Friedrichstadt is a neighborhood 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 ...

, Germany. A factory district in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it is known as the home of the founders of the artistic association known as Die Brücke. Its population is 9,887 (2020).

History

Once known as ''Ostra'', a Sorbian village going back to the year 1206, it was then turned into a manor farm for the

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's residence in Dresden.

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 ...

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a ...

renamed the area ''Neustadt'' in 1730. This Neustadt should not to be confused with the neighborhood in Dresden now known as Neustadt, then called ''Neue Königstadt''. In 1731, the people of Neustadt again renamed their settlement, this time to ''Friedrichstadt'' after Augustus the Strong's son, future elector Frederick Augustus II, known in German as ''Friedrich August II''. After the dawn of the

Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Great Britain, continental Europe, and the United States, that occurred during the period from around 1760 to about 1820–1840. This transition included going f ...

, the city declared Friedrichstadt a factory district in 1878. The plight of the factory workers in this area became a common theme in the works of the artists of Die Brücke, who set up a studio in a former cobbler's shop. A good deal of the Friedrichstadt was destroyed in the

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on 13–14 February 1945. Many of the neighborhood's attractions have been rebuilt since then. Today Friedrichstadt is a mixed industrial, commercial, and residential neighborhood with almost 6,000 residents.

Attractions

Yenidze Yenidze is a former cigarette factory building in Dresden, Saxony, Germany built between 1907 and 1909. Today it is used as an office building. It is notable for its Moorish Revival exterior design which borrows design elements from mosques and ...

A former cigarette factory built in 1907, now office building and restaurant/biergarten with an excellent view of the Dresden skyline.

Old Catholic cemetery

The oldest grave is from 1724. Contains notable

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, roccoco, and neoclassical gravestones. The final resting place of many famous Dresdeners as well as a number of victims of the

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Palais Brühl-Marcolini and the Fountain of Neptune

Built in 1719 as the summer residence of

Ursula Katharina of Altenbockum Ursula Katharina of Altenbockum, divorced Princess Lubomirska, married Duchess von Württemberg-Winnental ( pl, Urszula Katarzyna Lubomirska z domu Bokum; 25 November 1680 – 4 May 1743), later Imperial Princess of Teschen (german: Reichsf ...

, this palace, which now houses the Friedrichstadt hospital, contains Chinese and

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-style rooms as well as the neighborhood's most famous fountain, the Fountain of Neptune. Other notable residents included Count

Heinrich von Brühl Heinrich, count von Brühl ( pl, Henryk Brühl, 13 August 170028 October 1763), was a Polish-Saxon statesman at the court of Saxony and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and a member of the powerful German von Brühl family. The incumbency ...

and

Count Camillo Marcolini Camillo Count Marcolini-Ferretti (2 April 1739 in Fano – 10 July 1814 in Prague) was a minister and general director of the fine arts for the Electorate, later Kingdom of Saxony. The prince-elector Frederick Christian met Camillo's father ...

Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader wh ...

also briefly lived in the palace in 1813.

Notable residents

Paula Modersohn-Becker Paula Modersohn-Becker (8 February 1876 – 20 November 1907) was a German Expressionist painter of the late 19th and early 20th century. Her work is noted for its intensity and its blunt, unapologetic humanity, and for the many self-portraits the ...

, German painter and most important representatives of early expressionism * Caroline Friederike Friedrich (1749–1815), German painter

Notes

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20130709072015/http://www.dresden-und-sachsen.de/dresden/friedrichstadt.htm "Aus der Geschichte der Friedrichstadt" (in German) * https://web.archive.org/web/20081030014957/http://www.dresden.de/de/02/06/05/01/c_05.php A collection of statistics on Friedrichstadt from the official website of the city of Dresden (in German) {{Authority control Boroughs and quarters of Dresden