Loschwitz
Historic Elbe-side wine village of hillside villas, a Baroque church and a funicular railway.
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This guide to Loschwitz in Dresden follows the wine growers of its steep Elbe hillside and their long Sunday walk to a city parish church. It turns on the early seventeen hundreds, when the village finally won a church of its own and the council handed the job to George Bähr, a weaver's son who had arrived as a journeyman carpenter. You'll also hear about a quarrel over where the church should stand, and an invading Swedish army. Best heard on the road toward Wachwitz.
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