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still not finished. After the catastrophic bombing in 1945,
the GDR government left a lot of the ruins as a memory
of the war or just because they were out of money. But
when Germany was unified again in 1989, the city chose
to rebuild the glorious baroque scene again. So parts of
the Altstadt are still a construction site today. That means that the SCHLOSS (Royal Castle) was the center of
power in the Middle Ages and during the days of the Saxon electors, but it will only be complete in 2013. Some
modern elements are already integrated, like the transHIGHLIGHT
parent rhombi-roof in the inner court. Today it‘s home of
famous exhibitions like the Turkish chamber, the copper
THE PRINCE‘S TREASURIES
(Historical Green Vault: Open from 10:00 to 19:00, closed engraving cabinet and the Green Vaults ( ).
on Tue, o12 / no rebates; New Green Vault: Open from
WORLD‘S BIGGEST PORCELAIN PICTURE
10:00 to 18:00, closed on Tue, o6 / o3,50 with student
card) Are you into royal glamour? Then the new opened Every story in Dresden‘s old town starts with the same
HISTORICAL GREEN VAULT is your thing: a universal art- guy... One day, August the Strong decided that he wanted
work, combining 3,100 gems and meaty architecture, to have more more more, and he locked up the alchejust as the royal treasury looked like! The trouble is, mist Böttger to look for the formula for making gold. But
you‘re not the only one who will be soaking in the gla- instead of gold, the prisoner accidentally found the formour, especially on summer days. You should book your mula for Meissner porcelain, the first European porcelain
tickets in advance so you don‘t wait in line hoping to get that did not have to be imported from Asia. The FÜRSone of the limited 250 available tickets they sell every TENZUG is a great example of it, and it‘s the biggest porday in the castle. If you don‘t want to go to all the effort, celain wall piece in the world. The 101 meter-long comic
the NEW GREEN VAULT shows the already known parts strip shows you all Saxon rulers between 1127 and 1904
of the collection without any waiting lines. You will see together with their royal household. You see the dresses
some surprising curios like the over 420 year old cherry get more modern from the middle ages (on the left) to
stone with 185 engraved faces or Dresden‘s green dia- modern times (on the right).
mond, which is green because of its natural radioactiviBAROQUE PROMENADE
ty; and it‘s the biggest of this kind of rare stones in the
Tourist guides call the BRÜHLSCHE TERRASSE the ‚Balworld! Definitely one of the classics of a Dresden visit.
cony of Europe‘, and indeed the 500m long stretch is
THE CASTLE
quite a spectacular baroque experience. It is situated on
(Open April to November from 10:00 to 18:00, closed on top of the old renaissance fort, which is the oldest part
Tue, o3 / o2 with student card for the tower) Dresden is of the town. The terrace is also the home of the Acadegreat architect Semper rediscovered the architectural
pearl (some say it really looks like a wedding cake) and
completed the Elbe-facing side of the building. Still later,
an already long-planned glockenspiel with 40 bells made of Meissen porcelain was installed on the east side.
Hitting bells of porcelain sounds like a bad idea, but the
thing works and it plays different melodies depending on
the season. Today the Zwinger shelters museums like the
old masters gallery ( ) and the porcelain collection.
Lotte, the sad-looking dog: “In the backyards of Dresden-Neustadt you might come
across a real good cat-fight.”
Adrian (22, bartender): „With good drinks,
great bands and a lot of friendliness, the
Neustadt offers the best opportunities for a
long and happy night. And if you’re lucky, you
might catch one of the spontaneaous jam
sessions on Görlitzer Straße with one of our
guitar heroes.”
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BEER GARDEN BIKE TRIP
You start right in the old town with a beer in the nice
looking RADEBERGER SPEZIALAUSSCHANK restaurant
directly at the river (beer garden on the roof). Now follow
the river along the bike path. You will smell the beer and
grilled food after 10 minutes from the JOHANNSTÄDTER
BEER GARDEN. Take a beer. On hot days you should think
about taking the ferry to the shadowy Neustadt quarter
(o1,50). On the other side of the river you‘ll see the three
beautiful Elbe Castles and their vineyards. Now you reach
Germany‘s greenest residential area next to the bridge.
Here you can take a rest in the SCHILLERGARTEN restaurant where the famous writer Schiller drank beer in 1785.
Now you will see the BLAUES WUNDER Bridge. This ‚Blue
Wonder‘ is the oldest frame bridge in Europe. Germans
call somebody, who is drunk ‚blau‘ so the bridge might
get a totally different meaning for you. You can explore
the quarter on the other riverside and get back the same
way. Make sure the police don‘t stop you because there
are only 0,8 per mill allowed in Germany.
Dresden appears to be extremely international! But you
should make sure that you have the necessary petty
cash on you! If you just want to take a walk and have
a look, visit the goose-snatcher fountain from the 19th
century. The goose-snatcher playing the bagpipe depicts
a student who supplements his income in his own way.
Fittingly, the restaurant ‚Gänsedieb‘ offers Saxon and international cuisine (daily from 11:00 to midnight).
STUDENTS CLUB
(Daily from 19:00) Well, this looks like a rather big entrance for a student club. That‘s because the entry under
the Brühlsche Terrasse is actually an old cannon gate
through which the heavy machinery was rolled to protect
the fort in the old days. Anyway,
Stü BÄRENZWINGER is an
institution, well-known by generations
of students ever
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since the late 1960s. The club offerselallmultifaceted proGLASSY TRANSPARENT CARFACTORY
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gram the whole week long: free playing edays with table (Mon to SunCofrom 8:00 to 20:00, guided English tour (75
me in summer also at 12:00, o4 / o2 with
football, concerts, live football on a big screen and the minutes) at 15:00,
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most important thing: cheap food.
student card, makeiuassreservation from the hostel first or
call yourselve 01805/tr896268)
The GLÄSERNE MANUaß
NEW SYNAGOGUE
FAKTUR (‚glass factory‘) isea modern production site of
Jews have been living in Dresden since its foundation the German Volkswagen flag ship car, the Phaeton. You
in 1206. They were persecuted around 1400 as causers can watch the production of cars live on a guided tour.
of pest epidemics. But with August the Strong ( ), the The architecture of the construction area is linear and
first Jewish community was establish and counted 5,400 clear, but the visitor‘s area is more organic and round.
