Facts about Dresden Saxony’s State Capital in Figures 2018/2019 1 Picture Credits: iStock / ZU_09: Title Page; ddpix.de: 01, 04, 07; Long Night of Science / René Paul: 02; Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP / Jürgen Lösel: 03; Dresdner Kreuzchor / Matthias Krueger: 05; pfp Architekten: 06; iStock / Jule_Berlin: 08; Lutz Hentschel / The picture shows: Tom Liebscher, canoeing, gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro: 09; iStock / TommL: 10; iStock / ewg3D: 11 2 CONTENTS Location 3 Area 4 Population 5 City Council 6 City Administration 6 Partner Cities 8 Business and Science 9 Culture and Recreation 13 Green City 18 Children and Adolescents 20 Schools and Education 22 Health and Social Affairs 25 Sports and Physical Activities 26 Transport 28 Tourism 30 History 32 „Blossom, Germany’s Florence...“ Johann Gottfried von Herder Dresden, the state capital of the Free State of Saxony, is located right in the heart of Europe, at the thoroughfare of East and West. The city’s location in the border triangle of Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic offers superb opportunities for cultural, economic, and political cooperation. LOCATION 30 km length of the Elbe River within the city limits 11 BRIDGES across the Elbe River within the city limits 01 2 dresden.de/statistik Copenhagen Hamburg Warsaw Amsterdam Berlin London Dresden 400 km 200 km 300 km 500 km Brussels Frankfurt Prague Luxembourg Paris Munich Vienna Bratislava Budapest Vaduz Bern Ljubljana Zagreb LOCATION 140 km length of city limits Northern latitude ........................................ 51° 02´ 55“ Eastern longitude ....................................... 13° 44´ 29“ Sea level (Elbe River gauging station) ........ 103 m above sea level Lowest point (Cossebaude) ........................ 101 m above sea level Highest point (Triebenberg) ....................... 383 m above sea level dresden.de/statistik 3 AREA Dresden ranks 4th in a comparison of the surface areas of large German cities – behind Berlin, Hamburg, and Cologne. 27 km East-west expansion 32,848 ha Total surface area (328.48 km2) 23 km North-south expansion which are attributable to: Residential housing space ................................................. 5,382 ha Industrial and commercial space ...................................... 2,061 ha Traffic area ......................................................................... 3,381 ha Recreational area ............................................................... 1,689 ha Farmland .......................................................................... 10,605 ha Forests ............................................................................... 7,169 ha Surface area of water bodies ............................................... 682 ha Other use ........................................................................... 1,879 ha 4 dresden.de/statistik POPULATION Dresden ranks 12th in a comparison of the population of large German cities – behind Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt on the Main, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen, Leipzig, and Bremen. 557,098 INHABITANTS Population with primary residence of whom are women .............................. 279,040 (50.1 percent) men ................................... 278,058 (49.9 percent) of whom are Protestants ........................... 78,782 (14.1 percent) Catholics ................................. 25,776 (4.6 percent) of whom are foreigners ................................41,154 (7.4 percent) Population with secondary residence ..................5,769 inhabitants Population density .......................................1,697 inhabitants/km2 Average age .........................................................................43 years Housing Number of dwellings .......................................................... 298,761 Number of households ....................................................... 301,418 Rent level (average value) ... 6 euros per square meter (base rent) Rent increase (average value) .......................... 2 percent per year Fact! About 2,500 couples got married in Dresden in 2017. Forecast The population will grow – until 2030, at an estimated 5 percent which equals 29,000 persons. Dresden anticipates to have 582,600 inhabitants by then. The largest increases are to be expected for young people aged 15 to 24 (about 28 percent), followed by senior citizens aged 60 and older (about 9 percent). dresden.de/statistik 5 CITY COUNCIL In the municipal elections on May 25, 2014, the citizens of Dresden chose a new City Council which consists of 70 seats. In accordance with the Saxon Municipal Ordinance, the Lord Mayor chairs the City Council. The next election of the City Council will be held in 2019. AfD 4 seats Allocation of Seats to FDP/ the Parliamentary Groups CITIZENS’ FACTION NON-ATTACHED 5 seats CITY COUNCILS 3 seats SPD 9 seats Oberwartha CDU 21 seats ALLIANCE 90/ THE GREENS DIE LINKE 11 seats 17 seats CITY ADMINISTRATION On July 5, 2015, the citizens of Dresden elected Dirk Hilbert (a member of the independent party Unabhängige Bürger für Dresden e. V.) as their Lord Mayor. He chairs the City Council and also heads the City Administration. The next election of the Lord Mayor will be held in 2022. 6 dresden.de/stadtrat Departments of the City Administration Finances, Personnel, and Legal Affairs ................... Dr. Peter Lames Education and Youth ........................................ Hartmut Vorjohann Public Order and Security ............................................. Detlef Sittel Culture and Tourism ......................................... Annekatrin Klepsch Employment, Social Affairs, Health, and Housing ....................................... Dr. Kristin Klaudia Kaufmann Urban Development, Construction, Transport, and Real Estate ......................Raoul Schmidt-Lamontain Environment and Municipal Utilities ......................... Eva Jähnigen City district offices City districts Weixdorf Schönborn Langebrück Klotzsche Cossebaude Loschwitz Pieschen Oberwartha Neustadt Mobschatz Gompitz Cotta Altstadt Schönfeld-Weißig Blasewitz Altfranken Plauen Leuben Prohlis City Honors ■ Honorary citizenship ■ Honorary medal ■ Honorary coin City Awards ■ Art and Promotional Award (annually) ■ Dresden Excellence Award (science; annually; together with the Dresden – City of Science network) ■ Sports and Promotional Award (annually) ■ Dresden Integration Award (annually) ■ The Most Beautiful Garden Community (annually; together with the Stadtverband Dresdner Gartenfreunde e. V. association of garden friends) ■ Dresden Poetry Prize (every 2 years) ■ Erlwein Award (architecture; every 4 years) dresden.de/rathaus 7 PARTNER CITIES Dresden maintains 13 city partnerships in Europe, Africa, America, and Asia. The alliance is lively and vibrant due to student and youth exchanges, cooperations among clubs Fact! and associations as well as Florence and Florence cooperations in business, on the Elbe River – close science, culture, politics, and ties for 40 years now administration. Future fact! In 2019, Dresden will celebrate as many as three partner city anniversaries: 60 years with Wroclaw and Coventry and 10 years with Hangzhou. Rotterdam Netherlands 1988 Hamburg Columbus/Ohio Germany USA Skopje 1987 1992 Macedonia Florence Salzburg 1967 Italy Austria St. Petersburg 1978 1991 Russia Brazzaville Strasbourg 1961 Congo France 1990 Coventry 1975 United Kingdom Ostrava Wroclaw Czech Hangzhou Poland Republic China 1959 1971 2009 8 dresden.de/partnerstaedte BUSINESS AND SCIENCE Every year in June: The Long Night of Science 02 For almost 30 years now, Dresden has been investing into high tech and the associated research. Specific strong points are found in the superb networks that exist between business and science, in the available pool of young professionals, and in interdisciplin- ary cooperation. This is accompanied by the versatile mixture of industrial branches and high-performance crafts. Today, Saxony’s state capital is a microelectronics venue that is acknowledged around the globe and assumes a leading role in Europe. Every second chip produced in Europe comes from Dresden. The branch unites about 1,500 companies, 48,000 employees, and an annual turnover of 13 billion euros under its roof in Dresden. Dresden also exhibits the highest density of researchers in all of Germany. Nowhere else do so many scientists work at one location – based on the total number of employees; all told, about a third. And when it comes to the total number of research facilities, Dresden also heads the field in– 5th place behind Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, and Cologne. 9 Skilled Employees, Branches 258,756 EMPLOYEES 03 who work in: Public administration, education, health care, and social services .................................................................78,110 Trade, transport, hotels and restaurants ..............................51,296 Freelance, scientific, and technical services .........................49,251 The manufacturing industry ..................................................34,371 The arts, entertainment, and other services ........................12,693 Information, communication ................................................12,326 The construction industry .....................................................10,976 Financial and insurance services ............................................. 5,591 Real estate and housing .......................................................... 3,708 Agriculture,