Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: Neustadt

One other thing I just barely managed to do while getting out of Neustadt was to buy some Neustadt beer. Neustadt is the smallest licensed brewery in Germany, supposedly, and Neustadt is one of the only, perhaps the only, place where you can find it.

After a day of searching, this was the best I could do, as I was literally running to catch my ride. I at least know it's on Bohmischestrasse now.

When I first saw the name Verdun, I assumed I was looking at a World War I memorial, but in fact, this was the earlier battle of Verdun from the Franco-Prussian War.

Here's an alternate shot to Picture 2, zoomed in and at an angle.

The previous shot was actually of the rear of the church. This is actually the front of it, at least as seen from the street. The church is behind a large park at the far outer border of Neustadt (from the looks of it).

Finally, in a last-ditch effort at the end of the day, I made one last attempt at finding the tower in Neustadt. Instead, I found this church, and I ended up being late, as I said earlier. This church does not appear to be very old, but it was interesting for its war memorial plaques, if nothing else, that primarily were for the imperial conflicts, most of them typically stupid, of the 1860's and 1870's, including the Franco-Prussian War.

On my first visit to Dresden in 2005, I found an interesting, partly ruined, church tower that had once been attached to a church...that no longer existed. I assumed it had been a victim of World War II. However, on the two most recent trips I made to Dresden, both of them in the Fall of 2011 (this was the second), I couldn't find it. I tried photographing everything that resembled it, and this tower, while also worth photographing, wasn't it. I eventually found it on Bohmischestrasse, while I was rushing to catch my ride back to Prague. In the end, I was unsuccessful at getting a good shot of the tower I wanted, and ended up with many other tower photos instead.

Here's another attempt at the previous shot, pointing up and zooming in to get more of the buildings and...no cars.

Here's another side street of the Baroque Quarter, note the street sign "Obergraben."

Here's one of the restored neighborhoods in the Baroque Quarter. Some of these restoration jobs were so new that there was still sawdust in the doorways, and some of them were being finished off by workers, in spite of it being the weekend. Few tenants had moved in yet.

Here's the unknown, unrestored building, shot with black and white film (Ilford Delta 400).

I haven't located much information on this building, and I admit that I'm doing these uploads in a hurry. It appears to be an art museum.

Here's some of the lettering, reading "Stadt Leipzig," or City of Leipzig. This is a bit mysterious, as Leipzig isn't Dresden.

One new discovery that I made on this visit was the restoration effort on the so-called "Baroque Quarter" of Dresden. Calling it a Baroque Quarter is a bit misleading, though, as most of the more famous buildings in Dresden date to the Baroque period, like the Zwinger Palace, etc. However, most of the more famous buildings were in the Altmarkt, which was destroyed in the Dresden firebombing, so they are wholly or partially rebuilt from scratch. The Baroque Quarter is far more original, although the restoration going on as of 2011 had to be thorough, as neglect had also taken its toll. This building, which was very large for the Baroque period and may not have been that old, was still awaiting restoration during my visit. It had a lot of lettering from past owners visible on the sides, though, which appeared to have been stripped in preparation for restoration.

This building was just down the street from the "Arty Building" and it appears to be more an attempt at preserving some older markings on the building for public display.

Here's a closeup.

From my very first visit in 2005, I've found Neustadt, or the "New City" in Dresden to be an interesting place to explore. There are a number of artists who live there, and some of them have painted up the buildings, not always in the form of graffiti. I don't know if this building is currently inhabited, but it appears they've made an attempt at some surrealistic painting on it. I've called it the "Arty Building" for lack of a better name. The fact is, I have no idea if it actually has a name.

This crop may be technically better than the first, but I'm still not convinced it's ideal. Notice the bikes on the left are cropped too much at the bottom, maybe, while there appears to be too much space in the lower right.