Comeniusmembers around 1900. In 1942 Jews were deported to The building created
a lot of disputes and protests: aniconcentration camps in Theresienstadt or Riga from the mal liberationists wereplatz
afraid that birds would fly against
Neustadt Station. In January 1945 there were only 174 the glass façade and traditionalist architects criticized
Jews left in Dresden. After the war, Jews migrated to the disharmony of the modern building so nearby the old
Dresden again and recently built up a new community town. Prices for a Phaeton start at o65,100... Something
and established the NEUE SYNAGOGE. The very modern for the boys who love cars.
building looks like a cube, rotated on itself and made of
sandstone-colored concrete without any windows. On
BAROQUE GARDEN
the Portal you will see the old Star of David, which was Childhood nostalgia! A fun way to visit the GROSSER
rescued in the Night of broken glass (an organized fire GARTEN. The park has a mini train which runs on a 6 km
attack by the Nazis throughout Germany) by the fireman round trip track (o4 / o2 with student card). The whoAlfred Neugebauer from the old Semper-synagogue and le system is run mostly by children in train personnel
who hid it in his loft. On this night firemen were not allo- costumes. The ‚Pionier Eisenbahn‘ was already very
wed to stop the fire, merely protect the surrounding hou- popular in the communist times when all the kids were
ses; and the Jewish community was then ordered to pay raised to dream of a career as engine drivers. On the
for cleaning up the ruins. There is a Jewish cafe ‚Scho- mini train you pass the most important attractions in
schana‘ where you can get an impression of delicious the leisure park, like the zoo and the lake with the row
Jewish food like Mazzeknödelsoup or Rugelach (Sun to boats. Afterwards there is plenty of space to relax, play
Thu from 12:00 to 18:00).
Frisbee, skate and to spend a lazy day at the baroque
pleasure palace, the puppet theatre or the open air conINTERNATIONAL BOOKSTORE
cert venue.
(Mon to Sat from 10:00 to 20:00) THALIA = books in
HIGHLIGHT
English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Russian and
Turkish and travel guides for everywhere. The biggest
MUSEUM OF MAN
selection in town.
(Tue to Sun from 10:00 to 18:00, o7 / o3 with student
card, ticket valid for two sequential days, free entrance
HIGHLIGHT
on Fri from 15:00) Probably, half of the tourists in the
FAMOUS CHRISTMAS MARKET
HYGIENEMUSEUM expected a museum about toilet paHo ho ho. Christmas is a v*e*r*y b*i*g t*h*i*n*g in Ger- per. It‘s not. It’s a museum about the human body and
many, with all the Christmas trees, Christmas pyramids psyche, and allows you to interact with all senses. One
and general Christmas kitsch you can dream of. So ima- of the fun exhibitions in the past was about ‚work‘, when
gine what it‘s like on the oldest Christmas market in Ger- you could watch an aged care work robot. The current
many: the STRIEZELMARKT (first mentioned in the year exhibition is called ‚what is beautiful?‘. If you have so1434). More regional handicrafts, a bigger Christmas me time, you shouldn‘t miss a visit here. The texts are
tree, a bigger Christmas pyramid and a fairy tale garden. in English too.
It is hugely crowded but remains a real German experience. You should warm yourself up with the typical drink
THE (SHOPPING) ZONE
of course: hot Glühwein. Drink, drank, drunk. Ho, ho, ho. This shopping street built in the 19th century connects
the main station with the Altmarkt. Back then, the tram
THE BOY‘S CHOIR
used to go here but since the 1970s it has been a pe(Panorama from the tower is open from 10:00 to 18:00, destrian zone. The 700m promenade is an important
Sun from 12:00, o2,50) You missed the Wiener Sänger- example of Eastern German architecture, the so-called
knaben when you were in Vienna? Here‘s your second ‚international style‘ (strange name in a time when almost
chance: Sunday mornings at the service of 9:30. The nobody was allowed to travel to other countries). The laKreuzchor in the KREUZKIRCHE consists of 150 boys test attraction on PRAGER STRASSE is the Centrum Gaaged 9 to 19 from Dresden and the surrounding region. lerie, the new mall containing Dresden‘s first Starbuck‘s
The kids have to leave the choir when their voice breaks ever! You would not believe for how long people queued
in puberty (eh... and some of them are 19?). The interior on the opening day! So if you do not necessarily want to
of this church was destroyed by a fire five times already, check out all the single stores, get yourself some real
and now the interior has been left plain and minimal in American grande Caramel Macchiato, sit down by the
remembrance the war. It‘s a nice contrast if you‘ve just trick fountains and watch people shop and shop and
come from the Frauenkirche ( ).
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call it fondly the lemon squeezer. It is also the home of
the Lipsiusbau, which turned into a great alternative
contemporary art spot next to the Albertinum, the new
museum for modern art ( ). At the end of the walk, go
on a quest for the legendary thumbprint of the famous
king August the Strong (somewhere on the handrail of
the balustrade) and find out how strong he was! Well, at
least that’s what our parents used to tell us about this
handprint when we were little kids.
