MANCAMONDO

Central Eastern
Europe

DRESDEN

2019

Dresden is the capital city of the German state of Saxony.

It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth
largest by area after Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne.

Most of Dresden's population lives in the Elbe Valley, but a large, albeit very sparsely
sparsely populated area of the city east of the Elbe lies in the West Lusatian Hill Country and Uplands.

The name of the city as well as the names of most of its boroughs and rivers are of Slavic origin.

Dresden is the second largest city in the Thuringian-Upper Saxon dialect area after Leipzig.

Dresden has a long history as the capital and royal residence for the Electors and Kings of Saxony, who for centuries
furnished the city with cultural and artistic splendor, and was once by personal union the family seat of Polish monarchs.

The city was known as the Jewel Box, because of its baroque and rococo city centre.

The Zwinger is a palace, built in Baroque style and designed by court architect Matthaus Daniel Poppelmann.

It served as the orangery, exhibition gallery and festival arena of the Dresden Court.

The location was formerly part of the Dresden fortress of which the outer wall is conserved.

The name derives from the German word Zwinger (an enclosed killing ground in front of a castle or city gate).

It was for the cannons that were placed between the outer wall and the major wall.

The Zwinger was not enclosed until the Neoclassical building by Gottfried Semper called the Semper Gallery was built on its northern side.

Today, the Zwinger is a museum complex that contains the Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Picture Gallery),
the Dresden Porcelain Collection (Dresdener Porzellansammlung) and the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon
(Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments).

The Zwinger covers an area on the northwestern edge of the Innere Altstadt that is part of the historic heart of Dresden

Germany Saxony, Zwinger Dresden City 18 july 2019.

Germany Saxony, Dresden City 18 july 2019.

Germany Saxony, Zwinger Dresden City 18 july 2019.

Germany Saxony, Dresden City 17-18 july 2019.

The Semperoper is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Saxon State Opera)
and the concert hall of the Staatskapelle Dresden (Saxon State Orchestra).

The building is located near the Elbe River in the historic centre of Dresden, Germany.

The opera house was originally built by the architect Gottfried Semper in 1841.

After a devastating fire in 1869, the opera house was rebuilt, partly again by Semper, and completed in 1878.

The opera house has a long history of premieres, including major works by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss.

Germany Saxony, Semperoper Dresden City 18 july 2019.

Germany Saxony, Dresden City 17-18 july 2019.

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.

Always the most important Catholic church of the city, it was elevated to the
status of cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dresden-Meissen in 1964.

The Hofkirche was designed by architect Gaetano Chiaveri from 1738 to 1751.

Germany Saxony, Dresden City 17-18 july 2019.

Germany Saxony, Dresden Academy of Fine Arts City 17-18 july 2019.

The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (German Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste Dresden), often abbreviated
HfBK Dresden or simply HfBK, is a vocational university of visual arts located in Dresden, Germany.

Germany Saxony, Dresden Academy of Fine Arts City 17-18 july 2019.

Germany Saxony, Dresden City 17-18 july 2019.

One of three buildings of today's Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, the former Royal Academy of Arts, built in 1894,
is located at a prominent position in town on Bruhl's Terrace just next to the Frauenkirche.

Germany Saxony, Dresden City 17-18 july 2019.

The Dresden Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) is a Lutheran church in Dresden.

The old church was replaced in the 18th century by a larger Baroque Lutheran building.

It is considered an outstanding example of Protestant sacred architecture, featuring one of the largest domes in Europe.

It was originally built as a sign of the will of the citizens of Dresden to remain Protestant after their ruler had converted to Catholicism.

It now also serves as a symbol of reconciliation between former warring enemies.

Built in the 18th century, the church was destroyed in the bombing of Dresden during World War II.

The church was rebuilt after the reunification of Germany, starting in 1994.

The original Baroque church was built between 1726 and 1743, and was designed by Dresden's city architect, George Bahr.

Germany Saxony, Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady) Dresden City 18 july 2019.

Of the millions of stones used in the rebuilding, more than 8500 original stones were
salvaged from the original church and approximately 3800 reused in the reconstruction.