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Name for a current new development area above the Alaunpark in the border area between Äußere Neustadt and Albertstadt. According to the provider, “high-quality townhouses, stacked houses, townhouses” will be built, in other words, condominiums in multi-story residential buildings, and private homes primarily in terraced or group houses. The complex includes a shopping area on the ground floor, which includes, among other things, a large organic food market.

The project will be expanded to include a third construction phase in the next few years. Together with the already completed residential development and children's facilities around the Garrison Church as well as court and administrative buildings, mainly from the post-reunification period, an entire district close to the city center is being created here. A special advantage is the quiet apartment very close to the trendy district Äußere Neustadt.

The area is being designed by the Klettarchitekten office.

The ODC has a very high vacancy rate and is currently not very attractive. There is apparently a lack of buyers from the residential area on Reicker Strasse that was demolished a few years ago.

1. the former Orangerie "An der Herzogin Garten" (), built in 1841 by Otto von Wolframsdorf, was only partially recognisable as a ruin (street frontage to Ostra-Allee) from its destruction in the Second World War until recently. It was rebuilt in 2016/19 as a residential building, largely true to the original exterior, but a desired use for art and/or gastronomy could not be realised for economic reasons. ()

The newly renovated orangery garden is open to the public during the day.

2. Orangerie in the castles's park Pillnitz. ().

The best-known works in Dresden are the Jahn organ in the Versoehnungskirche, which was largely renovated in its original form until 2009, and the now heavily modified organ in the Annenkirche.

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The area could not be developed in its entirety at the time, as residential houses had already stood on Josephinenstrasse since 1650. It was not until 1996 to 1998 that a modern new building was added to replace these houses that were destroyed in 1945.

2. Official category from the Center concept of the state capital regarding the concentration of trade, services, cultural and social institutions. The 11 district centers (OTZ) follow the City center in the hierarchy and are supported by 24 centers close to home (Wohnnahe Zentren, WZ) followed.

Until the fall of the Berlin Wall there were two well-known GDR textile department stores on the corner of Konkordienstrasse: Kontex (Konsum) and Magnet (HO, pictured here).

Opposite of the "Zwinger" the office building "Offico" was established in 1993-95 after plans by Bernhard Winking. It closes directly to the building of the Dresdner Bank (in 1916 established as House of the Kaufmannschaft) on.

With the development and renovation of listed buildings opposite the main entrance to the Dresden Trade Fair, a location for unprecedented event concepts is being created on historical ground. The connection of spacious green areas, lake house, lake stage and the “Erlwein-Capitol” event hall. with 1,200 m² of usable space is unique in the region.

It was created in 2004 from the merger of Stadtsparkasse Dresden and Sparkasse Elbtal-Westlausitz. The latter was created in 2003 through the merger of the district savings banks of what were then Dresden's neighboring districts, Weißeritzkreis, Saxon Switzerland (Sparkasse Freital-Pirna) and Kamenz (Sparkasse Westlausitz).

The savings bank operates 101 branches and 51 self-service points.