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Tourist heaven! Baroque churches and
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August the Strong‘s court was a busy place with all those
parties, shooting games and horse tournaments. If you were
in love, the main courts were not the place for smooching.
That‘s probably why the NYMPH BATH fountain is a little bit
THE PRINCE‘S AMOURY COLLECTION
hidden. Even today, most tourist groups race through the
(Tue to Sun from 10:00 to 18:00, o3 / o2 with student Zwinger without noticing the little piece of paradise created
card, free if you have a ticket from the Alte Meister Gal- by the nymphs and dolphins playing amorously in the cold
lery ( ). The RÜSTKAMMER makes you think back to and drippy fountain and rills. Kissy kiss kiss?!
August the Strong‘s time of chevalier tournaments, hunts
HIGHLIGHT
and courtly festivals. With 10,000 knives, guns and harnesses it is one the most valuable weapon and costume
BAROQUE FAIRGROUND
collections in the world. Check the horse‘s armor – these If you have money today, the style is to live as discreetly
tournaments were no playtime. The Rüstkammer is not as possible in a minimalist house with design furniture. It
a must, but it‘s a good alternative to the expensive and was not like that in the baroque time. August the Strong
overcrowded Green Vault treasury in the castle ( ). And was rich, and he had to show it off. Look at the bomyour eyes will hurt just as after staring at all that gold, bastic stairs in the ZWINGER for example: just too big for
ivory and jewelry.
normal feet. This fairground complex was meant by the
ruler as a wedding present for his son and Maria-JoseWORLD FAMOUS PAINTINGS
pha, the daughter of the Spanish emperor. Unfortunately,
(Daily from 10:00 to 18:00, closed on Mon, o10 / o7,50 August‘s new daughter-in-law was a strict catholic, and
with a student card, ticket also includes the entrance she let the rococo showpiece go to ruin because all the
to the Armory next door) If you have time for only one space was never used or cleaned. 100 years later the
Beatrix (27, mom): „If you like to groove
listening to electronic music and if you like to
see the dark creatures of this town you’ll be
pretty right on Straße E ( ).“
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old-fashioned museum, the ALTE MEISTER GALERIE (Old
Masters Gallery) should be it. Don‘t try to run through this
one in half an hour - there are just too many oil paintings
around. Plan to spend around half a day there. The museum was established in 1728 by August the Strong and
his son, and it holds a spectacular collection of German,
Italian, Spainish and Dutch paintings. The Dresdeners are
very proud of the famous Sixtine Madonna from Raffael,
Liotard‘s Chocolate-Girl and Giorgione‘s Dormand Venus.
And of course you will find a couple of hundred oil paintings with Jesuses, Marias and angels of all kinds.
Alex (24, musician): „The people of Dresden are very friendly, funny, and they give you
a hand when you need one. I could imagine
that this has something to do with our great
and warm climate. That’s why in and around
Dresden, you’ll find a lot of really good wine.”
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Well, you know what an opera looks like. The pompous
interior of the SEMPEROPER is rich in stucco, ceiling fresco and candleholders. The building was named after the
architect Gottfried Semper, but it burned down only 30
years after it was built, to be rebuilt by Semper’s son in
1878. It got ruined again in World War II and the building
you see today was finished no earlier than 1985! You can
go for a guided tour or even better, go for a show. Tickets
should be bought well in advance and are very pricy (info
and sales in the Schinkelwache building on Theaterplatz)
but you can also go there every evening and try to negotiate with the people who have extra tickets. Tickets get
cheaper as the start of the show approaches, and you
might get lucky enough to spend a cheap, great night
between golden-framed mirrors and red carpets.
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➽ Check flyers and ask people at Drop Out Records and the
Hol-Fix Spätshop on the corner of Görlitzer- and Louisenstraße (close to ).
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➽ Check www.banq.de, www.dresden-nightlife.de or
www.dresdner.nu/timer. Sorry also in German.
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➽ Free blue ‚Dresdner‘ magazine in shops, cinemas or bars. It‘s
in German but you can see where the parties and concerts are.
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➽ Whenever you hear somebody say „Nu“,
don‘t think they are disagreeing. Quite
the contrary- „Nu“ is the Dresden version
of „Yes“ or „Ja“ in German. And yes, „Nu“
sounds very similar to „No“ or „Nein“ in German. If you think this is a bit confusing, wait
until you get confronted with „Nu Nu“ for
„Yes, sure“ or „Na Nu“ for „I know“. Got it?
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➽ Forget souvenir shops. Our typical Meissen porcelain is beautiful, expensive, and
kitschy enough to top any magnet or Merkel
bobble-head... But who the hell do you want
to give porcelain to anyway? Just go to a supermarket and look for typical old-fashioned
East-German products that people in the
West of Germany still hardly know: Bautzner
Senf (mustard), Bambina or Knusperflocken
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➽ Hurray for Dresden! We have the oldest
suspension bridge in Europe, the biggest
fleet of steamboats, the biggest porcelain
artwork on a wall and the oldest mountain
cableway! We also invented the teabag, toothpaste, the wonder bra, shoe polish in a tube, the beer mat, milk chocolate (even before
the Swiss), the reflex camera and ‚Leibchen‘,
the first undershirt... Isn‘t that a little bit too
much for such a small town?
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➽ Do older East- Germans seem to be harsh
and unfriendly when you ask them for directions? Well it‘s no wonder; they don‘t understand you! Most people over 40 learned only
Russian at school. They didn‘t need English
to talk to their communist fellows in east Europe. Try getting your point across with your
hands and feet or snag somebody younger
to pop your questions to.
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INNERE NEUSTADT
Not much to see,
except the statue
of the Golden Rider.
Mainly a shopping
area, with some
nice cobblestone
side streets and
baroque houses.
