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The Johanneum is a 16th-century
The Johanneum was built between 1586 and 1590 as the ''Stallgebäude'', the stables of the adjacent 
The upper floor dates back to 1730 and 1731, when on
Website of the Dresden Transport Museum
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The Johanneum is a 16th-century Renaissance
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building, originally named ''Stallgebäude'' because it was constructed as the royal mews. It is located at the Neumarkt in 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 ...
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Today the Johanneum is home to the Dresden Transport Museum (''Verkehrsmuseum Dresden''), which displays vehicles of all modes of transport and their history.
History
The Johanneum was built between 1586 and 1590 as the ''Stallgebäude'', the stables of the adjacent Dresden Castle
Dresden Castle or Royal Palace (german: Dresdner Residenzschloss or ) is one of the oldest buildings in Dresden, Germany. For almost 400 years, it was the residence of the electors (1547–1806) and kings (1806–1918) of Saxony from the Alberti ...
.Hoppe-Münzberg, Esther: Das Kurfürstliche Stall- und Harnischkammergebäude mit Langem Gang und Stallhof - eine neue Bauaufgabe im Komplex des Dresdner Residenzschlosses. Die Schlossanlage der Renaissance und ihre frühbarocken Um- und Ausgestaltungen; in: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Sachsen (ed.): Das Residenzschloss zu Dresden, vol. 2, Petersberg 2019, pp. 397–419. Both horses and armoury collection of the Saxon dukes were housed here; two halls on the building's ground floor provided space for 128 horses. The upper floors were designed as collection rooms for the vast collection of princely armoury
An arsenal is a place where arms and ammunition are made, maintained and repaired, stored, or issued, in any combination, whether privately or publicly owned. Arsenal and armoury (British English) or armory (American English) are most ...
, wardrobe
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and utensils for pageants of the Dresden court. The Renaissance-era building was designed as one of the first autonoumus collection buildings in central Europe by Paul Buchner
Paul Buchner (June, 1531 - 13 November, 1607) was a German architect, geometer, carpenter, and screw maker from Nuremberg, Germany.
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on behalf of Prince Elector Christian I of Saxony.
The upper floor dates back to 1730 and 1731, when on Augustus II the Strong
Augustus II; german: August der Starke; lt, Augustas II; in Saxony also known as Frederick Augustus I – Friedrich August I (12 May 16701 February 1733), most commonly known as Augustus the Strong, was Elector of Saxony from 1694 as well as K ...
's request, the building was converted into a guest house and later into a museum. The double-flight staircase was added in 1731. The royal painting collection was moved from the Dresden Castle to the ''Stallgebäude'' in 1747 and remained there until 1855.Harald Marx: ''Gemäldegalerie Dresden - Führer Alte Meister ''. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig, 3. Aufl., 2006, , pp. 8-17.
After another building alteration between 1872 and 1876, the ''Stallgebäude'' was renamed the Johanneum, after the Saxonian King John
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(Johann in German). The Dresden Porcelain Collection was moved into the Johanneum in 1876, followed in 1877 by the Dresden Armory
The Dresden Armoury or Dresden Armory (German: ''Rüstkammer''), also known as the Dresden Historical Museum (German: ''Historisches Museum Dresden''), is one of the world's largest collections of ceremonial weapons, armour and historical textile ...
collection.
The building was severely damaged during the February 13, 1945 bombing of Dresden in World War II
The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Roya ...
. Its reconstruction began in 1950, and the renovation of the facade was finished in 1960. Since this reconstruction, the Johanneum has been home to the Dresden Transport Museum.
Notes and references
External links
*Website of the Dresden Transport Museum
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