1. DRESDEN

2. die Hauptstadt Sachsens

3. Home to Kings  1206 - Dresden’s first mentioned  Kings of Saxony  August the Strong Catholic King of Poland 1694-1733

4. Dresden Fürstenzug

5. Kultur und Architektur  Florence on the Elbe  Renaissance buildings  Baroque architecture  19 th century buildings  Approximately 523,000 citizens

6. Frauenkirche  Baroque dome  Erected between 1726 and 1743  “Stone Bell” collapsed on February 15, 1945  Left as an anti-war symbol during GDR days  Rebuilt  2 million visitors since 2005

7. Frauenkirche

8. Die Semperoper  Gottfried Semper  Architect for original opera house - 1841  Manfred Semper  Son, in charge of reconstruction - 1869  Early Renaissance, Greek Revival and Baroque Architecture  Wagner operas premiered here  Destroyed during bombing  Rebuilt 40 years later  Reopened in 1985

9. Semperoper

10. die Katholische Hofkirche  Started building in 1738  Balance to the Frauenkirche  Considered Roccoco

11. Zwinger  Built between 1710 and 1728  “Zwinger” means “interspace”  Frederick August married Hapsburg Archduchess Maria Josepha  Originally built as an orangery and a location of festivities  Art Museum  Baroque pieces  Old and new masters  Porcelain

12. Aerial View of Zwinger 1933

13. Zwinger

14. Bombing of Dresden  February 13 through 15, 1945  Churchill – German Strategy and Capacity to Resist  Arthur Harris – Air Chief Marshal  Firestorm by the British Royal Air and the US Army Air Force  Destruction of the best of Germany  Civilians, Refugees, Casualties  25,000 to 500,000 http://web311.pavilion.net/2WWdresden.htm

15. Neumarkt und Frauenkirche in 1949

16. “Inspiration” for Slaughterhouse Five "You guys burnt the place down, turned it into a single column of flame. More people died there in the firestorm, in that one big flame, than died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined." --Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

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