| Café Friedrichstadt,
The Baroque style restaurant was built in 1749 by the son of the famous builder Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann in the Friedrichstadt, which, as a forward-looking man, obtained a "license to serve alcohol" as early as 1687. had acquired. From 1906 the Café at Friedrichstrasse 52, where it had to close in 1988.
Since 2001, a gastronomic establishment of the same name at Friedrichstrasse 38/40 has continued the tradition with hotel and restaurant operations, and from 2013 under a different operator. |
| Café Prag (Café Praque),
created in 1953, a well-known and popular dance and Varieté cafe on the road Seestraße, formerly belonging to the square Altmarkt. From 1991 to 2007 was in the Café Prague one of the first Italian restaurants of Dresden
The conversion into a market hall with a total area of 4000 m² took place between mid-August 2012 and December 2013. Adjacent to Herbert-Wehner-Platz is a three-story, round new building with a glass facade, which is closely related to the architecture of the Altmarkt-Galerie leans. It mainly contains restaurant and café areas. This market hall could not last long; there is now an Italian restaurant on the ground floor. The term “market hall” for the café Prague was misleading anyway, as it was more of a "food court" (literally translated: "food court", a kind of fast-food restaurant for consumption there). |
| Canaletto view, The most famous city view of Dresden was made famous by a painting by Bernardo Belotto, called Canaletto. The motif from the bank of the Innere Neustadt in front of today's Hotel Bellevue has been painted and photographed repeatedly since then. With the completion of the Frauenkirche, the world-famous silhouette of the Old Town () wieder komplett. |
| Carl Maria of Weber monument, the in 1860 created bronze monument by Ernst Rietschel belonged to his most valuable achievements, it is in front of the the Picture gallery towards the Zwinger wall. |
| Carl Maria of Weber memorial place, Hosterwitz, Dresdner Str. 44. Carl Maria of Weber lived after 1818 in the former winegrower's house with his wife Caroline. Here, amongst other things, substantial parts of the "Freischütz" developed. Chamber concerts take place in the garden during the summer months, put on in the Biedermeier style. |
| Carola bridge,
traffic-politicaly today the most important Dresden road (B170) and tramway bridge (3 lines). It is designated after the wife of King Albert.
The first Carola bridge, a 500 m long stone and steel girder building, was established in 1892-95 by Hermann Klette and KarlManck. It possessed only 2 river pillars (strompfeiler). Of the 1945 bridge remained only 2 horsemen plastics by Friedrich Offermann at the Altstaedter bridgehead. Today's bridge was established in 1967-71 by Eckardt Thuermer, Rolf Berger and Michael Franke with an overall length of 375 m. It has a span of 120 m. From its completion to 1990 it carried the name "Dr.-Rudolf-Friedrichs-Brücke". |
| Carolaschlösschen, Carola lake,
popular tourist café at the car pond of the same name in the park Großer Garten. In 1895 originally established as a 2-floor-building, only the ground floor was rebuilt after the war destruction. For many years (also still after the Change) with morbid GDR charm, it was in 1999 comprehensively reorganized.
Since December 2004 has in the again supplemented first upper floor the new mediterran restaurant opened. |
| Carolinum,
an 8-story apartment block built around 1965 on what was then Amalienstrasse (today part of St.Petersburger Strasse), which was built around the same time a second neighboring residential row and the two 12-story tourist hotels on the Terrassenufer were created. What is striking is the (untypical GDR) bend of 110° into Pillnitzer Strasse. Typical of all buildings was the exterior cladding with ceramic tiles.
In 2006/07, the residential area of the Gagfah was completely renovated; the building received, among other things, a plastered facade, a porter service, a guest apartment and its nearby Carolabrücke appropriate name. |
| Carrée at the Frauenkirche, Proprietary name of a complex built in 2004/06 by VVK Vermögens- und Verwaltungskanzlei zu Dresden GmbH, primarily based on historical models, in Quarter 2, east of the Frauenkirche. It includes the houses Zum Schwan and Zur Glocke as well as the buildings Rampische Strasse 1 to 7, all of which are baroque in style model were built. Only the two houses on Salzgasse are successful contemporary additions. Behind the apartments in the mansard roofs are modern roof terraces with excellent views of the Frauenkirche. |
| Casino, see Officers' mess (Marienallee) |
| Castle ..., see Schloss ... |
| Castles, see spcial page Castles |
| Central-Theater,
1900 of Lossow and Viehweger in effusive neo-baroque forms established operetta and revue theatre at the road Waisenhausstraße, in 1945 destroyed. |
| Centrum-Galerie,
new shopping and entertainment center on Prager Strasse based on plans by the Dresden architect Peter Kulka. He emerged as the winner of a competition in 2006. The name and honeycomb cladding are reminiscent of the former Centrum-Warenhaus, which stood here until it was demolished in 2006. However, the original honeycombs do not decorate the complex - as originally intended - but only redesigned ones. 120 stores have been built on a total area of around 52,000 m², including the Karstadt sports store and a P&C “Weltstadtkaufhaus”. In addition to the shops, there are restaurants, a fitness studio and a daycare center. On August 7th, 2008 there was topping-out ceremony at the Center Gallery, on September 17th, 2009 the new Center Gallery opened. In 2012/13, a comprehensive renovation was carried out inside the gallery, which was intended to eliminate the weaknesses of the previous design. |
| Centrum-Warenhaus,
The former Centrum department store on Prager Strasse was built in 1973-78 according to plans by the Hungarian architect Ferenc Simon and Ivan Fokvar built. At the time it was built, it was considered the most attractive department store in the GDR due to its equipment (escalators, air conditioning). Its honeycomb-shaped aluminum curtain wall is striking; only the shop window zone, set back 3 m all around, brings some transparency to the otherwise windowless building.
