To the west of Hafen-City in the narrower sense, which USD Immobilien GmbH wants to build, the company Dresden-Bau is planning the residential project Marina Garden. Both form an urban unity.

The focus will be on apartments that combine "life on the water with probably the most beautiful view of Dresden's city skyline." (Quote Wurff). Parts of the existing old harbor buildings in Neustadt Harbor are to be included and continue to be available for public use. Restaurants and shops are planned in these and partly in the ground floor zone of the residential buildings.

The Neustädter Hafen area adjacent to the city center is a valuable area for attractive living on the Elbe. In 2010, the master plan Leipziger Vorstadt - Neustädter Hafen was created, which dealt with the possible design of the area.

An office complex, a hotel and several apartment blocks have now been built on the site along Leipziger Straße and in the second row towards the Elbe. The investor is predominantly USD real estate (“Our beautiful Dresden” ).

Residential areas close to the city center, including district-related retail, are also planned north of Leipziger Strasse. However, this was contradicted by the establishment of a GLOBUS wholesale market with national significance on the site of the old Leipzig train station. Its visitor and delivery traffic would have significantly affected the quality of living. The corresponding plans are now off the table.

South of the street is the goods station Friedrichstadt situated with the consignment places called "rolling road" and "CarGoTram" (see also special slide train stations).

The residential buildings were initially built with flat roofs. They are equally inspired by Bauhaus and garden city ideas and are associated with the “New Objectivity”. assigned. The buildings built after 1933 were designed with hipped roofs under pressure from the new Nazi rulers.

A comprehensive renovation took place around 1997.

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On 10.11.2006 the solemn inauguration of the renovated but still not completely finished station in the presence of Sir Norman Foster. The remaining work on the south and north facades was not yet completed in 2010, and only some of the shops in the shopping arcades opened in 2013.

The Teflon roof that was installed at the time is currently being renovated again (2022/23).

It should last 50 years - the chic Teflon roof of Dresden Central Station. But the 90 million dollar construction by “star architect” Sir Norman Foster didn’t last 20 years. After the first cracks appeared in the winter of 2009/10, it became increasingly holey.

The Main State Archives was founded as an institution in 1834 to house the old registers of authorities that were dissolved in the course of the state reform of 1831.

In 1949/52 it was subordinated to the State Archives Administration of the GDR as the "State Main Archive Dresden", and from 1965 as the "Staatsarchiv Dresden". In 1993 the name was renamed “Sächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv”. With the founding of the Saxon State Archives in 2005, the Main State Archives became an office of the same.

Two significant buildings, destroyed in the last war, do not exist anymore: the baroque City Hall of the New Town, from which only the vaults remain, which were used as a restaurant (currently closed) and the church St.Franziskus Xaverius (blown up in 1957) on the North east end next to the Market Hall.

Step by step the large WBS-70-slab's blocks are being redeveloped. By sepaerating the shop areas into rather small shops and the build of a long promised Parking house on the street Metzer Straße the dealer and shopkeeper of the Market Hall and Hauptstraße are hoping for a revaluationof the whole area.

In the southern part it is planned to tear down one of the WBS-70-blocks and on its place a futuristic building construction by Daniel Liebeskind is planned.

The populations is divided over the latest plans for this building as "cultural department store" and later as a so-called "children's worlds".

In 2002 a redesign of the open space on the North part took place. Main attraction is now a "forest of fountains" called water games, much enjoyed by children running through. In this part stands also statue Schillerdenkmal. A reconstruction of the middle part took place in 2003, the South part is currently under construction.

On the 3rd of October 2002 the so called artist passages (Kunsthandwerkerpassagen) were open in the newly decorated buildings on the street Hauptstraße 9 bis 19.

In popular parlance, the building is often referred to as the Advanta bar after the investor.

The building was initially intended as an extension of the taschenberghotel, then as an office building, and later as an independent hotel. All of these plans failed, and in the meantime most of the shops and restaurants, including the initially legendary "Busmann's Brazil", were empty and the renovation work was on hold for a long time.

Since the building was completely renovated by the denkmalneu group of companies (spring 2015 - spring 2016), the building has officially been called The Living House. Since the renovation there has been a "beach bar" on the top floor with a view of the Zwinger from the terrace.

