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The Großer Garten (English: Great Garden) is a Baroque style park in central
Image:Großer Garten1.jpg, Park seen from the south-western corner
Image:Parkeisenbahn Dresden Dampflokomotive Moritz 2008-08-31.jpg, Park railway
Image:Großer Garten14.jpg , ''Sommerpalais''
Image:Luftbildaufnahme des Großen Gartens in Dresden.jpg , Aerial view
Image:Dresden - Großer Garten - Herculesallee.jpg, Main avenue through the park
The Großer Garten (English: Great Garden) is a Baroque style park in central Dresden
Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) 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 ...
. It is rectangular in shape and covers about 1.8 km². Originally established in 1676 on the orders of John George III, Elector of Saxony
Johann George III (20 June 1647 – 12 September 1691) was Elector of Saxony from 1680 to 1691. He belonged to the Albertine line of the House of Wettin.
Early life
Johann Georg III was born in Dresden, the only son of Johann George II and Magd ...
, it has been a public garden since 1814. Pathways and avenues are arranged symmetrically throughout the park. The ''Sommerpalais'', a small Lustschloss
In Renaissance and Early Modern German architecture, a ''Lustschloss'' (french: maison de plaisance, both equating in English to "pleasure castle/house") is a small country house or palace which served the private pleasure of its owner, usuall ...
is at the center of the park.
Originally established outside the old walls of the city, the park was surrounded by urban areas by the second half of the 19th century. Dresden Zoo and Dresden Botanical Garden
The ''Botanischer Garten der Technischen Universität Dresden'' (3.25 hectares), also known as the ''Botanischer Garten Dresden'' or Dresden Botanical Garden, is a botanical garden maintained by the Dresden University of Technology. It is locat ...
were added late in the 19th century. A miniature railway, known as the Parkeisenbahn, operates in the park from April to October.
Volkswagen
Volkswagen (),English: , . abbreviated as VW (), is a German motor vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1937 by the German Labour Front under the Nazi Party and revived into a global brand post-W ...
's Transparent Factory
The Transparent Factory is a car factory and exhibition space in Dresden, Germany owned by German carmaker Volkswagen and designed by architect Gunter Henn. It originally opened in 2002, producing the Volkswagen Phaeton until 2016. As of 2017 ...
is the newest building in the park, completed in 2002. It is on ''Straßburger Platz'', in the northwest corner of the park.
See also
*List of Baroque residences
This is a list of Baroque architecture, Baroque palaces and Residenz, residences built in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Baroque architecture is a building style of the Baroque, Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy and spread in Europe ...
* Dresden Heath
The Dresden Heath (german: Dresdner Heide) is a large forest in the city of Dresden, Germany. The heath is the most important recreation area in the city and is also actively forested. Approximately 6,133 hectares of the Dresden Heath are desig ...
, a large forest in Dresden
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Geography of Dresden
Tourist attractions in Dresden
Parks in Germany
Gardens in Saxony
1676 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire