Statistics of Dresden

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Statistics, facts and figures of Dresden, Germany.

Dresden
Coat of arms of Dresden Location of Dresden in Germany
Country Germany
State Saxony
Administrative region Dresden
District urban district
Population 487.199
Area 328.30 km²
Population density 1,523 /km²
Elevation 113 m
Coordinates 51°02′N 13°44′E / 51.033, 13.733Coordinates: 51°02′N 13°44′E / 51.033, 13.733
Postal code 01001 to 01462
Area code 0351
Licence plate code DD
Mayor Lutz Vogel (stand-in for Ingolf Roßberg)
Website dresden.de

Contents

[edit] Geography

[edit] Location

  • Sea-height (water level gauge) 102,73m over normal zero
  • Old Market (Altmarkt) 113 m over normal zero
  • Topmost point (Triebenberg) 383 m over normal zero
  • Deepest point (Cossebaude) 101 m over normal zero
  • Length of the Elbe 139,65 km
  • within city-limits
  • Elbe-bridges within city-limits 9

[edit] Surface

  • Total surface 328,30 km² (32830 ha)
  • Building-free.surfaces 8143 ha
  • Business-surface 239 ha
  • Recreation Area 1110 ha
  • Traffic-surface 3165 ha
  • Agriculture-surfaces 11535 ha
  • Woodlands 7159 ha
  • Trees in the city-center 47.031 = 30.000 as less as 1944
  • Surfaces of other utilization 830 ha
  • Expansion North-South 22'6 km - East-West 27'1 km

[edit] Nature reserves

  • 4 reservations (332)
  • 12 conservation-areas (11.435 ha)
  • 15 protected landscape-well-shares (71 ha)
  • 110 nature-monuments (140 ha)
  • 10 flora and fauna habitat areas (1.883 ha)
  • 8 drinking water protection-areas (2.093 ha)
  • Floodplain (2.502 ha)

[edit] Population

Dresden is Germany’s 15th largest city.

Residential-justifiable population 510.071 inhabitants
Population 487.199 inhabitants
Growth rate of population 0.61%
Women 251,347 (51,6 %)
Men 235,852 (48,4 %)

Dresden has a population density of 1484 per km².

[edit] Confession

[edit] Census

  • Number of apartments 293,619
  • Number of households 264,665
  • Single-person Households 124,782
  • Households with two or more people 139,835

[edit] Economy and administration

[edit] Commercial enterprise

  • Trade-continuance 42.296
  • Commerce 11.595 (27,4%)
  • Trade 5.884 (13,9%)
  • Industrial 0.790 (1,9%)
  • Other Services 24.027 (56,8%)

[edit] Administrations, courts and public services

[edit] Town twinning

[edit] Technology, science and education

[edit] Research institutions

  • 11 Institutes of Fraunhofer Company (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft)
  • 5 Institutes of the Science-Community Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz)
  • Research-Center of the German research community
  • Bio-innovation-center Dresden
  • Technno-park Dresden

[edit] Secondary education

  • 71 Primary schools
  • 35 Real- and Hauptschules
  • 15 Gymnasiums
  • 13 Support School
  • 1 Occupation-prapatory education place
  • 12 Vocational school-centers (in it 12 vocational schools, 6 vocational high schools, 6 technical high *schools, 4 technical colleges, 6 training colleges, 6 training technical colleges, 5 facilities for the *occupation-preparation-year, 7 facilities for the occupation-reason-educational-year and 2 vocational support schools)
  • 1 medical training colleague
  • 1 evening secondary school
  • 1 evening high school
  • 5 primary schools
  • 2 high schools
  • 4 special schools (international school, waldorf school for example)
  • 3 support schools
  • 19 occupation-forming schools
  • 3 private schools
  • 1 secondary school (Palucca School Dresden)
  • 1 high school (Carl Maria von Weber High School)
  • 1 medical occupation school

63.224 pupils in 3.057 classes.

[edit] Higher education

  • Technische Universität Dresden (University of Technology)
  • Dresden University of Applied Science (5.000)
  • Dresden International University
  • Evangelische Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit Dresden (Vocational university of social work of the Evangelical Church)
  • Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber" (Vocational university of Music)
  • Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Dresden (Vocational university of church music of the Evangelical Church of Saxony)
  • Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden (Vocational university of visual arts)

40.000 students altogether

  • Officer School of the Bundeswehr
  • Akademy of State
  • Economic-Academy Dresden
  • Adult Education Center Dresden r.a.
  • Pensioner Academy of Sciences and Arts
  • Heinrich Schütz Conservatory r.a.

