Bühlau (Dresden)

Bühlau is a quarter in the east of the Saxon capital Dresden and belongs to the statistical quarter . It lies in the outside of the Elbe valley between the Dresden Heath and the Schoenfeld Upland. It was first mentioned in 1349, in 1839 it formed a country commune together with and in 1921 it became into Dresden. Today, Buehlau is part of one of the .

Geography[]

Buehlau is located seven kilometres to the east of Dresden's city centre, the (Innere Altstadt). It lies an average altitude of about 240 metres above sea level, although the terrain is very bumpy. The lowest point of Buehlau is located at the Loschwitzgrund (lit. Loschwitz Ground) at abundant 200 metres above sea level. In the southeast of the municipal area, the land rises to more than 300 metres above sea level at the Schoenfeld Upland. In the north, Buehlau matches up to the edge of the Dresden Heath, where the (Bühlauer Waldgärten) are. In the west it is bordered along the Nachtfluegelweg (lit. Night Wings Way) to the (lit. White Deer) and amounting to Neugersdorfer Strasse (lit. Neugersdorf Street) to . In the southwest it borders to . South of the municipal area lies (Gönnsdorf); which is part of the district (Schönfeld-Weißig); in the east of Buehlau it borders at (Weißig). Together with the Weisser Hirsch, Rochwitz, and parts of Loschwitz, Bühlau forms the statistical district Buehlau/Weisser Hirsch, which belongs to the .

A tram of line 11 onto Buehlau

Bühlau's municipal area is divided into multiple parts. In the southeast is the former quarter Quohren. In the centre, at the Ullersdorfer Platz/Quohrener Strasse (lit. Ullersdorf Place/Quohren Street) is the village core located in a shallow hollow, the old Oberdorf (altes Oberdorf). With the neighbouring village of Quohren, it enjoys a common protection status because of the still existing ancient village buildings in the "preservation statute for historic village centres in the city of Dresden."^[1] The residential area (villa quarter) of New Buehlau (Neubühlau) is located in the north and west.

The most important street of the quarter is the Bautzner Landstrasse (lit. Bautzen Land Street), which runs as Bundesstrasse 6 (lit. State Street 6) in east-west direction through Bühlau unto the Mordgrundbruecke (lit. Murder Ground Bridge), where it is called then called Bautzner Strasse (lit. Bautzen Street). It is served by the tram line 11. On the Ullersdorfer Platz, the Ullersdorfer Landstrasse (lit. Ullersdorf Land Street) branches off (Staatsstraße 181) off in the direction of Radeberg. A more major road link is the basic Road downhill leading miracle as (lit. State Street 167) through the Loschwitzgrund to Loschwitz to the Blue Wonder (Blaues Wunder). Several bus routes, including the 61 and 84 of the DVB, as well as several lines of and the head for Bühlau.^[2]

History[]

Population development[]

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Roland Lorenz: Stadtteilgeschichten Bühlau, Hochland-Verlag Pappritz, ISBN 3-934047-24-6
• Roland Lorenz: Begegnungen mit Bühlau, Hochland-Verlag Pappritz, ISBN 3-934047-41-6.
• Roland Lorenz: Impressionen von Bühlau, Hochland-Verlag Pappritz, ISBN 3-934047-30-0.
• Folke Stimmel, Reinhardt Eigenwill et al.: Stadtlexikon Dresden, Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994.

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bühlau (Dresden).

• Bühlau (Dresden) in the Digital Historic Index of Places in Saxony (Digitales Historisches Ortsverzeichnis von Sachsen) (in German)
• Quarter history (in German)
• Buehlau and Quohren^{[permanent dead link]} (in German)
• Pictures (in German)

Coordinates: 51°03′40″N 13°50′55″E / 51.06111°N 13.84861°E / 51.06111; 13.84861