Neue Mensa in the Dresden district of Räcknitz is a canteen building for the Technical University of Dresden, it is operated by the Studentenwerk Dresden. The building is located at Bergstraße 51. After the renovation of the "Alte Mensa" in 2007, the name Mensa Bergstraße was also used; up to 4,500 portions of food were served daily in five dining halls. In total, the canteen had 60 employees.
56. Martin-Luther-Kirche
The Martin Luther Church in Dresden's Neustadt is a church built in the late 19th century. It stands on Martin-Luther-Platz, which was built from 1879 onwards, in the middle of numerous Wilhelminian style houses.
57. Schillerhäuschen
The Schiller House is a literature museum in Dresden dedicated to the important German poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller. It was set up in a small building where Schiller is said to have stayed and belongs to the network of museums of the city of Dresden.
58. Sphinx
Belvedere is the name for four pleasure locks that stood one after the other on the northeast corner of the Brühl Terrace in Dresden. The fourth and last Belvedere was built in 1842 based on the first Semperoper, in 1945 it fell victim to the war, and a reconstruction was offered in 2008 and 2016 by a citizen.
59. Gedenkstätte Bautzner Straße Dresden
The Bautzner Straße Dresden Memorial is a memorial for the victims of the GDR Ministry of State Security (MfS) in Dresden, the capital of Saxony. It is the only remand prison of the "Stasi" in the Free State that has been preserved in its original form and is accessible to visitors. Both the perspective of former political prisoners on remand and that of former secret service employees are addressed in the exhibition. The memorial is supported by the association "Erkenntnis durch Erinnerung e. V."
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60. Neumarkt
The Neumarkt is a square and culturally significant section of central Dresden, Germany. The historic area was almost completely wiped out during the Allied bombing during the Second World War. After the war, Dresden fell under Soviet occupation, and later the communist German Democratic Republic, which rebuilt the Neumarkt area in socialist realist style and partially with historic buildings. However, huge areas and parcels of the place remained untilled. After the fall of Communism and German reunification, the decision was made to restore the Neumarkt to its pre-war look.
61. Fichteturm
The Fichteturm is an observation tower in Dresden-Plauen, Germany. The 30-metre-high, crenellated round tower on a cubic base was originally built in 1896 as the Bismarck Tower. It is the oldest Bismarck Tower in Saxony and is located in the Fichtepark near the Kotteweg tram stop.
62. Procession of Princes
The Fürstenzug in Dresden, Germany, is a large mural of a mounted procession of the rulers of Saxony. It was originally painted between 1871 and 1876 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Wettin Dynasty, Saxony's ruling family. In order to make the work weatherproof, it was replaced with approximately 23,000 Meissen porcelain tiles between 1904 and 1907. With a length of 102 metres (335 ft), it is known as the largest porcelain artwork in the world. The mural displays the ancestral portraits of the 35 margraves, electors, dukes and kings of the House of Wettin between 1127 and 1904.
63. Bürgerwiese
The Bürgerwiese, which is about ten hectares in size, is a landscape garden in Dresden. The dimensions of the Bürgerwiese, located southeast of the old town centre, are 850 metres long and 80 to 100 metres wide. It is the oldest green space in Dresden.
64. Galerie Neue Meister
The Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden, Germany, displays around 300 paintings from the 19th century until today, including works from Otto Dix, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet. The gallery also exhibits a number of sculptures from the Dresden Sculpture Collection from the same period. The museum's collection grew out of the Old Masters Gallery, for which contemporary works were increasingly purchased after 1843.
65. Alte Mensa
The Alte Mensa Dresden is a canteen in Dresden, Germany. It is located on the main campus of the Technical University of Dresden in the Dresden district of Räcknitz. The northern main entrance leads to Mommsenstraße and the side entrances to the west to Helmholtzstraße and to the east to Dülferstraße. The building, which opened in 1925, is operated by the Studentenwerk Dresden and, according to its own statements, is the oldest canteen in Germany. Immediately adjacent is the former rectorate building at Mommsenstraße 15 as an example of socialist classicism.
66. Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage
The community center of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Dresden is located at Tiergartenstraße 42. The building was built in 1988 as the second community center of this religious community in the GDR and is one of the few examples of historicizing postmodernism in GDR architecture of the 1980s.
Wikipedia: Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage (Dresden) (DE)
67. Neptunbrunnen
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.
68. Blaues Haus
Blaues Haus is the name of the high-rise building at Gerhart-Hauptmann-Straße 1 in Dresden-Strehlen, near Lennéplatz. It was built between 1958 and 1960 as an office building for the Institute of Labour Economics and Occupational Safety and Health Research and was later used by its successors, the Central Research Institute for Labour (ZFA) and the Central Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (ZIAS). Today it is a residential building. The building is considered "one of the most innovative buildings in Dresden around 1960" and is a listed building.