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➽ Complain! The Neustadt area is known
to be the most political and critical part of
town. After the fall of the Wall in 1989, the
free spirit rose high, and even today Neustädter still love demonstrating. It can be
about anything, even new traffic lights (like
on the corner of Lousienstraße and Görlitzerstraße). The city council put them there,
but people think it‘s just a waste of money
on small street corners. So everybody complains and crosses the street no matter which
colour the lights show.
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➽ Jump! There is only one thing more dangerous than a Neustädter on a bike, and
that‘s a Neustädter kid on a bike. This area
has one of the highest childbirth rates in the
whole of Germany. And don‘t even think of
messing with their playgrounds.
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➽ Buy your drinks in time. On Friday and
Saturday the Spätshops (night shops) in the
Neustadt area are not allowed to sell alcohol
after 22:00, and they really stick to the rules.
Sorry. However, during the week, we all get
cheap bottles till 02:00. Now join us on our
second favourite pastime: street sitting and
people watching. Surely the best way to make friends in Dresden.
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➽ Drink local beer. Dresden and its hinterland is a stronghold of breweries. ‚Feldschlösschen‘, ‚Radeberger‘ and ‚Freiberger‘
beer of the bigger companies here are good
in taste, but the beer of the smaller breweries like ‚Waldschlösschen‘, ‚Brauhaus
Watzke‘ or the good organic beer named
‚Lenin‘s‘ are even more delightful. The best
place to try Lenin‘s beer on a cold or rainy
day is the Bautzner Tor ( ).
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➽ Learn the basics. N°1. Elector August the
Strong (1670-1733) is the guy who made
the old town look the way it does. Without
him, Dresden would still be a village. N°2. On
the night of February 13th 1945, the Allied
Forces bombed the historical old town to
ruins. Between the 13th and 15th of February, ca. 25,000 people died, most of them
civilians. N°3. After the war, Dresden became part of East Germany (GDR or the German Democratic Republic). The communist
government kept some of the ruins as a memory of the terrible war (and because of the
lack of money to restore them). N°4. In 1989
the city came to new life. People painted
flashy colours all over the gray history, and
a lot of the ruins were rebuilt to look historic again. Even today the Altstadt is partly a
construction site.
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➽ Take a break. Dresden is cosy and easygoing, much more so than Prague or Berlin.
For these reasons other Germans call us Kaffee- Sachsen (coffee-Saxons). It describes our
favorite activity: drinking coffee and eating
a piece of cake, but moreover
it‘s become a synonym of our
sociability. So buy yourself
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and take a downtime.
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➽ Swim! In most European cities you would
have to boil the river water first before going
into it, but the Elbe is actually clean enough
to take a dive. Well, at least if there isn‘t any
floodwater. In that case, wave to the unopened bag of sauerkraut which passes by.
(chocolates), Fassbrause (lemonade), Dresden Stollen (christmas cake), F6 (cigarettes
that usually have the Dresden skyline on the
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has the museums and the baroque architecture, but the fun is going on in the Neustadt
area north of the Elbe River. Some Neustadt
people only cross the river to the Altstadt not
more then five times per year because their
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(Church of Our Lady). First it was bombed and totally
burnt out during the night of February 13th 1945. Then
it was left as a ruin, becoming a memorial against war
in the GDR times. After the reunification and many discussions about a reconstruction, we decided to rebuild
the church with much help from donations. Since much
of the money came from the former British enemies, it
is now a symbol of conciliation between the countries
which were at war 65 years ago. But then the stones
in the church began to sweat because of the heat of
too many visitors. We had to fit a big air conditioner in
there. And then there were the colours. The baby blues
and pastel pinks... hmm. Did the church really look like
that when it was new in August the Strong‘s days? On
the outside of the church, you see a mix of black stones
which are the old and reused ones, and the new, white,
light stones. To ascend the 67m high dome you have to
pay a lot of money, o8 / o5, so just take a short look into
the church and try to get a panorama view from another
spot: .
FAMOUS MODERN ART
(Daily from 10:00 to 18:00, closed on Mon, o8 / o6 with a
student card, audio guides are included) The moment has
finally arrived! The famous museum for art from the 19th
century to the present will open its doors in June 2010
again! The whole building was under reconstruction because of the big flood in 2002. Dresdeners still remember the tragic hours when they recovered the precious
paintings out of the cellars of most of the museums. Now
the ALBERTINUM has become an architectural ark for
Dresden‘s art treasures by integrating a sort of a lifted
HIGHLIGHT
platform in the foyer. Part of the museum will include
SYMBOL OF CONCILIATION
sculptures and the ‚Galerie Neue Meister‘ with such faWe‘ve had nothing but trouble with our FRAUENKIRCHE mous paintings from Otto Dix, Gerhard Richter, the ‚BrüSabrina (25, student): „I’ve been working in many bars, but I
like to watch what’s going on in the Hecht quarter throught the
huge windows of its bars ( ). That’s what all Dresdeners love –
gossip! Isn’t there a tiny little peeping tom in each of us?”
Suze (24, student) and Kathrin (24, works at university): „In summertime, Dresden is the most beautiful!
The best you can do is let the sun shine on your belly on
the meadows of the river Elbe ( ), especially when there
is a concert at the Filmnächte am Elbufer and you might
listen to it from outside the area.”
FAIRTRADE ORGANIC FOOD
(Daily from 10:00 to midnight) The ayurvedic tea is from
India, the coffee from Costa Rica, and the potato soup
from here. The AHA CAFE is cosy and the prices are reasonable (Saxon potato soup at o3,90). The meals served
are mostly vegetarian and the products used are from
certified organic cultivation. In this area, the cafe is an
independent alternative to the busy and expensive Weiße
Gasse ( ).
