Mickten is a quarter (Stadtteil) of the city of 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...

. It is part of the northwestern borough (Ortsamtsbereich) of Pieschen.

The historic village at the road to Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

 north of the Elbe

Elbe

The Elbe is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Krkonoše Mountains of the northwestern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia , then Germany and flowing into the North Sea at Cuxhaven, 110 km northwest of Hamburg...

 river was incorporated into Dresden in 1903. From 1990 a new commercial area between Mickten and the neighbouring Kaditz quarter was developed including the Elbe Park mall with numerous shops and a cinema

Movie theater

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. The infrastructure of Mickten was severely damaged by the 2002 Elbe floods

2002 European floods

In August 2002 a 100-year flood caused by over a week of continuous heavy rains ravaged Europe, killing dozens, dispossessing thousands, and causing damage of billions of euros in the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Croatia....

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From 1946 Mickten had a football club called SG Mickten

SG Mickten

SG Mickten were a football club from the Mickten district of Dresden. They were a predecessor side to the modern Dresdner SC, not to be confused with the original Dresdner SC that won some national titels before the war. They were a Stasi sponsored team like most Dresdner teams back then and East...

 that merged with the Dresdner SC

Dresdner SC

Dresdner SC is a German multisport club playing in Dresden, Saxony. Founded on 30 April 1898, the club was a founding member of the German Football Association in 1900...

in 1954.