According to initial plans for the post-reunification period, it was to be demolished. During the flood in 2002, the basement and ground floor rooms were severely damaged; the renovation, including the external facilities and the entire building, took around 1½ years Building facade. 4,000 m² of windows and 6,000 m² of outdoor space have made the house a modern landmark in the state capital again since December 2003.

In summer, an art, antique and flea market organized by JK Events and the Sächsische Zeitung takes place in the parking lot behind the Press House every Saturday and on the first Sunday of the month.

The first vineyard house was built around 1650
on the site, after the change of ownership in 1745 the building was expanded into a manor house. From 1885 the property was owned by the eponymous Rudolf Curt Steinbach.

The Hauptmann Radebeul archive was located here from 1961 to 1980, and today it houses the Haus Steinbach winery.

The first vineyard house was built around 1650
on the site, after the change of ownership in 1745 the building was expanded into a manor house. From 1885 the property was owned by the eponymous Rudolf Curt Steinbach.

From 1961 to 1980, the Hauptmann Archive Radebeul was located here; today it houses the Haus Steinbach Winery.

In the GDR, the Heidemühle became a company holiday home, for which a ward and a small outdoor swimming pool were built. The restaurant operated until 1995.

In 1998, a small rustic tavern with a beer garden was built on the opposite side of the street from the horse stable built in 1892.

The church in the reform style (with expressionist style elements inside) was designed to be simpler than originally planned due to the interruption in construction. The tower, which is only 32 m high, dominates the overall appearance of the church.

The stadium was called; initially “Stadium at the Ostragehege of Dresdner SC” and was renamed in the 1950s after the communist football player Heinz Steyer, who was executed in 1944.

The clinic was closed in 2009, staff and facilities are taken over by the Krankenhaus Friedrichstadt and incorporated there.

A large portion serves as a local recreation area, which connects the Junge Heide with the Dresdner Heide connects. Two renovated heaps offer excellent views.

Before 1945, the Hellerschänke was one of the most popular excursion destinations in the north of Dresden. The attraction was not only the large, shady guest garden for up to 5,000 guests, but also the attached wine cellar. In 1956 the inn was closed due to dilapidation and was demolished in 1969; some of the outbuildings were still used by the Hellerauer LPG.

The colored entrance portal from 1688, which was probably made by Permoser, has been preserved and has been located at the back of the Sekundogenitur since 1973.

Since 2012 it has been
back at its historic location in Niedersedlitz. Its place was replaced at the beginning of 2013 by the figure group "Mother with Children" by the sculptor Ernst Hermann Grämer.

In 1920 the park was created with paths. The fairytale fountain “Brother and Sister” is located in the facility, which was renovated in 1991.

Until the 1979s, the spacious three-sided farmstead was almost completely preserved, after which it was used for the benefit of the craftsman's farm of today's railway worker Housing cooperative partially demolished, the rest fell into disrepair. After the fall of the Wall, the manor house was acquired and extensively renovated by the architects Schumann and Kurth. Today there is a restaurant here that is worth seeing.

Building plans recently acquired from the Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden show that in 1927 it was not a high-rise building, but a typical local corner development with commercial and residential use in five areas ;nf bullets were planned.

According to press reports in 2006, the high-rise building was to be converted into a luxury hotel with 240 rooms; around a year later, it was announced that it would be converted into a student residence. Shops should move into the ground floor. Later, it was also planned to use it as a “citizen center” with galleries, studios and rooms for social and sporting purposes and for the district library. In 2009 the building was bricked up.

In 2012, Simmel AG took over the high-rise and renovated it in 2014/2015, but as an office building with a shopping center. The original side wings were demolished and a Simmel AG shopping center was built in the new buildings added to the side with a large grocery store (EDEKA partner), ALDI, Rossmann, Medimax and smaller restaurants and bars ;the. A special feature was a fast food restaurant in the style of American subways.

The GDR Museum, which was taken over by Peter Simmel, the owner of the complex, Zeitreise initially moved in here, but it closed in 2023.

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Everything that is “baroque” or other block edge developments or even towers over the Hausmannsturm of the king who abdicated in 1918, is extremely suspicious for many - but not all - Dresdeners.

Except for the so-called Hochhaus on Albertplatz and the SZ-Hochhaus , both just around 12 floors, there are only other high-rise buildings from the GDR era on the left, all of the same 15- to 17-story basic type.

