List of buildings in Dresden
In the history of the city of Dresden there have been several hundred thousand different individual structures over the centuries. This list of buildings in Dresden only presents a few examples. A detailed representation of the structures is not possible here. More can be found in the articles Dresden and on the categorization .
Sacred buildings
Profane structures
Cultural institutions
image | Surname | Construction year | architect | style | Facility |
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Semper Opera | 1977 to 1986 | Gottfried Semper | Neo-renaissance | Opera and music | |
Remarks: The Semper Opera House, which was destroyed in 1945, was reconstructed according to the original plans | |||||
Kennel | 1710 to 1733 (1847 to 1854) |
Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann ( Gottfried Semper ) |
Dresden Baroque ( Neo-Renaissance ) |
Museums and collections | |
Palace of Culture | 1966 to 1969 | Wolfgang Hänsch | Modern | Culture and Congress Center | |
Comments: The building bears the listed mural " The Path of the Red Flag " | |||||
Country house | 1770 to 1776 | - | Baroque | museum | |
Remarks: Original meeting place of the state estate; recently, controversial, supplemented by contemporary architecture | |||||
Albertinum | 1884 to 1887 | Carl Adolph Canzler | Neoclassicism | museum | |
Remarks: The old Dresden armory was replaced by a largely new museum building under King Albert | |||||
Japanese palace | 1715 (1727 to 1733) |
Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann | Late baroque / classicism | museum | |
Remarks: The name goes back to the Chinese- fashionable roof | |||||
German Hygiene Museum | 1927 to 1930 | Wilhelm Circle | Reform architecture | museum | |
Rundkino Dresden | 1972 | - | Modern | movie theater | |
Ufa crystal palace | 1997 to 1999 | Office Coop Himmelb (l) au | Deconstructivism | movie theater | |
SLUB Dresden | 1999 to 2002 | Laurids Ortner and Manfred Ortner | Postmodern | State Library |
Historical buildings
image | Surname | Construction year | architect | style |
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Georgenbau and gate | 1530 to 1535 | Bastian Kramer u. a. later | Renaissance | |
Remarks: Part of the Dresden Residenzschloss | ||||
Stable yard | 1586 to 1588 | Giovanni Maria Nosseni and Paul Buchner | Renaissance | |
Remarks: Part of the Dresden Residenzschloss | ||||
Prince procession | 1904 to 1907 | - | - | |
Remarks: Part of the Dresden Residenzschloss ; Meissen porcelain tiles |
State institutions
(Building with executive , legislative or judicial institutions of the Free State of Saxony)
image | Surname | Construction year | architect | style | Facility |
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Saxon State Parliament | 1928 to 1931 (1991 to 1993) | - ( Peter Kulka ) | Bauhaus ( Classical Modern ) | Landtag / Parliament | |
Comments: The old part of the house was built in the New Objectivity style by 1931 and was supplemented with quotes from Mies van der Rohe in a classic and modern way from 1991 to 1993 | |||||
Saxon State Chancellery | 1900 to 1904 | Heinrich Tscharmann u. a. | historicism | Government building | |
Main State Archive Dresden | 1912 to 1915 | Karl Ottomar Reichelt a . a. | - | Government archive | |
Higher Regional Court of Dresden | 1901 to 1906 | Paul Wallot | historicism | Justice building (originally Ständehaus ) | |
Log cabin | 1732 to 1737 | Zacharias Longuelune et al. a. | Classicist baroque | Various institutions in the country | |
Remarks: Located at the entrance to the Augustus Bridge, the building was originally a customs house |
Urban buildings
(Building for administrative and supply facilities as well as municipal political bodies of the city of Dresden)
The following is a purely exemplary list.
