The Landhaus is a historic building in

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

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. The house is designed to

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

region's Landstand, it was built in the

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style between 1770 and 1776 by

Friedrich August Krubsacius Friedrich August Krubsacius (21 March 1718 - 28 November 1789) was a German architect, teacher, and architectural theoretician. He was born at Dresden. In 1755 he was made court architect to the Electorate of Saxony, in 1764 professor of archit ...

on the site of the former

Palais Flemming-Sulkowski The Palais Flemming-Sulkowski was a Baroque city mansion in Dresden, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to ...

. In September 1775, the Obersteuerkollegium moved into it and in October the Landstand first sat there. It now houses the

Dresden City Museum Dresden City Museum () is the central city museum for the German city of Dresden. Its displays tell the 800-year story of the city and is the largest and most important of the Dresden City Museums (''Städtischen Museen Dresden''). Its art collec ...

and the

Dresden City Art Gallery The Dresden City Art Gallery () is the municipal art collection of Dresden, Germany, housed in the city's Landhaus. It was formed by the 19th and 20th century artworks of the Stadtmuseum Dresden, split off from the Museum and given a separate d ...

History

The building was constructed in the late 18th century at Pirna Gate, in the east of the historic inner city. The

bombing of Dresden The bombing of Dresden was a joint British and American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 772 heavy bombers of the Ro ...

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destroyed the building. Since the reshaping of the Dresdner streets, Wilsdruffer road was extended and broadened as a highway; part of the front garden was lost because of this. The eastern wing of the villa was eliminated in this context and the great gate of the front garden to the baroque garden was added. Landhaus Dresden Treppe

The reconstruction was carried out until 1965. Between 2005 and 2006, the building was renovated and a fire escape was added. This post-modern designed structure is controversial in Dresden.

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