During the Napoleonic Wars the French Emperor made it a base of operations, winning there the Battle of Dresden on 27 August 1813. The church is the cathedral "Sanctissimae Trinitatis" since 1980. Its musical ensemble is the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, founded in 1548. According to the Hamburgische Weltwirtschaftsinstitut (HWWI) and Berenberg Bank, in 2019, Dresden had the seventh best prospects for the future of all cities in Germany.[5]. OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license. [107] In 2017, the GDP per capita of Dresden was 39,134 euros, the highest in Saxony. At this time, Kirchner painted several different street scenes that illustrated the chaos of city life and the relationship between men and women. [104], The CarGoTram is a tram that supplies Volkswagen's Transparent Factory, crossing the city. Dresden is one of Germany's 16 political centres and the capital of Saxony. [115], Dresden hosts many research institutes, some of which have gained an international standing. [citation needed]. [4] It is dominated by high-tech branches, often called "Silicon Saxony". [63] Starting in October 2014, PEGIDA, a nationalistic political movement based in Dresden has been organizing weekly demonstrations against what it perceives as the Islamization of Europe at the height of the European migrant crisis. The remaining ruins were left for 50 years as a war memorial, before being rebuilt between 1994 and 2005. The opera's reconstruction was completed exactly 40 years later, on 13 February 1985. Until the outbreak of World War I, Hellerau was a centre for European modernism with international standing. The mayor was originally chosen by the city council, but since 1994 has been directly elected. Kirchner later wrote, "The more I mixed with people the more I felt … [citation needed] Another traditional pharmaceuticals producer is Arzneimittelwerke Dresden (Pharmaceutical Works, Dresden). Find more prominent pieces of genre painting at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. In 1726 there was a riot for two days after a Protestant clergyman was killed by a soldier who had recently converted from Catholicism. An der Falkenbrücke Dresden.jpg 4,896 × 3,672; 5.31 MB. [35][36] UNESCO stated in 2006 that the bridge would destroy the cultural landscape. It has jurisdiction over eight rural districts, two urban districts and the city of Dresden. The city was also a centre of European modern art until 1933. Its usefulness was limited by attacks on 13–15 February and 17 April 1945, the former of which destroyed large areas of the city. [86] The Herkuleskeule (Hercules club) is an important site in German-speaking political cabaret. [citation needed], Dresden has more than 20 gymnasia which prepare for a tertiary education, five of which are private. Dresden has 13 twin cities:[70], Although Dresden is often said to be a Baroque city, its architecture is influenced by more than one style. Since 1890, horse races have taken place and the Dresdener Rennverein 1890 e.V. Between 1918 and 1934, Dresden was the capital of the first Free State of Saxony as well as a cultural and economic centre of the Weimar Republic. While about 30% of the system's lines are on reserved track (often sown with grass to avoid noise), many tracks still run on the streets, especially in the inner city. It was given to Friedrich Clem after death of Henry the Illustrious in 1288. The economy of Dresden and its agglomeration is one of the most dynamic in Germany and ranks first in Saxony. The driest months are February, March and April, with precipitation of around 40 mm (1.6 in). A big event each year in June is the Bunte Republik Neustadt,[89] a culture festival lasting three days in the city district of Dresden-Neustadt. . These include the Zwinger Royal Palace, the Japanese Palace, the Taschenbergpalais, the Pillnitz Castle and the two landmark churches: the Catholic Hofkirche and the Lutheran Frauenkirche. Restoration of the Dresden Frauenkirche, a Lutheran church, the rebuilding of which was started after the reunification of Germany in 1994, was completed in 2005, a year before Dresden's 800th anniversary, notably by privately raised funds. Dresden's urban area comprises the towns of Freital, Pirna, Radebeul, Coswig and Heidenau and has around 790,000 inhabitants. It focuses on nuclear medicine and physics. Street, Dresden is a bold expression of the intensity, dissonance, and anxiety of the modern city. The domains of most importance are micro- and nanoelectronics, transport and infrastructure systems, material and photonic technology, and bio-engineering. The city council's legal moves, meant to prevent the bridge from being built, failed. [33], After the Second World War, Dresden became a major industrial centre in the German Democratic Republic (former East