page_title: Dresden
section_title: Historicism
hierarchical_section_title: Dresden / Cityscape / Architecture / Historicism
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: 11.10.2012 01067 Dresden, Altmarkt: "Haus Altmarkt" (GMP: 51.049853,13.739170). Bis zum II. Weltkrieg stand hier das Im Oktober 1888 eröffnete "Residenz-Cafe", das den Bomben zum Opfer fiel. Eine Wiederbelebung der Kaffeehaustradition erfolgte in den 1950er Jahren mit dem Bau des Restaurantkomplexes "Haus Altmarkt". Mehr als ein halbes Jahrhundert später entstanden die heutigen Wasserspiele auf dem Altmarkt (GMP: 51.049855,13.738658). Die Platzgestaltung einschließlich Wasserbecken geht auf die Arbeit des Hamburger Büros WES &amp; Partner mit dem Landschaftsarchitekten Hinnerk Wehberg zurück. Am 09.07.2009 wurden die Wasserspiele am Altmarkt erstmals in Betrieb genommen (und versiegten nach drei Tagen erst mal wieder). Zusammen sind es fünf neue Wasserbecken. Aus insgesamt 39 Düsen auf und neben den Becken aus chinesischem Granit (weil er dem Sandstein ähnlich sieht) kommt das Wasser. Die Brunnen haben eine speicherprogrammierte Steuerung. So können die Düsen einzeln und in unterschiedlicher Stärke eingestellt werden. Für jedes Becken soll es fünf Programme geben. [SAM1872.JPG]20121011060DR.JPG(c)Blobelt
context_page_description: Dresden is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth largest by area, and the third most populous city in the area of former East Germany, following only Berlin and Leipzig. Dresden's urban area comprises the towns of Freital, Pirna, Radebeul, Meissen and Coswig and has around 790,000 inhabitants. The Dresden metropolitan region has approximately 1.34 million inhabitants.
  Dresden is the second largest city on the River Elbe after Hamburg. Most of the city's population lives in the Elbe Valley, but a large, albeit very sparsely populated area of the city east of the Elbe lies in the West Lusatian Hill Country and Uplands and thus in Lusatia, while many boroughs west of the Elbe lie in the foreland of the Ore Mountains as well as in the valleys of the rivers rising there and flowing through Dresden, the longest of which are the Weißeritz and the Lockwitzbach.
  The name of the city as well as the names of most of its boroughs and rivers are of Slavic origin. Dresden is the second largest city in the Thuringian-Upper Saxon dialect area, following only Leipzig.
context_section_description: Historicist buildings made their presence felt on the cityscape until the 1920s.
  Notable examples of Renaissance Revival architecture in Dresden include the Albertinum located at Brühl's Terrace as well as the Saxon State Chancellery and the Saxon State Ministery of Finance located on the northern Elbe river banks.
  Yenidze is a former cigarette factory building built in the style of a mosque between 1907 and 1909.
  The most recent historicist buildings in Dresden date from the short era of Stalinist architecture in the 1950s, e.g. at the Altmarkt.
caption: Stalinist architecture at the Altmarkt
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