Dresden Zwinger
Baroque palace courtyard of ornate pavilions and galleries, with a carillon of porcelain bells.
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This guide to the Dresden Zwinger in Dresden listens to the glassy chime of its carillon pavilion and asks why a palace clock rings with porcelain instead of bronze. It follows the Meissen manufactory and its director Max Adolf Pfeiffer from a failed eighteenth-century experiment to a church tower and an exhibition hall in the years before nineteen thirty-three. Stand facing the pavilion with the clock on the courtyard's southeast side and wait for the quarter hour.
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