Dresden has a long history. When you look at these beautiful baroque buildings you wouldn't guess that the city was flattened in an ah controversial air attack in 1945.
Despite the communist party's dislike of kings, capitalists and religion, surprisingly many of Dresden's beautiful buildings were rebuilt under communist rule, according to the desire of the local citizens. I always thought that the communist party was much more repressive than this, but maybe this was just the case for the difficult city, Berlin, and maybe communist repression was otherwise exaggerated to some extent in the anti communist children's books of my youth.
The Frauenkirche (church of our lady) was not amongst those buildings picked for rebuilding first. I think this was more to do with money than politics though. Upon reunification a worldwide private subscription drive raised the millions necessary to leave it looking several hundred years old again.
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| Dresden's Frauenkirche from the air |
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| And from the ground. Sometimes I wish I'd had one of those fancy DSLRs with massive lenses on our trip so that I could get as good a quality shot from the air as from the ground. I just keep telling myself that it probably would have taken me the 2 years to get good photos from it while moving anyway... |
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