Germany) with a great deal of research infrastructure. Because of its location on the banks of the Elbe, into which some water sources from the Ore Mountains flow, flood protection is important. After the war, restoration work has helped to reconstruct parts of the historic inner city. In the following years, the city became a major centre of economy, including motor car production, food processing, banking and the manufacture of medical equipment. Dresden has a third football team SC Borea Dresden. There are several choirs in Dresden, the best-known of which is the Dresdner Kreuzchor (Choir of The Holy Cross). [75] King Augustus III of Poland is buried in the cathedral, as one of very few Polish Kings to be buried outside the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków. Libeskind changed the whole structure of the Bundeswehr Military History Museum by placing a wedge through the historical arsenal building. 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Kirchner and other Die Brücke artists were influenced by Nietzsche’s ideas about breaking apart morality and conventions in modern Germany. A walk from the square (where several nice hotels are [citation needed] Other artists, such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, Richard Strauss, Gottfried Semper and Gret Palucca, were also active in the city. The pharmaceutical sector developed at the end of the 19th century. A great pedestrian street that leads from the Viennese square to the water front and the places where the greatest monuments in Dresden are. This was largely because the river returned to its former route; it had been diverted so that a railway could run along the river bed. Shopping in the Dresden Historic Olod Town Prager Stasse is a popular meeting place for people who like to spend their money. Dresden Airport is the city's international airport, located at the north-western outskirts of the city. 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There are three Max Planck Institutes (MPI) in Dresden: the MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, the MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids, and the MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems. Summary Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is the main protagonist of the urban-fantasy series Dresden Files. Street, Berlin is an oil painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painted in 1913 before the outbreak of World War 1. Dresden's Striezelmarkt is one of the largest Christmas markets in Germany and is considered the first genuine Christmas market in the world. The district was developed in the 1850s by a housing society in an area formerly called Spratslade. [117], The Fraunhofer Society hosts institutes of applied research that also offer mission-oriented research to enterprises. [45] The Dresden Elbe Valley is a former world heritage site which is focused on the conservation of the cultural landscape in Dresden. The United Nations' cultural organization UNESCO declared the Dresden Elbe Valley to be a World Heritage Site in 2004. Dresden has been reworked on the 1.32 update. The urban renewal process, which includes the reconstruction of the area around the Neumarkt square on which the Frauenkirche is situated, will continue for many decades, but public and government interest remains high, and there are numerous large projects underway—both historic reconstructions and modern plans—that will continue the city's recent architectural renaissance. [99], The Kraszewski Museum is a museum dedicated to the most prolific Polish writer Józef Ignacy Kraszewski, who lived in Dresden from 1863 to 1883.[100]. [6][7] Its most prominent building is the Frauenkirche located at the Neumarkt. The completion of the reconstructed Dresden Frauenkirche in 2005 marked the first step in rebuilding the Neumarkt area. Bundesliga after some seasons in the Bundesliga and 3. ", "Dresdener Rennverein 1890 e.V. Cake-Walk • XIX-XX cent. The park of Pillnitz Palace is famous for its botanical treasures, including a more than 230-year-old Japanese camellia and about 400 potted plants.[84]. It hosts some divisions of the German Customs and the eastern Federal Waterways Directorate. In addition, significant art collections and museums were founded. [71], Dresden has some 13 000 listed cultural monuments and eight districts under general preservation orders. Liga.[124]. The Opernhaus am Zwinger presented opera from 1719 to 1756, when the Seven Years' War began. Street, Dresden was painted in 1908 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. [34] After being placed on the list of endangered World Heritage Sites in 2006, the city lost the title in June 2009,[35][36] due to the construction of the Waldschlößchenbrücke, making it only the second ever World Heritage Site to be removed from the register. Notable examples of Renaissance Revival architecture in Dresden include the Albertinum located at Brühl's Terrace as well as the Saxon State Chancellery and the Saxon State Ministery of Finance located on the northern Elbe river banks. The city's historic Kreuzkirche was reconsecrated in 1388.