RESTAURANT AND CAFE AREA
The WEISSE GASSE comes up with 18 bars, cafés and
restaurants on an entire length of 200 metres. You can
choose between Italian gelato, Japanese sushi, Carribean cocktails, Spanish tapas, Dutch specialities etc. Here,
OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT STORE
(Mon to Fri from 10:00 to 20:00, Sat 9:00 to 20:00) At the
GLOBETROTTER you can get backpacks, clothing, tents
and all small tools to survive in the already comfortable camping sites and high speed trains while traveling
Europe.
STUDENTS HANG OUT
(Mon to Fri from 09:00, Sat from 12:00, Sun from 17:00
to 1:00) The BIERSTUBE, located right in the heart of the
campus, means something like ‚beer livingroom‘. Here
you can watch how some people study: starting with a
beer at 10:00 (0,5 liter for o1,90), skipping classes, having a meal under o5, skipping classes and recovering
from a hard day by playing cards.
Sebastian (26, location manager): „The Old
Town of Dresden can be very surprising. I was lucky
once and caught hundreds of people flash mobbing
in the Zwinger with all of them falling over like
domino stones. You can watch it on the internet.
There have been several actions like this until today
and if you’re well-informed you might take part in
one yourself!”
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ROCKABILLY STATION
(Daily from 19:00) In the smoking area outside, you see
two groups who don‘t talk to each other: dolled-up girls
and rockabillies with oiled hair and boots. The first go to
DOWNTOWN for party beats and disco tunes. The second
go to GROOVESTATION for the rock or funk concerts (usuHUGE AND COOL FOREST
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Dresden‘s green lung, with a surface as big as a third 5:00) For more than ten years now, the HEAVY DUTY has
of the city.
been the one and only loudest and heaviest metal bar in
town, offering concerts every month‘s second Saturday
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POPULAR CHILL PARK
for a full o1,00. Order yourself a beer or whiskey
Str and
The punks drink beer, the families eat ice cream, the stu- find out about that Last Supper paintingr showing Lemdents read on a blanket and the rest play Frisbee, soccer, my instead of Jesus. The old guy from
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(Mon to Fri from 11:00 to 19:00, Sat 11:00 to 14:00) Get
(Daily from 10:00 till 22:00) Waiting for ice cream here a new map or a travel guidebook in the REISEBUCHLAon a summer evening is like waiting for bananas in the DEN.
old GDR days: the waiting queue goes from the shop until
around the corner. KAFFEE KOMISCH supplies the whole
HEADSHOP AND RECORD STORE
Neustadt with its excellent soft ice cream. Eat it in Alaun- (Mon to Fri from 12:00 to 20:00, Sat from 11:00 to 17:00)
park ( )!
If you walk along the Alaunstraße you will notice the music. It comes from the THC and DROP OUT. The two shops
ROMANTIC WINE CELLAR
share the rent, but one sells records, mostly Alternative
(Bar daily from 18:00 till 02:00; wine cellar 20:00 to open music, and the other sells water pipes, tobacco and ciended) Upstairs: beer and coffee. Downstairs: wine with garette leaves.
candlelight. The well-informed waiter at 100 helps you
to pick a good wine out of their
FAMOUS INDIAN FOOD
Mebig selection. If you want
to kiss in one of the hidden corners,
sse make sure that you (Mon to Fri from 17:00 to 2:00, Sat and Sun from 10:00
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both ate from the famous Knobibrot (garlic
to 2:00) Especially in summer you won‘t miss the
SCHEUNE. The whole Neustadt is sitting in front of it to
SOUP PLACE
watch people and yell “Hey, I haven‘t seen you in years!”
(Mon to Fri from 11:30 to 23:00, Sat and Sun 12:00 to (when it was only last week). The restaurant is excellent
23:00) After 15:00 you can get free food in HOT SPOON and comfortable with spicy Indian food.
with a dice game (you need 3 of a kind with 3 throws).
You might think that never happens, but you‘re wrong!
ROCKGARAGE
o2,70 for a healthy bowl of soup otherwise. Half price At the first warm sunlight, everybody runs to the beer
one hour before closing.
garden of KATY‘S GARAGE for a couple of strawberry daiquiris. They stage music the whole week long, like Indie
FRUIT FIGHT!
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Sächsische Schweiz is best for hiking and
climbing: bizarre sandstone rocks, table
mountains, wild nature, small framework
villages and old castles.
TRAIN S1 FROM Neustadt Station and Main
Station / 2 PER HOUR / 45 min. RIDE
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5 min
S1, 4
PILLNITZ CASTLE Japaneseinfluenced castle with a
huge baroque pleasure
garden, once the playground of the Saxon Kings.
A good place to spend a day
outside.
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Bonus: the famous porcelain factory.
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POPULAR ALL-ROUND CLUB
(Party from Thu to Sat and sometimes Tue, on Wed bar
or movie at 20:00, often free entrance) There are mostly
small clubs in Dresden like the ALTES WETTBÜRO. Here
you listen and dance to all kinds of music like Dubstep,
Experimental, Hip Hop, Funk and even to concerts with a
whole Brassband. The beer garden is one of the finest in
town, so sit down and get yourself a drink and a cigarette. Don‘t forget to take a look to the bar because it‘s filled
with old tuners and thermion radios.
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Castle
HIGHLIGHT
PARTY ZONE
(Outside map, 25 minute walk from the Neustadt, or take
tram 7) Most tourists don‘t go this far but the industrial
area STRASSE E is the place to be on weekend nights.
