Timeline of Dresden

Timeline of the history of Dresden, Saxony, Germany

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dresden, Saxony, Germany.

Prior to 18th century

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Dresden, 16th century
  • 1206 – First documentation of Dražďany.[1]
  • 1215 – Nikolaikirche founded.
  • 1272 – Franziskanerkloster founded.
  • 1309 – City seal incorporates coat of arms of Dresden.
  • 1350 – first documentation of Altendresden (today Innere Neustadt) at the northern side of the Elbe.
  • 1351 – Sophienkirche built.
  • 1388 – Kreuzkirche consecrated.
  • 1400 – Busmannkapelle built.
  • 1409 – Armory established.
  • 1434 – Striezelmarkt occurring.
  • 1524 - Printing press in operation.[2]
  • 1530 – City expands.
  • 1548 – Orchestra founded.
  • 1563 – Dresdner Zeughaus [de] built.[3]
  • 1589 – Johanneum built.[3]
  • 1666 – Premiere of Schütz's St Matthew Passion.[4]
  • 1667 – Opera house opens.[4]
  • 1678 - "Elector of Saxony's Players" dramatic troupe(de) headquartered in Dresden (approximate date).[5]
  • 1695 – Parade of Frederick Augustus I.[6][7]
  • 1697 – Population: 40,000 (approximate).[8]
  • 1700 – Von Tschirnhaus glassworks set up.[9]

18th century

Dresden by Bernardo Bellotto, 1748

19th century

The Semperoper opera house opened in its current form in 1878

20th century

1900-1945

Dresden approximately in 1900
New Market Square in 1939
  • 1939
  • 1940 – Hans Nieland becomes mayor.
  • 1942
  • 1944
    • 15 September: Subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp founded at the Railway Repair Works. Its prisoners were mostly Poles and Russians.[38]
    • 9 October: Two women subcamps of Flossenbürg founded at the Goehle-Werk and Universelle factories. Its prisoners were mostly Poles, Russians and Germans.[39][40]
    • 22 October: Dresden-Reick subcamp of Flossenbürg founded. Its prisoners were mostly Polish, Russian and Jewish women.[41]
    • 24 November: Dresden-Bernsdorf subcamp of Flossenbürg founded. Its prisoners were mostly Polish-Jewish men, women and children.[42]
  • 1945
    • 13–14 February: Aerial bombing by Allied forces.[43]
    • 19 February: Subcamp of Flossenbürg at the Railway Repair Works dissolved. Prisoners deported to the main Flossenbürg camp.[38]
    • 24 March: Dresden-Reichsbahn subcamp of Flossenbürg founded. Its prisoners were mostly Polish, Jewish and Russian men.[44]
    • April: Goehle-Werk, Bernsdorf, Reichsbahn, Universelle and SS Engineer's Barracks subcamps of Flossenbürg dissolved. Prisoners either deported or mostly sent on death marches to various other locations.[35][39][40][42][44]
    • 22–27 April: Battle of Dresden
    • April: Reick subcamp of Flossenbürg dissolved. Prisoners sent on a death march to the Ore Mountains.[41]
    • 8 May: Russians take city.[15]

1946-1990s

21st century

Rebuilding of the Frauenkirche in 2004
Dresden in 2010
The Bundeswehr Military History Museum

See also

Other cities in the state of Saxony:

References

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This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

  • John Russell (1828), "Dresden", A Tour in Germany, and Some of the Southern Provinces of the Austrian Empire, in 1820, 1821, 1822, Edinburgh: Constable, OCLC 614379840
  • David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Dresden". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
  • Mariana Starke (1839), "Dresden", Travels in Europe (9th ed.), Paris: A. and W. Galignani
  • William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Dresden, Saxony". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949.
  • "Dresden", Northern Germany (5th ed.), Coblenz: Karl Baedeker, 1873, OCLC 5947482
  • Guide to Dresden, its Buildings, Institutions and Environs, Dresden: Herman Burdach, 1880, OCLC 2838150, OL 24467281M
  • Guide to the Royal Collections of Dresden, translated by Fox, C.S., Dresden: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 1897, OL 7082856M
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  • Susanne Vees-Gulani (2008). "The politics of new beginnings: the continued exclusion of the Nazi past in Dresden's cityscape". In Gavriel David Rosenfeld; Paul B. Jaskot (eds.). Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past. US: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-11611-9 – via HathiTrust. (fulltext)

in German

  • "Dresden". Topographia Germaniae (in German). Vol. Topographia Superioris Saxoniae, Thüringiae, Misniae et Lusatiae. Frankfurt. 1650. p. 43+. c. 1650/1690
  • "Dresden". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1908. pp. 428–439.
  • P. Krauss und E. Uetrecht, ed. (1913). "Dresden". Meyers Deutscher Städteatlas [Meyer's Atlas of German Cities] (in German). Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut.
  • Wolfgang Adam; Siegrid Westphal, eds. (2012). "Dresden". Handbuch kultureller Zentren der Frühen Neuzeit: Städte und Residenzen im alten deutschen Sprachraum (in German). De Gruyter. pp. 417+. ISBN 978-3-11-029555-9.

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