The Landhaus is a historical building in Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

, eastern Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

. Designed to house the Saxony

Duchy of Saxony

The medieval Duchy of Saxony was a late Early Middle Ages "Carolingian stem duchy" covering the greater part of Northern Germany. It covered the area of the modern German states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Saxony-Anhalt and most of Schleswig-Holstein...

 region's Landstand

Landtag

A Landtag is a representative assembly or parliament in German-speaking countries with some legislative authority.- Name :...

, it was built in the Baroque

Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and...

 style between 1770 and 1776 by Friedrich August Krubsacius

Friedrich August Krubsacius

Friedrich August Krubsacius was a German architect and architectural theoretician.He was born at Dresden. In 1755 he was made court architect to the Duchy of Saxony, in 1764 professor of architecture at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and in 1776 chief architect of Saxony....

 on the site of the former Palais Flemming-Sulkowski

Palais Flemming-Sulkowski

The Palais Flemming-Sulkowski was a Baroque city mansion in Dresden, eastern Germany. It stood on the Inneren Pirnaischen Gasse, on the site now occupied by the city's Landhaus....

. In September 1775 the Obersteuerkollegium moved into it and in October the Landstand first sat there. It now houses the Dresden City Museum

Dresden City Museum

Dresden City Museum is the central city museum for the German city of Dresden. Its displays tell the 800-year story of the city and is the largest and most important of the Dresden State Museums...

 and Dresden City Art Gallery

Dresden City Art Gallery

The Dresden City Art Gallery is the city art collection of Dresden, housed in the city's Landhaus. It was formed by the 19th and 20th century artworks in the Dresden City Museum, split off from the Museum and given a separate display in 2000. In 2002 Dr...

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History

The building was constructed in the late 18th century at Pirna Gate, in the east of the historic inner city. The Bombing of Dresden

Bombing of Dresden in World War II

The Bombing of Dresden was a military bombing by the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force and as part of the Allied forces between 13 February and 15 February 1945 in the Second World War...

 in World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

destroyed the building. Since the reshaping of the Dresdner streets Wilsdruffer road was extended and broadened as a highway; part of the front garden was lost because of this. The eastern wing of the villa was eliminated in this context and the great gate of the front garden to the baroque garden was added.

The reconstruction was carried out until 1965. Between 2005 and 2006 the building was renovated and provided with a rescue steps. This post-modern designed structure is controversial in Dresden.

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