Previously a Nazi museum, a Soviet museum and an East German museum. Today it is the military history museum of democratic Germany. Original building built in 1876. Alterations by Daniel Libeskind in 2011. Also see my photos the Jewish Museum, Berlin by the same architect.

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Rampart Pavilion, The Zwinger, Dresden, 2013

Ruins of the rampart pavilion in 1945.

The Zwinger Facade

Glockenspiel Pavilion and surrounding buildings of the Zwinger

The Zwinger is a palace in Dresden, eastern Germany, built in Rococo style and designed by court architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann. It served as the orangery, exhibition gallery and festival arena of the Dresden Court.

The buildings were ruined in February 1945, during the Anglo-American bombing of Dresden. Reconstruction, supported by the Soviet military administration, began in 1945; parts of the restored complex were opened to the public in 1951. By 1963 the Zwinger had largely been restored to its pre-war state.

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New Synagogue, Dresden, July 2013

Detail of facade

The Semper Synagogue c. 1860

Burnt out ruins of the Synagogue after the pogrom in Novmber 1938

The New Synagogue in Dresden was completed in 2001 and designed by architects Rena Wandel-Hoefer and Wolfgang Lorch. It was built on the same location as the Semper Synagogue (1839–1840) designed by Gottfried Semper, which was destroyed in 1938, during the Kristallnacht.

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