69. St.-Petri-Kirche
St. Peter's Church is a neo-Gothic church in the Dresden district of Leipziger Vorstadt. It is located on Großenhainer Platz on Großenhainer Straße and is used by the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Parish of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church.
70. Hungersteine
A hunger stone is a type of hydrological landmark common in Central Europe. Hunger stones serve as famine memorials and warnings and were erected in Germany and in ethnic German settlements throughout Europe in the 15th through 19th centuries.
71. Güntzwiesen
The Güntzwiesen are a green space and urban open space in Dresden. They are the location of the Dresden Stadium, named after Rudolf Harbig, the home of SG Dynamo Dresden. The Güntzwiesen bear their name after Justus Friedrich Güntz, who in 1856 set up a foundation (Güntzstiftung), whose funds were later used to design the meadows, among other things. Its northern part has been called Cockerwiese since 2016, after this name had already existed colloquially since Joe Cocker's big concert on June 2, 1988.
72. Kraszewski-Museum
The Kraszewski Museum is a literary museum in Dresden, Germany, dedicated to the Polish writer, painter, historian and composer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (1812–1887). It was set up in 1960 in the building he lived in during part of his more than 20 years in exile in Dresden.
73. Heilandskirche
The Church of the Redeemer is an Evangelical Lutheran church with a parish and parish hall in Dresden, in the district of Cotta. The entire complex is a striking example of Dresden's reform architecture and is a listed building.
74. Friedenskirche
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peace is a listed sacred building in the Dresden district of Löbtau. The church, which was built with the incorporation of the remains of the previous building, which was largely destroyed in 1945, is now one of the 41 surviving emergency churches by the architect Otto Bartning in Germany. Together with the Church of Hope, the Church of Peace has been part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Peace and Hope since 1999.
75. Heimat- und Palitzsch-Museum Prohlis
The Palitzsch Museum is one of the museums of the city of Dresden. It is dedicated to the 7000-year settlement history of today's Prohlis district and to the Prohlis farmer and scientist Johann George Palitzsch, who in 1758 was the first to see Halley's Comet, which was eagerly awaited at the time, and thus became known throughout Europe.
76. Palais Brühl-Marcolini
The Palais Brühl-Marcolini is a garden palace built from 1727 onwards in the suburb of Ostra near Dresden, which was laid out from 1670 in today's Friedrichstadt district. Today, the palace and later extensions and new buildings on its property are home to the Dresden-Friedrichstadt hospital. The Palais Brühl-Marcolini is not to be confused with Marcolini's hunting lodge in the Waldschlösschen district and the former Palais Brühl on Brühl's Terrace.
77. Stadtverwaltung Radebeul
The former Radebeul post office, also known as the Alte Post, is located at Pestalozzistraße 4 in Radebeul's original district of Alt-Radebeul, directly east (left) next to the town hall. Today, the building houses parts of the Radebeul city administration with the Law and Order Office, in particular the registry office, which, together with the main office, are subordinate to the Second Mayor.
78. Weinbergskirche
The Weinbergskirche is a sacred building built in the 20th century in the Saxon state capital Dresden. It lies in the Trachenberge district and belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Dresden-Trachau. It is not to be confused with the baroque vineyard church in Dresden's Pillnitz district.
79. Heilig-Geist-Kirche
The Evangelical Church of the Holy Spirit is a listed sacred building in the Blasewitz district of Dresden and today one of the three places of worship of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Dresden-Blasewitz.
80. Neuer Jüdischer Friedhof
The New Jewish Cemetery is the second Jewish cemetery in Dresden and is located next to the Trinity Cemetery on Fiedlerstraße, at the corner of Fetscherstraße. On an area of 13900 square meters there are about 2600 graves.
81. Hausmannsturm
The Hausmannsturm is the oldest part of Dresden Castle that still exists today and was started around 1400 in its lower parts. It is located on the north side of the building complex. The octagonal structure is crowned by a copper-covered Welsh hood and an open lantern with a top. With a height of 100.27 metres, the tower is one of the most striking buildings in Dresden and a popular vantage point.
82. Straßenbahnmuseum Dresden e.V.
The Dresden Tram Museum is a collection of museum trams that used to be in regular service in the Dresden metropolitan area. Most of them are former vehicles of the Dresden tramway. This transport museum is supported by the association "Straßenbahnmuseum Dresden e. V.", whose members restored and look after the more than 30 cars in the collection.
