Schloss Übigau
Baroque riverside palace with Elbe loggias, later the works where a pioneering steam locomotive was built.
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This guide to Schloss Übigau in Dresden follows Johann Andreas Schubert, a professor at the city's technical school, on an April day in eighteen thirty-nine when Germany's first long-distance railway opened. It looks at the baroque Elbe palace he turned into the offices and design rooms of a young machine works, and at the gamble of building a locomotive with no contract and little German experience. Best heard from the riverside, where you can see the boarded loggias of the upper floor.
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