The most popular clubs are the Tante Ju (liveclub), Spinnerei (gay partys and more), Kingbeatz (drum ‚n‘ bass),
Bunker (gothic) and BK8 (techno). But there are even
more hidden spots like the more alternative Sektor Evolution in the X-Park where many local bands also have
a practice room. This whole area belonged to a military
complex around 1870, which produced mostly handguns
and munitions. After World War I, Germany had to quit
this and so the area became an industry zone, only to
start up their weapons production again in World War II.
Strangely enough it wasn‘t destroyed with on February
13th 1945. During communist times, this area produced
train and airplane motors until the companies went bankrupt with the reunification of Germany. Today the listed
buildings belong to a cultural center.
Weimari
MORITZBURG CASTLE A fairy-tail like
castle in the middle of a lake surrounded by forests, which were once
the royal hunting grounds. Take your
swimming clothes to dive in one of
the smaller lakes.
Bus 326 from Neustadt station / 2
PER HOUR / 30 min. ride
ALTERNATIVE CENTRE
(Parties and concerts mostly on weekend) There are not
so many parties in AZ CONNI, but if you went to a Goa,
hardcore or Emo night here, you won‘t forget it. People
are open and friendly, but they are not used to tourists –
so it helps if you‘re the open-minded type yourself.
ße
Gro
Old Town
of Meißen
TO THE AIRPORT
➽ Take the S -Bahn train S2, which takes
13 minutes from the Train Station
Dresden Neustadt and 21 minutes
from the Hauptbahnhof (Main Station). The ticket costs €1,90. There are
two trains per hour. The last train
from the Main Station leaves at 23:18
and the first train goes at 04:18.
DANCING UNDER THE STATION
(Fri and Sat from 10:00 to 5:00) Located at the patriarchal cellar rooms below the Neustadt Station, SPUTNIK
2.0 presents some of the best-known DJs in town who
spin indie and rock records. Order a ‚Sputnik Special‘
from one of the good-humoured bartenders, it will make
you wanna dance till dawn in the cosy catacombs. Be
sure to bring your dancing shoes!
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OPENING HOURS
➽ The big museums and the Hygiene
Museum are closed on Mondays, except the Green Vaults (closed on Tuesday).
➽ Almost all museums offer a special
price for students, but you have to
show a valid student card.
➽ All supermarkets and most shops are
closed on Sundays, except the ones in
the Neustadt Station and Main Station.
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ROCK ROSIE!
(Daily from 20:00) Yes, another club in town! And it‘s
good again! ROSIE‘S AMÜSIERLOKAL has more the Hamburg haven style with fisher nets, boxing ring and plastic
fishes on the wall, but it‘s still very cosy. Free entrance,
except on Thursdays. Give a tip for the very rocking and
alternative live bands. Explore the small dance floor to
have maximum fun!
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TOURIST OFFICE
➽ Open Mon to Fri 10:00-19:00 / Sat
10:00-18:00 / Sun 10:00-15:00
➽ Bookings for hotels, audio guide rentals, guided tour agencies, souvenirs
and the Dresden City Card (a rebate
card if you want to see many museums)
HIP NOSTALGIA
(Mon to Sat from 19:00, sometimes free, otherwise
around o4 entrance for concerts) 1968 in East Germany!
This nostalgia trip only opened in 2008, but it‘s definitely
of the best-visited spots of the moment. You still get a
good feeling of what apartments were like in the communist times. In the OSTPOL there are always very good
concerts from progressive rock to the sixties club night.
Try the oldschool video game Pong on the floor at all
costs (makes more fun if you‘re already drunk)!
THE ALTERNATIVE TO THE ALTERNATIVE
If you‘ve had enough of the loud and busy Neustadt, you
should move on to the small HECHT QUARTER just like
the locals do, especially to Rudolf-Leonhard Street. Here, we are a bit less nervous and a bit more laid-back.
Located close to the St. Pauli church ruin, SANKT PAULI
(daily from 10:00 to open ended) offers affordable and
extravagant dishes. Further down the street, LEONARDO
(daily from 18:00, weekends from 10:00 to 2:30) has
been this area‘s long-established speciality for 14 years
now and offers German and international dishes and a
rich breakfast buffet on the weekends (Sat o7,70, Sun
o8,20). In summertime you should not miss a visit to the
Hawaiian-style TIKI ice-bar (daily from 9:00 to 22:00)
where you can drink two sundaes or milkshakes for the
price of one between 18:00 and 21:00. On your way back
to the Neustadt, at Bischofsplatz you might enjoy another
insider‘s tip and have a nice beer or wine on the roof of
the TERRASSE (daily from 19.00-2.00). All these places
have great terraces in the summer, so don‘t forget your
sunglasses. But don‘t try to look too cool!
place, from the time of the morning paper to the evening locals who try to strap a retro chair, a coffee table and
looking towards our neighbour country. August‘s body is
TOBACCO MOSQUE
dj.
also buried there, but his heart, which was so deeply at- The boss of the YENIDZE wanted something else for
a bedside lamp to their bikes here at the FLEA MARtached to Dresden, is in the catacombs of the cathedral his tobacco factory. So he ordered a fantastic, oriental
KET. Unless you want trouble on your next flight cheWATCH THE COOK
next to the castle.
mosque with a coloured dome and a chimney camouflackin, you‘d better stick to old postcards, an illustrated
(Restaurant daily from 10:00 to 2:00 / bar from 19:00 to children‘s book by the Dresdener Erich Kästner, or a Gerged as a minaret. Back in 1908 everybody hated it, and
HIGHLIGHT
2:00) The 173 year-old house shows a piece of Neustadt man half-liter beer glass.
the architect was even excluded from the architectural
history. The doors and wooden windows are smaller than
CHILLING IN THE CENTRE
association. But today the Dresdeners are just as proud
in new houses, and the gray shabby front hasn‘t been
The ELBWIESEN (Elbe meadow) is unique in Germany. No of this building as of the old town.
