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Dresden
(
Upper Sorbian
:
Drje?d?any
) is the capital of the Free State of
Saxony
. It is in the southeast of
Germany
, on the
River Elbe
near the border with the
Czech Republic
. It has an
oceanic climate
(
Cfb
in the
Koppen climate classification
).
Dresden was already settled in the
Neolithic
part of the Stone Age
, but the first written record of the city was in 1206, when Dresden began to develop as a royal residence.
Dresden was
bombed
a lot at the end of
World War II
. It was bombed by American and British bombers between 13 February and 15 February 1945. Most of the city's buildings were damaged beyond repair after the bombings. The city had to rebuild most of its buildings after the war.
In 2002 Dresden was
flooded
in Germany's so-called "century flooding".
Dresden is the
political
and
cultural
centre of Saxony. It is the seat of the
governmental
district of Dresden and of many
universities
. The city had a popiulation that exceeded 100,000 around 1852.
Dresden has about 488,000
inhabitants
(2005). Dresden forms the core of the densely-populated area of the same name in Central Europe and is a traffic junction and an economic centre. Together with the population centres of
Chemnitz
,
Zwickau
and
Leipzig
, it forms the population centre known as the
Metropolregion Saxonia Triangle
.
Dresden has got an international airport
(Flughafen Dresden-Klotzsche)
which has about 2 million passengers/year. This Airport has got daily flight connections to
Frankfurt
and
Munich
(
Luf
thansa
),
Moscow
(
Aeroflot
),
Cologne
and
Stuttgart
(germanwings),
Dusseldorf
(germanwings) as well as to
Zurich
(InterSky), Hamburg (eurowings on behalf of germanwings) and London-City (
CityJet
). The biggest station is
Dresden Hauptbahnhof
(Dresden Main station) with an ICE (
InterCityExpress
) connection to
Leipzig
,
Erfurt
,
Frankfurt
and
Wiesbaden
. There's an
EuroCity
connection to
Prague
,
Graz
and
Vienna
just as an
InterCity
connection to
Berlin
and
Hamburg
. The metropolitan of Dresden has got four highwas:
Dresden has 3
S-Bahn
(Metropolitan overground railway) lines and a big
tram
network.
Media related to
Dresden
at Wikimedia Commons
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