[76]. [68], Dresden and Coventry became twins after the Second World War in an act of reconciliation, as both had suffered near-total destruction from massive aerial bombing. [24], Dresden in the 20th century was a major communications hub and manufacturing centre with 127 factories and major workshops and was designated by the German military as a defensive strongpoint, with which to hinder the Soviet advance. Street, Dresden - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th century art. The name of the city as well as the names of most of its boroughs and rivers are of Slavic origin. Share. [66] The motion was originally put forward by the satirical political party Die Partei. The Titans' home arena is the Margon Arena. [2] The Dresden metropolitan area has approximately 1.34 million inhabitants.[1]. In 1852, the population of Dresden grew to 100,000 inhabitants, making it one of the biggest cities within the German Confederation. Welcome to the Dresden Files Wiki! [31][32], The destruction of Dresden allowed Hildebrand Gurlitt, a major Nazi museum director and art dealer, to hide a large collection of artwork worth over a billion dollars that had been stolen during the Nazi era, as he claimed it had been destroyed along with his house which was located in Dresden. Major enterprises today include AMD's semiconductor fabrication spin-off GlobalFoundries, Infineon Technologies, ZMDI and Toppan Photomasks. The wings of the building have been renewed, built upon and restored many times. Church of The Resurrection in Dresden. It has institutions of democratic local self-administration that are independent from the capital functions. Other universities include the Hochschule für Kirchenmusik, a school specialising in church music, and the Evangelische Hochschule für Sozialarbeit, an education institution for social work. During the German Democratic Republic, many apartment blocks were built. In 2002, torrential rains caused the Elbe to flood 9 metres (30 ft) above its normal height, i.e., even higher than the old record height from 1845, damaging many landmarks (see 2002 European floods). [16] In 1745, the Treaty of Dresden between Prussia, Saxony, and Austria ended the Second Silesian War. Since reunification, the ceremony has taken on a more neutral and pacifist tone (after being used more politically during the Cold War). [citation needed] Widely quoted Nazi propaganda reports claimed 200,000 deaths, but the German Dresden Historians' Commission, made up of 13 prominent German historians, in an official 2010 report published after five years of research concluded that casualties numbered between 18,000 and 25,000. We created Smarthistory to provide students around the world with the highest-quality educational resources for art and cultural heritage—for free. It was built on the old stronghold of the city and was converted to a centre for the royal art collections and a place to hold festivals. Another statue is the memorial of Martin Luther in front of the Frauenkirche.[83]. He volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon suffered a breakdown and was discharged. The wettest months are July and August, with more than 80 mm (3.1 in) per month. We're your best online resource for Dresden Files content, that everyone can edit! It is a boys' choir drawn from pupils of the Kreuzschule, and was founded in the 13th century. It includes the Dresden Zoo and the Dresden Botanical Garden. The inner city of Dresden was largely destroyed. On the night of 13–14 February 1945, 773 RAF Lancaster bombers dropped 1,181.6 tons of incendiary bombs and 1,477.7 tons of high explosive bombs on the city. This is a fantastic whistle-stop tour of Dresden Old Town that’s particularly well-suited for visitors who are short on time and want to see the city’s top historic sites. 