Coselpalais
Rococo town palace with a forecourt gate lined by twelve sandstone child figures and a crested gable.
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This guide to the Coselpalais in Dresden starts with the twelve sandstone children on its gate and the general who paid for them, Friedrich August von Cosel, son of Augustus the Strong. It follows his mother, Countess Anna Constantia von Cosel, into decades of confinement at the fortress of Stolpen, and the legends that grew up around her faith in old age. Stand by the forecourt gate, where you can see both the figures and the gable.
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