Klotzsche is a borough (''
Stadtbezirk'') of
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 larg ...
,
Germany
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. It consists of four quarters (''Stadtteile''):
*Klotzsche proper
*
Hellerau
Hellerau is a northern quarter ''(Stadtteil)'' in the city of Dresden, Germany, slightly south of Dresden Airport. It was the first garden city in Germany. The northern section of Hellerau absorbed the village of Klotzsche, where some 18th cent ...
*Rähnitz
*Wilschdorf
The borough is located north of the
Elbe Valley and the Dresden city centre, on the western rim of the
Lusatian Plateau. It borders the extended
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 ...
woodlands on the
Prießnitz river in the south and east, and the area of
Moritzburg in the northwest.
Klotzsche hosts the major Dresden weather station and the international airport of the city. While Klotzsche has a historic villa quarter, that quarter does not have many residents. The northern part comprises the major industrial locations of
Silicon Saxony
Silicon Saxony is a registered industry association of nearly 300 companies in the microelectronics and related sectors in Saxony, Germany, with around 40,000 employees. Many, but not all, of those firms are situated in the north of Dresden.
Wit ...
, such as
GlobalFoundries
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, Fab 1, and
Infineon Technologies
Infineon Technologies AG is a German semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1999, when the semiconductor operations of the former parent company Siemens AG were spun off. Infineon has about 50,280 employees and is one of the ten largest semicond ...
. Klotsche can easily be reached from the city center with the tram number 7, commuter trains, and urban and suburban bus lines.
References
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Boroughs and quarters of Dresden