However, its origins and tradition go back to 1877, when the later Saxon Railway Museum began collecting collections in the Dresden-Neustadt train station. Only some of its holdings remained after 1945 and were the first exhibits to be taken over into the future transport museum. In 1990 the facility became the State Museum of the Free State of Saxony.

Today, the Transport Museum shows exhibitions on the railway, motor vehicles and bicycles, urban transport, shipping and air transport.

In addition to the state capital Dresden, the transport association includes the districts Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains and Meißen and the western part of the district Bautzen
(Altkreis Kamenz and formerly independent city of Hoyerswerda).

The network area is divided into 21 tariff zones, the largest of which extends over the entire urban area of Dresden and is the only one more expensive than all the others.

In addition to the Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe AG, the DB Regio Süddost (including the S-Bahn Dresden) as well as various regional bus companies to the network. In the VVO area there are some means of transport that are interesting for tourists, such as two steam-operated Narrow gauge railways (750 mm) Lößnitztalbahn and Weißeritztalbahn, an electrically operated overland tram (Kirnitzschtalbahn, 1000 mm), the two mountain railways in Dresden (Funicular Railway and Suspension railwayn) and an elevator in Bad Schandau.

The organ, which was also completed in 1909, comes from the Dresden organ building company Julius Jahn & Sohn. It was rebuilt in 1939 according to the principles of neo-baroque organ building and renovated in 2008/2009 - largely closer to the original by Johannes Jahn.

Entfernt erinnert in seinen Grundformen der gegenüberliegende moderne Neubau an der Ecke Dr.-Külz-Ring / Seestraße an das Victoriahaus.

Today the Messe Dresden is located in part of the renovated building, and the sports high school is also located on the former slaughterhouse site. The OSTRLE, an exhibition for contemporary art, takes place every year in the partly still desolate halls to the west of the trade fair.

It is the only one of the historical suburbs of which small remnants survived the transformations, especially in the Wilhelminian era, as well as the destruction in 1945. These include the Schiehaus (today a restaurant with a beer garden) and the Environmental Center, also with a restaurant. The Schuetzenplatz with its green area was still called a cattle pasture around 1833.

In 1835 the cattle pasture community was combined with three other communities to form the Wilsdruffer Vorstadt.

Looking from Schloßplatz, you can see the allegorical sculptures "Morning", "Noon", "Night" and "Evening", starting clockwise at the top left. Since 1908, bronze casts have replaced the original sandstone figures.

Note: The villas listed below represent only a small selection from different eras and styles!

The mansion n Striesen became well known as domicile of the NS gau leader of Saxonia, Mutschmann, therefore the name "Mutschmann mansion".

The 4th primary school “Am Rosengarten” is now located on the property at Löwenstraße 2.

For the same client, Semper also built the Palais Oppenheim at Bügerwiese 5-7 in 1845-48, which was also destroyed in 1945 and later demolished.

Owned by the municipality since 1937, the Municipal Conservatory moved in in 1945. Early musical education began here in 1965, and today the house is run by the Saxon State High School for Music Dresden ( ) used.

One of
was located here from the 1930s until 1987 Wilhelm Rübsamen was founded and run from 1959 to 1987 by his daughter Ursula Rübsamen continued gynecological clinic and maternity hospital.

Today, the manor house is home to a small but fine hotel, while the garden house houses a gourmet restaurant.

Following its renovation in 1995, the building was temporarily used by the Dresden International School, and since 2008 it has been home to the Institute for Education and Counselling (IBB, ) has been based here with a private all-day school.

Built in 1873 for the Torgau deacon Gustav Theodor Kessler. After 1875, there were several changes of ownership before the musician
Eugen d'Albert purchased the villa in 1891 and moved it with his wife, the pianist Teresa Carreño inhabited until 1896. In 1896 it was purchased by the Swiss Paul Julius Matter, who was responsible for the Japanese tea house. In 1961, his widow's bequest passed it on to the city of Coswig, which converted it into a six-family residential building in 1968.

2000-2002 Renovation and reopening as an event location and memorial for the two musicians.

In 2005/06, the entire property was extensively refurbished in line with its listed status. Modern connecting buildings with glass walls were inserted between the renovated main building and the two newly constructed side buildings.

The house near Blasewitz Waldpark is characterised by irregular windows and roof shapes, half-timbering and a beautiful sandstone bay window.

Another villa in a similar style was located at what is now Würzburger Straße 75.

• Therese-Malten-Villa
• Lingnervilla

However, the residential areas further away from the center remained largely undestroyed. Such villa districts, some of which characterize the entire district, are Blasewitz, Weißer Hirsch, Prussian Quarter, partly Loschwitz, Gruna, Strehlen and Plauen.

Typical Cube House District, on the other hand, include Striesen, Löbtau and Cotta

1919 as a municipal “Volkshochschule Association”. Founded in Dresden, the Dresden Adult Education Center took over the Watin Folk Art School as an independent department in 1926. After bankruptcy proceedings, the Dresden Adult Education Center closed in 1933, the last with a democratic tradition in Germany.

In May 1945 a group wanted to organize the “Dresden Adult Education Center 1945”. Newly founded, October 1945, the city council decided to found the Dresden Adult Education Center as a municipal institution, Victor Klemperer becomes scientific director.

After changing school locations (as well as changing the educational mission several times), in 1993 the school moved to Seidnitz to the former 69th School on Schilfweg,, the branch Gorbitz opens in 1996. Because of the dilapidated condition of the building in Seidnitz, the adult education center moved to Annenstrasse in 2016.

In GDR times even the park called Großer Garten carried this title.

Sculpture created in 1986 by Wolf-Eike Kuntsche on Prager Strasse. The sculpture, which had been in storage since the mid-1990s, was renovated and re-erected in 2004 as part of the redesign of the open spaces.