Loschwitz is a borough ('' Stadtbezirk'') of

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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, incorporated in 1921. It consists of ten quarters (''Stadtteile''): Loschwitz is a villa quarter located at the slopes north of the

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river. At the top of the hillside is the quarter of Weißer Hirsch, named after a former inn erected in 1685 by the Saxon ''kapellmeister''

Christoph Bernhard Christoph Bernhard (1 January 1628 – 14 November 1692) was born in Kolberg, Pomerania, and died in Dresden. He was a German Baroque composer and musician. He studied with former Sweelinck-pupil Paul Siefert in Danzig (now Gdańsk) and in W ...

, where in 1888 the naturopathic physician

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opened a sanatorium. The quarters of Wachwitz and Pillnitz are adjacent in the east and the ''Rosengarten'' park in the west. Loschwitz is connected with the borough of Blasewitz south of the Elbe by the Blue Wonder (''Blaues Wunder'') bridge. Furthermore, the borough encompasses large parts of the Dresden Heath, the city's forest. The old village of Loschwitz, a

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-growing area since the 11th century, was first mentioned in a 1227 deed. About 1660 Elector John George II of Saxony had several

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s laid out at the hillside, that soon became a fashionable recreational and residential area for the Dresden nobility and wealthy bourgeois like the composer

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or the goldsmith Johann Melchior Dinglinger. The author Christian Gottfried Körner had a cottage within the vineyards, where his guest

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wrote the '' Ode to Joy'' in 1785. About 1800 James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater acquired large estates, where from 1850 the ''Elbschlösser'' (Elbe Castles) were erected: Albrechtsberg Palace and Villa Stockhausen (''Lingnerschloss'') of Prince Albert of Prussia as well as Eckberg Castle, finished in 1861. The

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is of especial architectural and historical interest, as is the churchyard, for the many burials of notable people. It was full by about 1800 and was replaced by Loschwitz Cemetery. A popular place is the restaurant ''Luisenhof'', built in 1895 and named after Crown Princess Luise of Saxony. The "Dresden balcony" offers a panoramic view of the city and the Elbe valley. Nearby is the Standseilbahn Dresden funicular railway as well as the Schwebebahn Dresden, the oldest suspension railway of the world, which both are still in use. Nobility and rich citizens of Dresden used to live in Loschwitz such as Theodor Körner,

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and Gerhard von Kügelgen. A famous inhabitant of Weißer Hirsch was the inventor

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with his institute for scientific research. One of his neighbours was the retired officer

Friedrich Paulus Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Paulus (23 September 1890 – 1 February 1957) was a German ''Generalfeldmarschall'' (Field Marshal) during World War II who is best known for his surrender of the German 6th Army (Wehrmacht), 6th Army during the Battle ...

, commander in the Battle of Stalingrad, who died here in 1957. Also a number of famous people stayed in Loschwitz for a short time:

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, Heinrich von Kleist, Ernst Moritz Arndt,

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Ludwig Tieck Johann Ludwig Tieck (; ; 31 May 177328 April 1853) was a German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic. He was one of the founding fathers of the Romanticism, Romantic movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Early life Tieck w ...

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and

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, Leopold Auer and Anton Graff. Between the 1920s and 1930s Loschwitz used to be the most expensive living area of all Europe. This is evidenced in the surviving funicular railway, originally placed as an aid purely to residents in ascending the steep slopes of the river valley, and only recently having acquired novelty as a minor tourist attraction. Recently restored and operated by the local public transportation agency.

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Dresdner-Stadtteile.de
(About 100 Dresden city quarters, a private website in German) {{Authority control Boroughs and quarters of Dresden City districts in Germany

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