83. Schloss Albrechtsberg
Albrechtsberg Palace or Albrechtsberg Castle is a Neoclassical stately home above the Elbe river in the Loschwitz district of Dresden. It was erected in 1854 according to plans designed by the Prussian court and landscaping architect Adolf Lohse (1807–1867) at the behest of Prince Albert, younger brother of the Prussian king Frederick William IV.
84. Christuskirche
The Christuskirche is an Evangelical Lutheran church in the Klotzsche district of Dresden, Germany. It was built as the second church in the village from 1905 to 1907 and has been one of Dresden's churches since Klotzsche's incorporation in 1950.
85. Hoher Stein
The Hoher Stein is a rock with an observation tower above the Plauensche Grund in the Dresden district of Plauen. Because of its geological features, the Hohe Stein is a natural monument under state protection.
86. Markuskirche
St. Mark's Church is a Protestant church in the Dresden district of Pieschen. It stands on St. Mark's Square between Bürgerstraße, Torgauer and Osterbergstraße. The church is named after the evangelist Mark.
87. Russian Orthodox Church
The St. Simeon of the Wonderful Mountain Church is a Russian Orthodox church in the German city of Dresden. It was designed by Harald Julius von Bosse and Karl Weißbach and built from 1872 to 1874. It is dedicated to Simeon Stylites the Younger.
Wikipedia: St. Simeon of the Wonderful Mountain Church (EN), Website, Flickr
88. St. Hubertus
St. Hubertus is a Roman Catholic church building in the Weißer Hirsch district of Dresden, which was built as a chapel in 1936–1937 according to plans by the Dresden architect Robert Witte. Along with the parish hall of the Christuskirche and the Hoffnungskirche, it is one of the few sacred buildings that were built in Dresden between 1933 and 1945 and is an example of "homeland-bound architecture".
89. Alaunplatz
Alaunplatz is a square in the Outer 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 Äußere Neustadt in the north. Line 13 of the Dresden tram has a stop "Alaunplatz" there.
90. Schlosskirche Lockwitz
The Schlosskirche Lockwitz is a late Gothic, listed sacred building in the Dresden district of Lockwitz. It is the only Evangelical Lutheran church in Dresden that is structurally connected to a castle. The Castle Church is the main church of the parish of the same name.
91. Matthäus-Kirche
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 severely 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.
92. Neustädter Markthalle
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.
93. Brühlscher Garten
Today, the Brühl Garden is only called the eastern part of the Brühl Terrace in Dresden on the Maiden's Bastion, the site of the former Belvederes (I - IV), but originally the entire garden on the Brühl Terrace. He was one of Brühl's glories.
94. Nazarethkirche
The Nazareth Church in Dresden-Seidnitz is a place of worship of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Dresden-Gruna-Seidnitz. The sacred ensemble, which is a listed building, is located at Altseidnitz 12 in the Seidnitz district.
95. Akademie für berufliche Bildung
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 planning officer Hans Erlwein as a new educational building for the expansion of the Ehrlichsche Stift. After its partial destruction in the air raids in the final phase of the Second World War, reconstruction took place in 1950/1951 in the style of socialist classicism of "peculiar, sober beauty" using the existing building fabric in "based on the traditional Dresden building method". A sandstone rustica and a vertical structuring by pilaster strips on the upper floors are hallmarks of the building.
96. Trafoturm Radebeul
The so-called transformer tower on the corner of Meißner Straße / Einsteinstraße in the Saxon city of Radebeul is a former transformer station. The listed building dates back to around 1910 and is right next to it the hotel and restaurant "Zu den Linden" by Radebeul confectioner and specialist author Erich Weber.
97. Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden
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.
98. Käseglocke
Käseglocke is the colloquial name of a building built in 1927/28 on the Postplatz in Dresden as a waiting hall, which served with interruptions from 1994 to 2013 as a service point of the Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB). The pavilion-like building is a listed building and functions as a café.
99. Dinglingerbrunnen
The Dinglinger Fountain is a listed Baroque fountain in Dresden, Germany. It is considered the oldest preserved courtyard fountain in the Saxon state capital. It is named after the court jeweller and goldsmith of Augustus the Strong, Johann Melchior Dinglinger, who had it made for himself.
100. Landhaus
The Landhaus is a historic building in Dresden, Germany. Designed to house the Saxony region's Landstand, it was built in the Baroque style between 1770 and 1776 by Friedrich August Krubsacius on the site of the former Palais Flemming-Sulkowski. In September 1775 the Obersteuerkollegium moved into it and in October the Landstand first sat there. It now houses the Dresden City Museum and the Dresden City Art Gallery.
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