A third building in this category, the so-called "Blue House" of the then University of Education on Albertstrasse, built in 1970, was demolished again in 2012.

In addition to the planned goal situation with four such buildings at Wiener Platz, there are others along Grunaer Strasse and Stübelallee, still mostly as groups of 2 or 3 in Gorbitz, Johannstadt , Gruna, Leuben, Großschachwitz , on Parkstrasse and Bergstrasse and as a group of 5 or 6 on Zelleschen Weg and in Zschertnitz. After the fall of the Wall, the tower of the WTC was built, but it was not allowed to have its planned height and therefore appears somewhat disproportionate and truncated. In the last few years, just two new, low high-rise buildings have been built: a residential building near Straßburger Platz and the SachsenEnergie'>SachsenEnergie south of the Hauptbahnhof.

1937 the privately led conservatoire urban and firmiert under "conservatoire of the state capital Dresden - academy for music and theatre". 1945 destroyed, in the same year instruction in a mansion is already taken up again. 1959 name "Carl Maria von Weber" are lent to the university of music, national since 1952.

Behind that main building at the place Wettiner Platz, an earlier High School, develops until 2008 a new building with sample hall, a sample stage and the university library. Thus the training taking place so far at different locations is to be concentrated.

The draft of the office Brenner&Partner Stuttgart is realized, first winner of the architectural competition.

The main building on the square Friedrich-Liszt-Platz was built in 1954-60 by Richard Paulick and Friedrich Wilhelm Wurm and shows typical style elements of the Stalin-era. The basements are covered with sand stone and the upper floors with ceramic tiles.

In addition to the campus at Hauptbahnhof, there is also a smaller campus of the Agriculture/Land Conservation Department in Pillnitz HTW.

In 2004/06, the new library building was built on Andreas-Schubert-Straße according to plans by ReimarHerbst.Architekten. The concept of the facade follows the shape of the bookshelf and the books inside. A so-called piazza was created between the lecture hall building, extension and library. The "Library Square" forms the transition from the street space between the buildings to the two courtyards. The main entrance to the library is via outside stairs from this square, which is intended to become a new, attractive meeting point for students, university employees and external users.

Many culture-historical buildings in the city centre suffer large damage particularly by flow of the cellars , so the Semperoper, the Picture gallery, the Schauspielhaus, the federal state parliament and the two historical hotel buildings Taschenbergpalais and Bellevue. Dozens of restaurants and business of the old part of town as well as several underground parkings are completely flooded, in the populated areas of thousands of dwellings, shops, offices and crafts enterprises.

In contrast to 2002, however, there were no devastating flash floods in the tributaries from the Osterzgebirge, both people and authorities were better prepared. The flood protection structures built since 2002 prevented major damage to the old town. However, Laubegast, Zschieren and the two were flooded Cossebauder districts Ober- and Niedergohlis.

In some places, protests by individual residents prevented the construction of effective flood protection walls; according to the media, there has already been some rethinking in this regard.

The Landgasthof Hofewiese was built around 1877 as a popular excursion destination. The restaurant was privately owned until 1960, after which it was run by the HO (state trade organization). It was closed in 1985 and the building fell into disrepair.

After a dispute between the city of Dresden and the then still independent municipality of Langebruck, the property located in the Dresdner Heide district of Dresden became the property of the municipality of Langebruck in 1992 and was taken over by it privately leased. The restaurant, which opened in 1993, had to be closed again in 2000 due to sewage problems. All subsequent renovation plans have so far been unsuccessful in reopening the traditional excursion restaurant.

Since Pentecost 2016, the Hofewiese has had a new operator
(Holger Zastrow) and has reopened as a summer restaurant with a beer garden and a large sunny meadow, initially only on weekends and public holidays.

The house, which was destroyed in 1945, was later demolished and only rebuilt in 2010/11 on the previously vacant area as part of the castle hotel.

The Hofkirche has been a co-cathedral since 1964, and with the relocation of the bishopric from Bautzen to Dresden, it has been the cathedral of the Dresden-Meißen diocese since 1980.

The little restaurant called "Italienische Dörfchen" reminds of the Italian builders.