After the fall of the Wall, the house was taken over by Karstadt, and after its merger with Hertie, it ran under the name Hertie for a few years. Karstadt politics and the flood of 2002 took a toll on the house, and in recent years it has been run down into an unsightly bargain market. The house was closed on June 30, 2006. Demolition of the old department store began in January 2007.
The first prize in a competition for the new forum in June 2006 went to the Dresden architect Peter Kulka.
The project was carried out until 2008 by the Dutch project developer Multi Development Germany GmbH in collaboration with "Karstadt Immobilien AG & Co. KG" |
| Chinesischer Pavillon (Chinese Pavilion),
In 1911, the Empire of China built its exhibition pavilion at the 1st International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden in the style of a Chinese villa. This was bought in 1912 by the then independent community Weißer Hirsch and designed by the architect Max Müller rebuilt the town hall garden as a reading hall with a café.
It closed in 1943, reopened in 1951 as a restaurant and in 1961 as a reading café. "Time in the picture". 1992-1997 was here with the "Jasmin" the first Chinese restaurant in Dresden, the pavilion burned down in 1997. There has been an association since 2005 () to restore it as a center for German-Chinese contacts.. |
| Cholerabrunnen, 15.2 m high (neo)gotic fountain on the road Sophienstraße, in front of the side wing of the Taschenbergpalais. It was created 1843 by Selig after a draft of Gottfried Semper in rememberance of the victims of the illness Cholera whcih affected between 1840-41 the whole of Saxonia but fortunately spared Dresden. The fountain initially stood at Postplatz and was moved to its current location in 1927. |
| Christophoruskirche (Wilschdorf),
The oldest church in today's city area is a simple plastered building with a gable roof and eight-sided roof turret and houses Dresden's oldest Gothic frescoes as well as Dresden's oldest bells (3 bells, 1250, 1400 and cast in the 15th century). The Wegscheider organ from 1995 was based on a baroque model.
In 2006, the Wilschdorf parish merged with that of Rähnitz to form the Christophorus parish of Wilschdorf/Rähnitz. |
| Christuskirche / Christ church,
built in 1905-07 by Schilling and Gräbner as a monumental art nouveau church in Strehlen. The church, standing on a hill (the earlier Franconia mountain) became with its two 66 m high towers the landmark of the area and it is considered to be the first modern church building in Germany after overcoming the "historicism". It possesses an organ, built in 1905 by the Dresden organ building firm "Brothers Jehmlich". The Christ church was strongly damaged in 1945, was re-consecrated in 1951.
Opposite the church stands the in 1937 built community center, with a ridge turret, which possesses a much-used lecture hall.
In the year of the Change in 1989 the Christ church, besides the church Kreuzkirche played among other things an outstanding role in informing the citizenry about the current happenings.
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| Christuskirche / Christ church Klotzsche-Königswald,
1905-1907 for the new district of Königswald of the then still independent municipality Klotzsche by Woldemar Kandler built, the organ comes from Gebr. Jehmlich, Dresden.
An exterior renovation took place in 1977, and in 2002 the painting was renewed and the organ was completely overhauled. |
| Churches, see special page Churches / Kirchen |
| Cockerwiese,
Large open space in the Pirnaische Vorstadt between Bl&uum;her- and Lennéstrasse as well as Grunaer Strasse and Lingnerallee. The northern, smaller part was built with Wilhelminian style villas until 1945, the southern part was part of the Güntzwiese green area, which up to today's Glücksgas -Stadium were enough.
The open space takes its current colloquial name after Joe Cocker, who gave a big concert there in 1988. On October 26, 1989, 100,000 people took part in a demonstration on the Cockerwiese and sought dialogue. with city officials. From 2004 to 2008, the Sea Life Center, one of the world's largest mobile seawater aquariums, was located here. Circus performances and other events occasionally take place here. |
| Comödie Dresden, new name from January 1, 2011 of the largest Saxon private theater located in the World Trade Center after the previous Comedy. |
| Coschütz (district) see special page Coschütz |
| Coselpalais,
1744-46 by Johann Christoph Knöffel for himself on the site of the old powder tower just east of the Frauenkirche erected building. During the Seven Years' War in 1760, it was hit by cannonballs during the siege by the Prussians and was badly damaged.
In 1762-64 it was built by Julius Heinrich Schwarze for the son August the Strong, Count Friedrich August Cosel to the baroque city palace with courtyard. In the middle of the 19th century, the building came into private ownership and served first as a “Russian Hotel” and then as a police building. In 1945 the main building was completely destroyed. The side wings of the courtyard were restored between 1972 and 1975, the palace itself in 1999/2000. The interior was partly modern or built using modern means. Today the palace houses, among other things, a beautiful café, a cellar restaurant, the Dresdner Piano-Salon GmbH and office floors. 3 historical photos from the Coselpalais |
| Coswig, Neighboring town, see special page Coswig |
| Cotta (district) see special page Cotta |