Königstraße
Baroque boulevard of uniform pale townhouses and mansard roofs, aligned on a royal palace.
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This guide to Königstraße in Dresden's Neustadt is about the houses themselves: the building rules that shaped them in the eighteenth century, and the royal palace every roofline had to bow to. It touches the steep mansard roofs and the tax logic hidden under them, and the East German decades when the quarter's future was far from certain. Stand mid-street with a view toward the Japanese Palace.
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