One Of The Last And Most Brilliant
Fetes Given Here Was That Given By The King Of Saxony To The Emperor
Napoleon Just Before The Russian Campaign, At Which The Emperor And Empress
Of Austria And Most Of The Sovereigns Of Germany Assisted, To Do Hommage To
The Great Conqueror.
The Schloss-gasse or Castle Street leads from the Palace into the Markt
Platz where the markets and fairs are held.
In this place, in the
Schloss-gasse and in another street parallel to it, that leads from the
porcelain Manufactory to the Grosser Platz (Grande Place), are the
finest shops and greatest display of wealth. On the Grosser Platz stands
the Frauen-Kirche, a superb Protestant church, and which may be
considered as the cathedral church of Dresden. The Platz is large. There
is great cleanliness in all the streets of Dresden, and the houses are well
built and uniform; but there are few other very prominent edifices except
those I have mentioned. On going outside the town by the gate of Pirna
stands, almost immediately on the right, on turning down a road, the
Gardens and Palace of Prince Anthony. Leaving this on your right and
proceeding along the chaussee or high road which is nearly parallel to
the river, at the distance of three-quarters mile from the Gate, stands the
Palace and Gardens called Der Grosse Garten (grand garden), which you
leave on your right, if you continue your route on the chaussee towards
Pirna. I have not yet visited the Grosse Garten.
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