[edit] Culture

[edit] Museums and galleries

[edit] Theaters and cinemas

  • Semperoper
  • Statedrama Dresden
  • State-Operetta Dresden
  • Theater Young Generation/ Doll-Theater
  • Cabarett Theater Breschke and Schuch, Hercules-Cudgel
  • Theater-Barge Dresden
  • Comedy Dresden
  • Societätstheater

12 Cinemas with 43 auditoriums

[edit] Libraries and archives

  • Saxon main-state archive
  • Saxon State Library
  • City-Archive Dresden and Women-Archiv Dresden
  • City-Library (banal)

Clubs (about 300)

[edit] Musical Ensembles

  • Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
  • Philharmonic Dresden
  • Kreuzchor Dresden
  • Kapellknaben Dresden
  • European Center of Arts Dresden r.a.
  • Sing-Academy Dresden r.a.
  • Dresden Chamber-Choir
  • Saxon Vowel-Ensemble r.a.

[edit] Festivals and events

  • Dresden Music-Festival
  • Dresden Days of the Contemparx Music
  • Czech Culture-Days
  • International Dixieland
  • Central German Heinrich Schütz Meets
  • International Dance-Week Dresden
  • Dresden Lyric-Days “Bardinal”
  • Multicultural Days Dresden
  • Yiddish Music and Theater-Week
  • Doll-Theater Festival
  • Dresden City-Festival
  • Elbe-Hillside Festival
  • Pieschen Harbour Festival
  • Movie-Nights Dresden at the Elbe-Bank
  • Art-Fair Dresden
  • Long Night of the Churches
  • Long Nights of the Science
  • Summer-Night of the Museums
  • CYNETart
  • Striezelmarkt (oldest German Christmas-market)
  • Dresden Potter-Market

[edit] Public Green and parks

[edit] Social and medical services

[edit] Child care-facilities

  • 100 Child-day care centers with 8.251 children:
  • 4 day-nurseries for 234 children
  • 96 nursey schools with 8008 children
  • 115 nursey schools under free mainenance with 8512 children:
  • 2 day-nurseries with 103 children
  • 113 nursey schools with 8309 children
  • 6 private nursey schools for 90 crib-children and 100 nursery children
  • 209 child minders look after 784 children

[edit] Hoard care

  • 36 hoards in local maintenance with 5005 children
  • 12 hoards in free maintenance with 1.218 children
  • 26 nursey schools with hoard care in communal mainentance with 2.176 children
  • 18 nursey schools with hoard care in free maintenance with 1198 children

Care for disabled children

  • 77 institutions for 77 disabled children

[edit] Children leisure time facilities

  • Child-clubs (8)
  • Child houses (14)
  • 11 youth-houses
  • 9 youth-clubs
  • 15 student-clubs
  • 6 active play grounds
  • 4 family-centers
  • 2 family-clubs
  • 7 school-social work facilities
  • 7 mobile services

Under it: park railroad, child-tram, youth bio-house, play mobil, youth-library and youth ionformation service

[edit] Hospitals and doctors

  • 8 hospitals with 3.635 beds
  • 2.560 doctors, under it 872 in establishment including 234 general practitioners
  • 548 dentists, under it 476 in establishment with 27 oral surgeons
  • 114 veterinary surgeons, under it 48 surgery doctors offices
  • 112 civil pharmacies

[edit] Sport

[edit] Sports complexes

  • 2 stadiums (Rudolf Harbig Stadion, Heinz-Steyer-Stadion)
  • 44 universal sports complexes
  • 173 sports halls, 2 universal halls
  • 7 outdoor swimming pools, 4 indoor swimming pools, 2 indoor- and outdoor swimming pools
  • 9 open tennis places, 1 tennis hall
  • 17 water sports centers
  • 8 ninepin alleys, 1 bowling alleys
  • 2 hockeyconstructions
  • 1 ice skating circuit, 1 ice sports hall
  • 1 skating circuit, 1 skating circiut stadium
  • 1 fencing hall
  • 1 racecourse
  • 4 equestrianism constructions
  • 1 shooting construction
  • 370 Sportclubs with over 100 arts and 58.500 peoples under it over 18.000 children

[edit] Traffic and transport

[edit] Civil traffic

  • 12 tram lines
  • 28 coach lines
  • 2 mountain railways
  • 3 ferries, 1 car ferry
  • 131 km tram
  • 238 km bus

[edit] Shipping

Between Diesbar and Decin with the oldest wheel-steemer-fleet named White Fleet paddle steamers, Dresden and over 711.000 passengers per year

[edit] Tourism

  • About 8,8 million visitors per year under it
  • 1,35 mio overnight stay-guests with a duration of one’s day with an average of 2,2 days
  • 15% about foreign visitors from mainly England, USA, Switzerland and Nippon.

[edit] Accommodations

  • 157 facilities with 15.353 beds, under it
  • 91 hotels with 13.053 beds
  • 52 inns with 943 beds
  • 8 youth hostels with 978 beds
  • 4 camping places with 206 pitches

[edit] Conventions and congresses

  • 12.900 conventions and congresses with 800.000 participants
  • 47 % economic
  • 21 % medicine

[edit] Sources

Faktum Dresden