DRESDEN - Prostějov

DRESDEN
(Drježdźany)
„The Florence on the river Elbe“
By Benjamin Rous,
EVS Prostějov 2009
Structure
General facts
2. Summary of history
3. Culture, sights and nightlife
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Historical buildings, monuments and
museums
Regular Events
Dresdner Neustadt and nightlife
Area arround Dresden
Sources
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General facts
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Sorbian “Drježdźany“ swamp inhabitants
Situated in valley of river Elbe in Saxony
Saxons capital and economical centre
328,31 km²; 512000 inhabitants 1560 i/km²
Called Elb-Florence because of large
collection of art as well as baroque and
mediterranean architecture cultural centre
Archaeologists: since stoneage populated
Historical documents: since 1206
Geographical position
Whole Germany
Federal state Saxony
Short historical summary
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First settled in new stone age 5500 BC
Slavic people from Bohemia in 6th century
City founded in 1173 (colonists community)
historical documents: first 1206, 1216 town
1485: royal residence of saxon electorate
and kingdom political & cultural center
1500: more than 6000 inhabitants
1694: August the Strong became King
Dresden in 1650
Era of August the Strong
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Dresdens golden Era with
influence until the present
A lot of important baroque
buildings were built
Big enlargement of the art
collections and library
Catholic cathedral „Hofkirche“
King of Poland
Uplift from 1700-1755 63,000
inhabitants
Painting: Dresden in 1850
20th century
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First world war had no impact
1918: capital of freestate Saxony
1945: big parts of historical Dresden
destroyed by allieds bombing
GDR: historical monumental buildings
reconstructed; ruin of Frauenkirche left as
memorial for second world war
Dresdens dextroyed City Center in
1945
Dresden at the end of GDR in the
80‘s
2.World War memorial – the ruins
of the Frauenkirche
Time after reunion in 1990
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1990 after German reunion again capital
of the refounded freestate Saxony
1995: started to rebuild the Frauenkirche
with donated money
2002: high water of the century lot of
smaller damages but quickly removed
2005: Frauenkirche - Dresdens landmark
completely rebuilt
5th Juni 2009: Obama as first president in
Dresden
Dresden‘s landmark –
Frauenkirche
The Highwater of the century
Culture & Sights
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One of worlds most important cities of art
and culture UNESCO world cultural
heritage from 2005 - 2009
A lot of modern and historic buildings
valueable collections of art often in
important buildings too
Music clubs, theatres and galleries
big events over the whole year
The castle of Dresden
The castle of Dresden
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Residence of saxon‘s electors and kings
(1547–1918)
One of the oldest buildings in the city
Totally damaged after bombing in 2.WW
Rebuilt in GDR
Contains two important museums:
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Cabinette of copper engraving
Green vault
Cabinette of copper engraving
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Oldest german museum for paintings,
printings and graphical art
lot of artworks lost trough allied bombing in
1945
500,000 pieces of art, but only parts exhibited
Famouse Artists: Albrecht Dürer, Hans
Holbein the younger, Rubens, Rembrandt
van Rijn, Michelangelo, Capsar David
Friedrich, Käthe Kollwitz
Green vault
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Collection of pieces of the
former royal treasure chamber
1723 founded c oldest museum
in world
4000 totally unique artworks
Sculpture: 64cm high, wood,
emerald,ruby, sapphire, topaz,
almandine, granat and gold
Other examples of very valueable
exponats
Bath of Diana
Golden coffee set
Dresden‘s green Diamant
The golden horseman
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oversized monumentof
August the strong wearing
roman armour and riding in
the direction of Poland
One of Dresdens landmarks
Firegolded before
restauration – now leaf gold
Cantilever bridge – Blue Wonder
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Loschwitzer Brücke
Built from 1891-1893
Second oldest bridge
280m long, 3500t weight
Called Wonder because
there is no pier in the
river and hoax in the
newspaper in 1935
Saved from controlled
demolition in 1945 by
two seperate acting
guys
The blue wonder seen from above
The Dresdner Zwinger
Saxon state opera house
Russian orthodox church
Regular events in Dresden
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Different big events and festival take place
all over the year
Music events international dixieland
festival, movie nights on riverside
District festivals with various backgrounds
Educational and scientific events long
night of sciences, night of museums
Big more commercial city festival
International Dixieland festival
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Since 1970 every year in spring
One of worlds most important Jazz and
Blues events
350 musicians and 500,000 visitors biggest cultural event in Saxony
Jazzmile moving through the city is for free
Rest of festival in spreaden over a lot of
bars, clubs, hotels and (open air) concert
halls
Jazzmile moving through Oldtown
Movie nights on riverside
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Since 1991 as open air cinema
Firstime only 10 days – nowadays 60days
Current and historic movies as well as
concerts of famouse music groups
5000 visitors a day
Screen: (32m x 16m) 448 m² Biggest
mobil movie screen
Movie nights on riverside
Bunte Republik Neustadt
(colorful republic of Neustadt)
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Historical: in 1990 inhabitants of
district Neustadt declared the
quarter as a micronation and
created their own goverment and
currency celebrated the start
with a big street festival (22th-24th
June)
In 1993 micronation stopped its
existence but the street festival still
take place
BRN nowadays
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Nearly every store, bar, facility and house
offers something for the festival
Dozens of special dishes and drinks offered
Live artists and DJs of all kinds of music
spreaten over all the streets
Attractions for children and adults 150,000 visitors each year
Non-stop partying and chilling out
BRN impressions
BRN impressions
BRN impressions
Dresdner Neustadt
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Neustadt is one of the oldest quarters cheap
to live there alternate culture scene
developed
175 gastronomy facilities biggest
concentration of restaurants, clubs, bars and
pubs in Germany centre of Dresdens nightlife
Special stores for musicians, artists and fashion
Other sights like the courtyard of arts
Alaunpark - the green oase: totally overgrowded
in spring and summer by people doing sports
there or just hanging out
Courtyard of Arts / Kunsthofpassage
Alaunpark – The green oase
Area arround Dresden
Arround Dresden there are a lot of sights
as well
• Different Castles, hiking areas, woods and
even mountain ranges
• Historic towns and resorts are next to
Dresden
• Very special: The Elbe sandstone
mountains
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The Elbe sandstone mountains
(Labské pískovce )
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Low mountain range mainly consisting out of
sandstone situated on the Elbe
Parts of it in Germany and Czech Republic saxon switzerland & bohemian switzerland
Nature reservat; very rich on shapes inside
tightest space always a change between
ranks, canyons and table mountains
Amazing area for hikers and climbers
Impressions of the Elbe sandstone
mountains
Impressions of the Elbe sandstone
mountains – The Lilienstein
My Sources
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http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresdens
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte_Dr
esdens
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%84u%C3
%9Fere_Neustadt
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbsandsteinge
birge
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