GALERIES QUARTER
renovated too much. The restaurant RASKOLNIKOFF also After a big fire in 1685, our famous King August the
houses, no streets, just grassland in the heart of town!
has a bar where the floor is full of sand. There is a big se- Strong ( ) built this BAROQUE QUARTER. The most
Ideal to enjoy Dresden‘s baroque panorama, to barbeSLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 AREA
lection of vodka and whiskey, but the best is to watch the important street is the Königsstraße, but the small side
cue, kiss, sleep, read, and count the ants in the grass. (Reach it by bus 75 from Postplatz or just walk along
cook while he‘s preparing your meal. There is also a very streets around it are prettier. The quarter was untrouThere‘s a big outdoor movie and theatre festival in July the Elbe River) Americans and Englishmen coming to
romantic beer garden in the backyard open in summer. bled by the bombs in World War II, so this section comes
and August. Bring your own blanket, a bottle of wine and Dresden always ask about the ‚Slaughterhouse 5‘ area,
Get an impression of how people live here while looking closer to the real look of Dresden in the glory days. Take
make some new friends!
because they had to read Kurt Vonnegut‘s book in school
in their gardens.
(about the Allied bombing in 1945). In Gera walk between the expensive art
many, however, it‘s not on the reading list
galleries selling paintings of the old
g
BUSY, OLD BAR
and there is not much to visit in the old
town panorama.
(Daily from 20:00) When the Neustadt falls asleep, here is
industrial site. The OSTRAGEHEGE was
h
a place to stay awake. The lively and dimly-lit HEBEDAS
constructed by the architect Hans Erlwein
NEW MEDIA ART
is a relict from 1914, still named after the first couple (Tue to Fri from 14:00 to 19:00, Sat
in the beginning of the 20th century (Ostra
that opened a bar here. It was a smoky haunt during and Sun from 12:00 to 20:00, o3 /
was the name of the former village in that
communist times, but since that time, it became bigger o2 with student card, free on Fri) The
area, meaning island). The slaughterhouse
and more colourful and the visitors became ever younger. KUNSTHAUS is the best address for
is a ruin today, but still quite impressive.
Cheap beer and good music on a small dance floor, too. contemporary art on the Neustadt
There is also a big contemporary art fesGet there in time on Saturday to get a seat!
tival ‚Ostrale‘ at the end of the summer
side. The videos, installations, perfor some weeks. Visit it to see some crazy
formances and pictures usually have
FINE ELECTRO CELLAR
stuff like super big patchwork zeppelins
a social theme like the relationship
29
(Fri and Sat, entrance o2) This small electro club in a between humans and their mobile
inside the shabby buildings!
f
cellar is so not easy to find, so look carefully for the KO- phones. One thing is sure: no dead
Her
man
RALLE cafe. It‘s always a good one to check if you don‘t artists.
MOUNTAIN OF FRAGMENTS
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end
know where else to go. For o2 you can‘t go wrong. The
On the night of February 13th 1945, Allied
e
-Str
7
real party starts late after midnight!
planes dropped a bomb carpet. They dumTHE TOWN‘S SHINY LANDMARK
aße
ped 1,500 tons total on Dresden, which
How is it possible? Without our Au8
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created a hurricane-like firestorm. The
gust the Strong (1670- 1733), you
ORIGINAL GDR-STYLE PUB
offensives took two days. There were rains
would probably not even be in DresMel
i
t
(Daily from 12:00 to 2:00 or longer, Sat from 14:00) Feel den today. He is the guy who singleof ashes even in towns 35 km away from
ta-B
entz
like your daily Schweinebraten in Biersauce mit Peter- handedly built most of the baroque
here. Around 160,000 households (of to-Str
aße
silienkartoffeln und Sauerkraut? For many older Dres- monuments in the Altstadt (well, with
tal 222,000) were destroyed or damaged
b
deners the BAUTZNER TOR is still the honky-tonk with the help of a few thousand workers)
and around 25,000 people died. Because
e
a bad east-image, but it has actually become a nice and filled the Alte Meister Galerie
most men were dead or still fighting the
d
underground tavern with a quaint flair. You get a full with world-famous oil paintings (
end of the war elsewhere, it was mostly
a
100% German meal under o5 and the original, organic ). So how is it possible he got such an
the women who had to clear the ruins.
e
d
Bunker
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ci
Neustadt-brewed beer from Lenin‘s. You will meet the ugly statue? The gold foil is alright,
This mountain consists only of fragments,
e Reithalle
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t
i
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lonely poet as well as the old GDR-looking couple there, but the fat horse of the GOLDENER
which were collected after the gigantic inf Washroom
sch
e
remembering the old days.
ferno. Grass covers the remains today but
REITER has short, squat legs and
M
g Sektor Evolution
a BK8
the TRÜMMERBERG is still high enough to
the sculptor did a real unlucky job
b Fahrenheit 100 h Tante Ju
SECONDHAND SATURDAY
have a view over the pretty unknown weson August‘s face. Anyway, this hero
i Kingbeatz
c Spinnerei
(Sat from 8:00 to 16:00) It‘s always fun to watch the was king of Poland too, so his face is
tern part of the town and the old town.
o3, or even free. Don‘t go on Wednesday - boring party to tip! You should not miss the Open Mic-Night once a
for people over 30. Watch out for the car on the roof and month starting at 21:00. The entrance is o5,00. Be sure
the auto parts inside.