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It's like they're a group of creatures with one controlling … The Bundeswehr Military History Museum is placed in the former garrison in the Albertstadt. Two additional trenches, about 50 metres wide, have been built to keep the inner city free of water from the Elbe, by dissipating the water downstream through the inner city's gorge portion. Get directions, maps, and traffic for Dresden, Saxony. The building is designed in an impressively monumental style, but employs plain façades and simple structures. The original parts of the city are almost all in the districts of Altstadt (Old town) and Neustadt (New town). It is currently the easternmost German city in-game. [102], Dresden has a large tramway network operated by Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe, the municipal transport company. Its name etymologically derives from Old Sorbian Drežďany, meaning people of the forest. The most important railway lines run to Berlin, Prague, Leipzig and Chemnitz. Way 87966005 as outer Way 421598299 as outer Way 38669323 as outer Way 55015001 as outer Way 38669464 as outer Way 382551085 as outer Way 382551083 as outer Way 335076813 as outer Way 335076812 as outer Way 38669594 as outer Way 38680594 as outer Way 38680593 as … During the foundation of the German Empire in 1871, a large military facility called Albertstadt was built. Notable examples include the Dresden Porcelain Collection, the Collection of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, the Grünes Gewölbe and the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon. Dresden hosts the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) which, according to the institution's own statements, place it among the most important museums presently in existence. The institutes are well connected among one other as well as with the academic education institutions.[116]. (eds.). Their first opera house was the Opernhaus am Taschenberg, opened in 1667. [126], Capitals of European states and territories, Dresden is actually the third largest city on the. The destruction from this "millennium flood" is no longer visible, due to the speed of reconstruction. The Transport Authority operates twelve lines on a 200 km (124 mi) network. While its football team plays in the sixth-tier Landesliga Sachsen, its volleyball section has a team in the women's Bundesliga. Looking at Jackson Pollock, The Painting Techniques of Jackson Pollock, Paint Application Studies of Jackson Pollock’s, The Painting Techniques of Barnett Newman, How Photographs of Poverty in the Americas Ignited an International Battle over Propaganda, Gerhard Richter, The Cage Paintings (1-6), Louis Sullivan, Carson, Pirie, Scott Building, A Landmark Decision: Penn Station, Grand Central, and the architectural heritage of NYC, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, Gordon Bunshaft for Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Lever House, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building, New York City, Russel Wright, “American Modern” Pitchers, Glass Chair at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, Running in sneakers, the Judson Dance Theater, Breuer, The Whitney Museum of American Art (now The Met Breuer), Robert Venturi, House in New Castle County, Delaware, Zaha Hadid, MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, https://smarthistory.org/kirchner-street-dresden/. We believe that the brilliant histories of art belong to everyone, no matter their background. The CDU and AfD voted against it. [44] The Dresden Heath (Dresdner Heide) to the north is a forest 50 km2 in size. The painting is Oil on canvas, 4'11 1/4"x6'6 7/8".The current artwork is held in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Between 2000 and 2010, the population grew quickly by more than 45,000 inhabitants (about 9.5%) due to a stabilised economy and re-urbanisation. Dresden's Striezelmarkt was first held in 1434 and is considered the first genuine Christmas market, as ... Birmingham's Christmas Market, primarily located on New Street between the Bullring shopping centre and the Council House, is the "largest outdoor Christmas market in the UK" as well as the "largest authentic German Christmas market outside of Germany or Austria". Historicist buildings made their presence felt on the cityscape until the 1920s. In Dresden it begins to cross the Ore Mountains towards Prague. There are two main inter-city transit hubs in the railway network in Dresden: Dresden Hauptbahnhof and Dresden-Neustadt railway station. Their factories attract many suppliers of material and cleanroom technology enterprises to Dresden. The Dresden Hauptbahnhof is situated at the southern end of Dresden's main shopping street, Prager Straße, and is a short walking distance from most central attractions in Old Town. Huge collection, amazing choice, 100+ million high quality, affordable RF and RM images. Growing outside the city walls, the historic outskirts were built in the 18th and 19th century. [72], The Dresden Castle was the seat of the royal household from 1485. The composer Havergal Brian was born in Dresden in 1876. The Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research[119] and the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research[120] are both in the material and high-technology domain, while the Leibniz Institute for Ecological and Regional Development is focused on more fundamental research into urban planning.

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