Dresden
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| Dresden | |
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| Coat of arms | Location |
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| Administration | |
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| State | Saxony |
| Admin. region | Dresden Region |
| District | Urban district |
| Lord Mayor | Lutz Vogel (Ind.) stand-in for Ingolf Roßberg (FDP) |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 328.8 km² (127 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 113 m (371 ft) |
| Population | 504,635 (31/12/2006)[1] |
| - Density | 1,535 /km² (3,975 /sq mi) |
| Other information | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | DD |
| Postal codes | 01001 - 01462 |
| Area code | 0351 |
| Website | dresden.de |
Dresden (Sorbian: Drježdźany) is the capital of the Free State of Saxony.
[change] History
Dresden was already settled in the Stoneage, but the first written record of the city was in 1206, when Dresden began to develop as a royal residence.
[change] Politics and cultural
Dresden is the political and cultural centre of Saxony. It is seat of the governmental district of Dresden and of numerous universities. The number of inhabitants of the city Dresden exceeded 100.000 in about 1852.
It was devastated after World War II. In 2002 it was flooded in Germany's so-called "century flooding".
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 forms the population centre known as the Metropolregion Saxonia triangle .
