Yenidze
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Yenidze is the name of a former cigarette factory building in Dresden, Germany. It was built sometime in the years of 1908-1909 and is used today as an office building. It is noted for its exotic outer design which is similar to the design of a mosque.
The name "Yenidze" derives from the tobacco cultivation area of Yenidze, a place in the Grecian part of Macedonia today known as Giannitsa. "Yenidze" was also the name of the tobacco importing company that built the factory. At the time of the construction, the factory was under the Turkish administration and wanted a factory for their imported eastern tobacco to include Near-Eastern design elements. The importer for the company, Hugo Zietz, wanted the factory to be built near the railway route near the Dresden city center.
The architect Martin Hammitzsch designed the building after suggestions from Zietz. It has large, colored dome chimneys which resemble minarettes. It was sometimes referred to as the "tobacco mosque", which the term today is officially no longer used, because it is not a mosque. It is a unique historical feature of the city of Dresden.
Because it is an unusual architectural monument for the city, the building was restored in 1996 and got a new use. The area underneath the dome is used to tell stories to people while parts of it are used for corporate offices.
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