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Altstadt (Old Town) Dresden

12 Reviews Dresden was known as the Florence of the North or the Venice of the River Elbe even before the allied bombings at the end of World War II destroyed most of this once magnificent Baroque city. Thus,...

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Facts / General Information Leipzig

13 Reviews I visited Leipzig in August of 2002 on the way to Karlsruhe where SV BSZS (German Shepherd World dogshow) had to be held. We stayed for a night in Lützen that located 18 km south from Leipzig. We left...

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Links & Maps Dresden

5 Reviews The Altstadt has the best known attractions, like: -Zwinger -Green Vault -Frauenkirche -Semper Oper -Royal Mews -Fürstenzug -Royal Palace -Cathedral -Kreuzkirche -Altmarkt Square -Brühl...

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Festivals / Markets / Events Leipzig

4 Reviews Leipzig’s fairs have been famous for centuries. In DDR times the spring and autumn trade fairs were the main events of the country’s economy. The DDR fairgrounds with the big double M east of the city...

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Saxonian Switzerland Dresden

2 Reviews Make a trip to the SAECHSISCHE SCHWEIZ (Saxonian Switzerland)or another name is 'Elbsandsteingebirge'. This is an area with mointains and rocks near from Dresden which is very popular and beautiful...

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Monuments / Sights Leipzig

5 Reviews Sorry for the picture, my friend was more important than those funny creatures by contemporary sculptor Bernd Göbel. These figures reflect types of the East German society. My friend is...

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Zwinger Dresden

3 Reviews In the Zwinger are the Old Masters Gallery, Armoury collection (Rustkammer), the Porcelain Collection, Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, and Zoological Museum. There were so many fabulous buildings...

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Leisure Activity Leipzig

1 Review Leipzig's city center is quite compact and a joy to walk around. There is a nice conglomeration of building styles and a cafe is never far away. I found it one of Germany's most user friendly and...

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Going up?

by iandsmith

I had seen pictures of the glass lift and was fairly excited about going up in it. The reality turned out to be a little less exciting.The lift was constructed over 100 years ago in 1904 by Rudolf Sendig and boasts a 50 m high free-standing tower. A man takes your money inside the lift, it's quite quaint.If you venture to Lucerne in Switzerland there a much higher one though. With the one at Bad Schandau you can reach the village of Ostrau, but we didn't know that when I forked out the money. Frankly, if I were to go again, I'd walk the trail. Fares:1,50 € single tour, 1 € reduced (children from 6 to 16 years old, bikes)2,50 € round trip, 1,50 € reducedThere are also family tickets and if you've paid the local visitor's tax you also get a discount. However, there's one amazing thing I knew nothing about. For that, go to my next tip.

The missing lynx of Bad Schandau

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The lift reach its zenith and we departed. Beyond us lay a cage, apparently an aviary but, what was this? A cat-like animal prowled back and forth constantly in the manner of a bored hunter seeking to run free.Nowhere had a I read about this animal. We were at once transfixed. Couldn't take our eyes off it. Had no idea what it was all about.How fortunate for us then that a kind German man was alongside and, though he had limited English, managed to explain to us the extraordinary story of what had happened.For starters, there was more than one animal, as he was quick to point out. Behind the cage indeed, there were two others. One perched in a tree (pic 3) and one on the ground (pic 2). It turned out these were the mother and father of the animal in the cage. However, at birth they had rejected the kitten and, in an effort to keep it alive, the local veterinarian had taken it home and...

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Dresden, a city in transit

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Dresden is unashamedly trying to recapture its past. Projects like the fabled Green Room, reconstruction of the bombed churches, rejuvenation of the foreshore and many others are reviving some of the glory days and the tourists are coming in droves.Trying to get a ticket to the Green Room at certain times is impossible and, if you do get one, you are assigned a time, such is the demand. It's the one thing I admire about the Germans. If it's fallen, they'll put it up again, unlike certain Mediterranean countries who simply let the grass grow over them.Some places were hardly touched at all, like the wonderful Semper art gallery, part of the complex of buildings around the Zwinger, Dresden's most famous architectural structure. I went in an viewed the wonderful works on show, beautifully preserved and presented.The Semperoper has guided tours (not all of which are in English) and if you...

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What's in a doorway

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Not much in Australia. In Gorlitz, more than you would normally expect. Picture one for instance, shows the whispering door where, if one person speaks into the groove on one side it's supposed to carry around to the other.A lot of these 15th and 16th century doorways were also brewing houses and, as shown in picture 4, they used to have 2 holes in which were inserted fresh straw to indicate that a fresh brew was to be had at that establishment.

