In 1734, a was built behind the Black Gate directly on the Elbe, which in 1753 received a licence to serve beer and wine ("Drachenschänke") as well as to bake, slaughter and keep a forge. After the doctor Peter Ambrosius Lehmann received permission to set up a mineral bath, he had an open-air bath with bathhouse built there in 1763, which offered 28 tubs as well as summer quarters in 1824 and was operated until 1860. In 1764, Christian Gottlob Reuß built a garden restaurant there. In 1766, Carl Christian Lincke acquired the area and developed it into a place for excursions, building a summer theatre for travelling theatre companies on it in 1775/76, where, among others, the Seyler Theatre Company and the Secondasche Truppe moved in. Lincke was favoured by the 20-year tax exemption. In 1776, a new comedian house was created, which provided excellent conditions for the music theatres and singspiels, and later operas, that performed in the summer, thus filling the gap that the electoral theatres could not serve. From 1816–17 to 1858, the Royal Court Theatre or King Friedrich August I leased the "Theater auf dem Linckeschen Bade" as an additional venue, alongside the Morettisches Opernhaus, for the summer months. This was followed in 1853 by a large concert hall built by Bernhard Hempel, which, however, burned down in 1859. A year earlier, the theatre building was also demolished. In 1867, it reopened as the "Grand Théâtre des Varietés". By 1901, there was an elegant wine restaurant, a tunnel tavern, a hall, as well as a concert garden and numerous verandas, collectively known as the "Restaurationsgarten", which existed at least until the 1920s and is reported to have had 15,000 seats in 1911. During the Bombing of Dresden towards the end of the Second World War, the area was largely destroyed. Only the "Drachenschänke" remained, which was used as a restaurant until a few years ago, but now houses flats.