The cathedral is home to the Dresden Kapellknaben (), The choir's task is to provide music for the holy masses at the Dresden Hofkirche. Hörproben Kapellknaben Hörprobe

The “Museum Hofmühle Dresden” is a reminder of the past of the now disused industrial ensemble..

The building complex today includes, among other things: an organic market, offices and apartments on Weißeritz as well as in the former factory owner's villa.

After 1885, Walther Stechow renovated it in the Neo-Renaissance style; later it was the place of work of the natural scientist Prof. Dr. Eberhard Stechow.

From 1960-2003, the puppet theater collection was located here, which can now be admired in the Museum for Folk Art in Dresden Jägerhof.

On special occasions such as Museum Day, the interior of today's private house, which is worth seeing, can be viewed.

1946 to 1993 was called the square Christian-Beham-Platz. In 2011, a renovation based on the historical model was completed.

In 2003 the 9.50 m high tower was comprehensively reorganized and solemnly handed over to the public on the 19th Dec 2003. Also the below the tower lying so called Small Bastei with view into the valley was reconstructed in a nature and monumant protecting way.

Next to the tower, in a new building for sheltered living is a Restaurant (there was an inn here on and off from 1862), nearby an observatory, built in the 1960's

This windmill was the only one in operation in the Eastern Ore Mountains area for 200 years. It was last in operation in 1990. Today it is a technical monument, which can also be visited with a guided tour upon request.

was originally part of the Bautzner Strasse, from 1823 it was known as Altbautzner Strasse. Since 1839 it has had its current name after the electoral Holzhof, which was located near the Prießnitz estuary. from 1685 to 1871 ;dung was located. The Diakonsissen Hospital is located on Holzhofgasse. There are also buildings from a wide variety of eras and styles.

Demolished after reunification to make way for a larger hotel that was never built, the square was built on in 2006 with a featureless Lidl store.

The middle building is the last preserved building of what used to be one of the most beautiful row of houses in baroque style, which was destroyed in 1950 owing the damage during the war. Citizen protest prevented the destruction of this building in favour of the hotel and achieved that it was included in the new design, which was adapted to the original height. On the side of the river Elbe is a beautiful garden with the last classizistic garden house. Looking across the river banks called Elbwiesen one can enjoy the famous "Canaletto view" over the Old Town.

Since April 2004 one has this view from the new beer garden "Elbsegler".

2. Until 1945 a elegant hotel with 160 rooms and 200 beds was located opposite the Old Town river side, called Altstädter Ufer with a "beautiful Elbe-terrace".

Based on the historical model, Baywobau built a four-star hotel made of reinforced concrete, which incorporated the house of the former Salomonisapotheke.

was the topping-out ceremony of the Steigenberger Hotel, it was opened . The Hotel de Saxe returned to the cityscape 117 years after it was demolished.

The building was one of the good Dresden hotels (including Chopin and Dostoyevsky). In 1813 it was expanded to include a neighboring house with four axes in an idiosyncratic architectural style. The building has no ornamentation whatsoever. However, it was idiosyncratic and knew how to ideally carry out the curve from Augustusstrasse to Neumarkt with the type of pilaster strips and risalits in smooth, continuous lines. Destroyed in 1945 and later demolished, it was rebuilt in 2005/06 with a historic facade Opened at the end of 2006 as the QF Hotel Dresden as part of the Quarters at the Frauenkirche.

A baroque building was built here between 1706 and 1716 as the Thiermannscher Hof. This was converted into a representative neo-renaissance building in 1837 and known as the “Hotel Stadt Leipzig”. reopened. The building has been empty since 1985.

In 2014/15, the now dilapidated complex was to be renovated into the Heinrichhöfe residential complex, and at the same time a new building was to be built in the courtyard. However, construction will still take place in 2023.

On the three-axis central projection, the mirror fields were covered with fine rococo decoration, and the curved corner bay windows were among the most beautiful in Dresden. After being destroyed in 1760 and 1849, it was restored in a simplified manner with a gable roof.

The building was destroyed in 1945 and the ruins were demolished a short time later. Because the post-war development on Wilsdruffer Strasse was too close, reconstruction seemed impossible for a long time, so according to more recent plans, the property should first be planted with a group of trees.
There are now plans to shorten the house by a few axes.

Later there were plans to shorten the house by a few axes. Since 2018, a shift of a few meters to the northeast has been suggested, to which the previously critical GHND fought through.