to order the drink of the day for only o3,50! Right across the street, the LEBOWSKI (daily 19:00 to 5:00) and
JACKETS FOR q25
the ZILLE (Sun-Thu from 19:00 to 3:00, Fri and Sat from
(Mon to Fri from 10:00 to 19:00, Sat from 10:00 to 15:00) 17:00 to 5:00) are bars in a double yoke which make the
The guys at THE ARMY SHOP are oldschool Neustadt night pass quickly. You‘ll only recognize that you‘ve been
fellows who think that everybody should be able to buy here for much longer than you planned when you notice
stuff even when they‘re broke. You‘ll get a pair of leather the sun come up again outside or watch the same scene
gloves for o2, but with a smile they‘ll cut the price in two. of film ‚The Big Lebowski‘ running all around the clock
for the sixth time. Named after Heinrich Zille, a famous
ARTY BACKYARDS
German author and caricaturist born in Radeburg close
(Enter from Görlitzerstraße 23 or Alaunstraße 70) After to Dresden, the Zille is decorated in 1930s coffeehouse
the Wall fell in Berlin, everybody in the Neustadt went for style and offers a wide range of events from singera fresh pot of paint. A colourful courtyard like the KUNST- songwriter-concerts to cabaret, usually at o1,00 or o2,00
HOFPASSAGE, where arty monkeys and giraffes crawl which are paid with the first drink. For o2,90 you should
around the walls, would just never have been possible try to order a Rhabauke drink.
before 1990. It is now a fantasy place of weird frogs,
plants, stones, sculptures and alternative shops. A speCOSY TEAHOUSE
cialty is the rain house with its pipes, then get some sun (Daily from 16:00 to max 2:00) Frank at TEEGADROM is a
opposite that.
real tea freak, and he even made the cup you‘re drinking
from himself. The ceiling is low, the candlelight romantic,
FARM IN TOWN
the chairs comfy, so this is your warm cave for winter(Mon to Sat from 8:00 to 19:00, daily feeding time at time to play a game or read a book. Ice tea in summer.
16:00) Mèèè, hiiiii, crunch crunch. Smack in the middle
of the pubs and clubs, you find a home-made zoo named
BAGELBAR
PANAMA with cats, horses, sheep, goats, rabbits, guinea (Daily from 12:00 to 1:00) Even Americans and Israelis
pigs and chickens. This project is a good example of the think the bagels taste better here; self-baked every day
open-minded crazy spirit of the Neustadt quarter. It‘s after an original Jewish recipe. The upfront guy cracking
free, but bring your own giraffes and crocodiles.
the dirty jokes is called Thomas, but we all call him Bagelman. Starts at o3 for a bagel. You‘ll leave with a smile
GAY BAR
from the BAGEL‘S.
(20:00 till open ended) If you‘ve not had enough dancing
and drinking up to the Bermuda triangle, go and visit the
HOME OF CURRYWURST
QUEENS, a gay bar which is famous among all people (Open from 11:00 to 22:00, on Thu till midnight, Sa and
of Dresden-Neustadt. Here, you can blithely practice for Su to 2:00) Sausage is the typical German snack, but
your next lap dance show! Friday and Saturday are Disco the CURRY & CO is different. No sticky tables here. The
nights!
home-made peanut sauce, the classy logo and the tasty
fries made them win third prize on the national curryHIGHLIGHT
wurst competition on TV. o1,70 for fries, o2,20 for curBERMUDA TRIANGLE
rywurst.
This area on Görlitzer Straße is notorious among the
people of Dresden-Neustadt. Once you go inside, you‘ll
70‘S STYLE COFFEE BAR
find it hard to escape again. The most time-honoured bar (Daily from 09:00 to 2:00) The 70‘s retro CAFE COMBO
around here is the BLUE NOTE, a jazz bar being an institu- offers drinks like orangina, caro–coffee (we drank this
tion for 13 years now. Open from 20:00 till dawn, one can when we were kids) or absinth in a homey atmosphere.
enjoy live music here ranging from Bebop and Rockabilly It is not easy to decide either to stare out of the big winto Funk and Soul. The entrance is free, but don‘t forget dows or at the pretty asses behind the bar. Well-visited
bu
r
INTERNET
➽ In Dresden, there are hardly places
with free internet access or with free
WiFi. Free WiFi is available in the Tiki
)
bar on Görlitzerstraße (close to
and the cafe Europa on Königsbrü). Some bars
ckerstraße (close to
and hostels also have free access, but
you have to buy a drink.
➽ Internet cafes (not free) are marked
with a logo on the map.
and paper shields, the team from the Neustadt and the
rival team from Hecht quarter bomb each other until the
police comes to disperse them. All what is left then are
smiling fighters and a big mess on the street. For days
afterward, both quarters often continue debating as to
who the winner was. The fight happens once per year,
but it’s always very secret when it will be (usually in June). Look for the small black-and-white posters saying
‚GEMÜSESCHLACHT‘.
lenplatz
Am Koh
CITY TRANSPORT
➽ Same ticket for bus, tram and train
within Dresden.
➽ You can buy a ticket from the yellow
machines on stops or inside trams
(not from the driver, the machine
accepts only coins) and buses (only
from the driver, coins or cash). If you
buy your ticket in the tram, it‘s already stamped. If you buy it from a machine outside you have to stamp it in
the tram.
➽ Single ticket = €1,90 (valid for one
hour). Day ticket = €5,00. If you are 2
people and both travel twice by tram,
it‘s already cheaper to buy a Family
Day Pass for €7,00.
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PUNK ROCK AND MORE
(Open bar on Tue, regular parties on different days) The
CHEMIEFABRIK looks shabby from the outside, and...
eh, shabby on the inside. But it‘s a local favourite and
the entrance fee is very low. They do mostly punk rock,
hardcore and ska concerts (but every other type of music
too). A typical Neustadt event happens every Thursday:
the ‚Jugendtanz‘. Instead of dancing, people just freak
out, jumping around without trying to look cool or funky.
The party starts late and the music goes on till morning.