With regard to municipal administration, see the list of town halls in Dresden .
image | Surname | Construction year | architect | style | Facility |
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new town hall | 1905 to 1910 | Karl Roth et al. a. | - | City Council / City Administration | |
Comments: Reconstructed from 1948 onwards, plenary hall added from 1962 to 1965. The town hall tower is over 100 meters high (including the town hall man) the tallest structure in Dresden's old town | |||||
Dresden town house | 1922 to 1923 | Ludwig Wirth | expressionism | City Administration, City District Office Old Town; the only expressionist building in Dresden | |
Town hall Cotta | 1899 to 1901 | Reinhold Voretzsch | Historicism and Art Nouveau | City District Office Cotta | |
Striesen fire station | 1906 | Hans Erlwein a . a. | Art Nouveau | fire Department | |
Sparkassenhaus Dresden | 1914 | Hans Erlwein a . a. | Neo-baroque | Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden | |
Saloppe waterworks | 1871 to 1875 | Theodor Friedrich and Bernhard Salbach | - | Industrial water supply | |
Comments: Oldest waterworks in Dresden; put out of service |
Traffic structures
image | Surname | Construction year | architect | style | Facility |
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Dresden Central Station | 1892 to 1898 (2000 to 2008) | Arwed Rossbach u. a. ( Norman Foster ) | historicism | railway station | |
Remarks: The station building was renovated between 2000 and 2007 according to plans by Norman Foster and supplemented with contemporary additions | |||||
Dresden-Neustadt train station | 1898 to 1901 | - | historicism | railway station |
- See also: List of Elbe crossings in Dresden
Sculptures, sculptures and fountains
image | Surname | Construction year | Architect / sculptor | style | Commemoration / honor / purpose |
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Golden rider | 1732 to 1734 | Ludwig Wiedemann | Baroque | Elector Friedrich August I as King of Poland on the way to Warsaw | |
Cholera fountain | 1846 | Gottfried Semper / Franz Schwarz | Neo-Gothic | Preservation of Dresden from cholera | |
Dolphin fountain | 1846 | Johann Gottfried Knöffler or Pierre Coudray | Baroque | Decoration on the Brühl terrace | |
Moritz monument | 1555 | Hans Walther | Renaissance | Transition of the Electorate of Moritz in August 1553 | |
Artesian fountain on Albertplatz | 1906 | Hans Erlwein | historicism | Originally drinking water fountain | |
Fountain of Neptune | 1741 to 1744 | Zacharias Longuelune / Lorenzo Mattielli | Baroque | Fountain in the Palais Brühl-Marcolini |
Industrial buildings
image | Surname | Construction year | architect | style | Facility |
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Yenidze | 1908 to 1909 | Martin Hammitzsch | historicism | office building | |
Remarks: Built as a cigarette factory in the style of a mosque for advertising purposes. An office building after renovation. | |||||
United AG cigarette machine factory | 1910 | - | Art Nouveau | mechanical engineering | |
Jasmatzi cigarette factory | 1912 | William Lossow and Max Hans Kühne | historicism | Tobacco Factory | |
Dresden mill | 1912 to 1914 | William Lossow and Max Hans Kühne | Industrial architecture | Mill | |
Fluid machine plant Dresden | 1956 to 1957 | - | Modern | - | |
Transparent manufactory | 1999 to 2002 | Gunter Henn | Modern industrial architecture | Volkswagen automobile factory | |
Nossener Brücke thermal power station | 1995 | - | Modern industrial architecture | Thermal power station of DREWAG |
Business and office buildings
image | Surname | Construction year | architect | style | Facility |
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Fire insurance company | 1899 | Oswald Haene | Neo-baroque | office building | |
Skyscraper on Albertplatz | 1929 | Hermann Paulick | Modern | Office and commercial buildings | |
World Trade Center Dresden | 1993 to 1996 | Nietz Prasch & Siegl | Modern | Office and commercial buildings; Cultural institutions | |
Convention center | 2001 to 2004 | Storch Ehlers Partner Architects | Postmodern | Congress and event building |
Sports facilities
image | Surname | Construction year | architect | style | sport |
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Rudolf Harbig Stadium | 2007–2009 1951 (previous stadium) |
Beyer + Partner Architects | - | Football and athletics stadium (32,000 spectators) | |
Heinz Steyer Stadium | 1919 | - | - | Football and athletics stadium (24,000 spectators) | |
EnergieVerbund Arena sponsored by EnergieVerbund Dresden |
2005-2007 | - | - | Ice and ball sports hall (4012 spectators) | |
Ball Sports Arena Dresden | 2015-2017 | - | - | Ball sports hall (3000 spectators) | |
Margon Arena after sponsor Margonwasser |
1998 | - | - | Ball sports hall (3000 spectators) |