page_title: Dresden Historical Neumarkt Society
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Dresden Historical Neumarkt Society / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ruine der Dresdner Frauenkirche Oktober 1985 (im Hintergrund die Hofkirche)
context_page_description: The Dresden Historical Neumarkt Society e. V. is an association founded in 1999, which is committed to reconstructing the historic city centre of the German city of Dresden as much as possible.
context_section_description: The World War Two destruction of Dresden's historic centre began the desire for its reconstruction. Before the war, Dresden was seen as a unique, remarkable and extraordinarily beautiful example of civic baroque architecture that was beyond compare in Northern Europe. The night of February 13/14 1945 destroyed the whole town centre with all the residential buildings in the Neumarkt area.
  Following the war destruction, some historical buildings like the Zwinger Palace and the Semper Opera had been reconstructed by the GDR authorities, but very little development had taken place on the site of the former Neumarkt. The socialist authorities had demolished all but a few of the war ruins that had remained in the Neumarkt with plans of building a new socialist Dresden. These plans came to nothing and the site remained undeveloped into the 1980's. This provided the opportunity for its reconstruction on the original historic footings.
caption: The still ruinous Dresden Frauenkirche in the undeveloped Neumarkt in October 1985.
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