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No stress, just Strasse

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I alighted from the train and sought directions. Someone pointed me in the opposite way to that which most other passengers were headed. I was a little disappointed until I walked out from the subway at the station. I need not have been.Straight away the place impressed. Immediately before me I could tell that this place had at least been prosperous once. All the way to my accommodation were rows of baroque splendour, probably dating from the 19th century and clear testimony to the wealth that this town had attained. It always filled me with glee. Coming around a corner and seeing wonderful streets like this and not a tourist in sight.They are working hard to promote their city and I, for one, give it my endorsement.Not for Gorlitz the hordes of Dresden or Prague; no, just a pleasant city with layers of architecture and most of it untouched by conflict or designs of modernity.My...

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Nice by night

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The night closed in, the lights came on, I knew there was a river nearby. Perhaps I could get some reflection shots.I came to a pedestrian bridge below the old market and saw the lights down the line of the river's edge. For me, it was romantic. I come from a land where you can travel for days and still be in the same country, a land where you have to cross oceans just to get somewhere else. For me, being able to walk to another country in a couple of minutes is a novelty, one I never quite get used to. Thus I tarried on the bridge for some time, thinking wonderful thoughts, imagining the history that flowed down the Neisse.At the end of World War 2, the town was divided and, while the major part of Gorlitz remained in Germany, Poland annexed a large chunk. The dividing line was the Neisse River. Those from outside the European Union cannot cross the walking bridge.Personally, I find the...

Gorlitz - more than an outpost

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The RathausYes, of course, that name when pronounced in English has connoitations that we will not elaborate on here.Especially when it has one of my all time favourite staircases. I came upon it the first night I was there, had no idea what it was all about but decided I liked it and got the tripod and camera out. It turns out that this ascent, between the south wing of the town hall (Rathaus) and its tower, dates back nearly 500 years and leads to the oriel-like proclamation pulpit (hear ye, hear ye). 52 years later, in 1591, the statue of Justitia was added, though mysteriously without the usual blindfold.Was justice dispensed without beholding the person in question? We shall never know.Above the staircase you may gaze upon the coat of arms of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary and Bohemia 1443-1490.It is also recommended that you venture inside and see some of the beautiful rooms,...

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History

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Saxony was first mentioned in the second century AD as an area between the Elbe and Ems rivers including south Jutland (that is today the very northwestern corner of Germany). In the 9th century Saxony occupied nearly all the territory between the Elbe and Saale rivers on the east and the Rhine on the west; it bordered on Franconia and Thuringia in the south. That's why you hear the Word "Sachsen" in two other states as well.The “Golden Bull” of 1356 raised the duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (one part of the Saxon Empire) to the permanent rank of elector, with the right to participate in the election of the Holy Roman Emperor. In 1423 Margrave Frederick the Warlike of Meissen (ruled by the house of Wettin) took over Saxe-Wittenberg, Thuringia and Lusatia and became an Elector. Thus, Saxony shifted from northwest Germany to east-central Germany. With Augustus II of Saxony’s election as king of...

The Zwinger

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The Zwinger in Dresden was built by Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann and finished by Gottfried Semper .In December 2004 they were still restoring the innercourt of the palace, but you may see some great collections there, like medieval armouries, paintings, a collection of precious porcelain and the astonomical Cabinet. In case that you would like to see all of them you may get a combination-ticket and save some money that way. In order to take photography inside you have to pay a seperate fee ! The ZWINGER is certainly one of the best known buildings of Dresden and you may enter its courts even at night.

a dream come true

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Such is my love of beer that my girlfriend's parents cut out beer articles in Germany even before I arrive. It seemed that there was a small brewpub in a neighboring mountain village called Geising and we made some plans to go there on the next nice day. Nice days got used for other things and with time running out on my German stay, we headed over that way one bitterly cold snowing morning. I still hoped to do a hike of some sort but the tourist information said if the snow kept falling the way it was, it would be out of the question to hike at higher elevations. We walked around the quaint village for ten minutes or so, but our faces were soon frozen and we ducked into the brewpub that was the true reason for our visit in the first place. It was a nice cozy rathaus so we decided on some soup to wash down the beer and warm us up. The beers sounded better in their descriptions than...

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Hotel Taschenbergpalais Kempinski Dresden

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Hotel Fuerstenhof Leipzig

1 Review and 61 Opinions As to be expected in a hotel of this class, the service was excellent Within easy walk of Leipzig...

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