Brühl's Terrace is a historic architectural ensemble in Dresden, which stretches high above the shore of the river Elbe. Located north of the recently rebuilt Neumarkt Square and the Frauenkirche, is one of the favourite inner-city places for walking, people watching, and having a coffee. Its name is a reference to Count Heinrich von Brühl, Minister of Elector Frederick Augustus II, who from 1737 had a city palace built on the location. In 1747 the whole terrace was given to him by the Saxon elector as a gift for the innovative introduction of a betterment tax.
After the Saxon defeat at the Battle of Leipzig and the occupation by Russian troops, military governor Prince Nikolai Grigorjevich Repnin-Wolkonski ordered the opening to the public in 1814. He charged the architect Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer with the building of a flight of stairs at the western end to reach the terrace from Castle Square and Augustus Bridge. The Brühl Palace was demolished in the course of the building of the Saxon Ständehaus in 1900. The ensemble was totally destroyed in 1945 during the Allied Bombing of Dresden.
An important buildings of Brühl's Terrace is one of three buildings of today's Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, the former Royal Academy of Arts, built by Constantin Lipsius between 1887 and 1894. Due to its form, the glass dome is known as Lemon Squeezer. On the postcard 3307 can be seen in the background Frauenkirche, about which I wrote here. In the foreground appear two paddle steamer of Sächsische Dampfschiffahrt, the oldest and biggest paddle steamer fleet in the world, formerly known as the White Fleet. All the ships have names of Saxon towns and cities or Saxon people.
About the stamp, issued to mark The 25th Anniversary of the Polish-German Youth Cooperation, I wrote here.
References
Brühl's Terrace - Wikipedia
Sender: Adrian Ilie
Sent from Dresden (Saxony / Germany), on 26.04.2019
Photo: Helmut Bruck
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