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The Zwinger (Der Dresdner Zwinger) is a palace in Dresden, eastern Germany, built in Baroque style.
The location was formerly part of the Dresden fortress of which the outer wall is conserved. The name derives from the German word Zwinger (outer ward of a concentric castle); it was for the cannons that were placed between the outer wall and the major wall. The Zwinger was not enclosed until the neoclassical building by Gottfried Semper called the Semper wing was built to host the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister art gallery.
Augustus the Strong, elector of Saxony, returned from a grand tour through France and Italy in 1687–89, just at the moment that Louis XIV moved his court to Versailles. On his return to Dresden, having arranged his election as King of Poland (1697), he wanted something similarly spectacular for himself. The fortifications were no longer needed and provided readily available space for his plans. The original plans, as developed by his court architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann before 1711, covered the space of the present complex of palace and garden, and also included as gardens the space down to the Elbe River, upon which the Semper opera house and its square were built in the nineteenth century.
The Zwinger was designed by Pöppelmann and constructed in stages from 1710 to 1728. Sculpture was provided by Balthasar Permoser. The Zwinger was formally inaugurated in 1719, on the occasion of the electoral prince Frederick August’s marriage to the daughter of the Habsburg emperor, the Archduchess Maria Josepha. At the time, the outer shells of the buildings had already been erected and, with their pavilions and arcaded galleries, formed a striking backdrop to the event. It was not until the completion of their interiors in 1728, however, that they could serve their intended functions as exhibition galleries and library halls.
The building was mostly destroyed by the carpet bombing raids of 13–15 February 1945. The art collection had been evacuated before, though. After the war, in a referendum, the people of Dresden voted to restore the building and generally preferred to rebuild the glories of the city. The restoring started at the end of the year 1945. In 1951 the Zwinger was open again for visitors.
The long trail of light in the water on an already spectacular sunset made this whole thing pretty awe inspiring.
This far away Galaxy, previously undiscovered was photographed using a Nuclear Spectron Telescope witha Canon 100mm lens. Its a pproximately 23 million lightyears away and can only be seen from my Kitchen. OK, its a blank CD with water on it,
I had cause to use the outer circle 11 today, although this isn’t quite what I rode, this is 6135 and not 6134, and it’s on the anti-clockwise 11A as opposed to the 11C which I caught.
These MMC’s (6118-6145 currently at Acocks Green) are already on their second employment here, they were new for Route 50 which has already been upgraded. The 11A/11C currently feature these alongside a motley assortment of Volvo B7’s.
This was taken at Pineapple Bridge as the bus runs into Kings Heath.
View over Millwall Outer Dock looking east from the Docklands Sailing & Watersports Centre showing Ringwood Gardens on the right-hand-side
LANSW Outer West Met Zone Championships 2024 (Day 3)
Harold Corr Oval, Cambridge Park, NSW, Australia.
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