Must‑See Heritage & Sights
A compact selection of Dresden highlights focused on art, riverfront landmarks and local history. Features the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister’s 15th–18th-century paintings, the suspended Schwebebahn linking Loschwitz across the Elbe, the cantilever Blue Wonder bridge, baroque Loschwitz church and riverside Elbe castles. Also included are literary and local-history museums housed in period villas and a museum tracing Prohlis’s 7,000-year settlement history.
A Old Masters Gallery
The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, Germany, displays around 750 paintings from the 15th to the 18th centuries.
B Dresden Suspension Railway
The Dresden Suspension Railway is a suspended funicular located in Dresden, Germany, and connects the districts of Loschwitz and…
C Blue Wonder Bridge
Loschwitz Bridge is a cantilever truss bridge over the river Elbe in Dresden the capital of Saxony in Germany.
D Kirche zu Dresden-Loschwitz
Baroque Protestant church in Loschwitz; notable for its 18th-century architecture and hilltop position near the suspension railway.
E Schillerhäuschen
Small literature museum dedicated to the life and works of Friedrich Schiller.
F Heimat- und Palitzsch-Museum Prohlis
Local-history museum covering the 7,000-year settlement history of Dresden’s Prohlis district.
G Schloß Übigau
Baroque riverside palace built 1724–1726 for Reichsgraf Jacob Heinrich von Flemming.
H Castle Eckberg
One of the three Elbe castles, located on the right Elbe bank about 3 km upstream from central Dresden.
I Leonhardi Museum
The impressive villa built in the style of a medieval mansion was home to Dresden's Edouard Leonhardi, famous painter of romantic…
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