Statistics of Dresden

Statistics, facts and figures of Dresden, Germany.Infobox Town DE
name = Dresden
name_local =
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image_coa = Dresden Stadtwappen.svg


state = Saxony
regbzk = Dresden
district = urban district
population = 487.199
pop_dens = 1,523
unemployment_rate = 15.2% "(Mai 2006)"
area = 328.30
elevation = 113
lat_deg = 51| lat_min = 02
lat_hem = N
lon_deg = 13
lon_min = 44
lon_hem = E
postal_code = 01001 to 01462
area_code = 0351
licence = DD
UN/LOCODE = DE DRS
mayor = Lutz Vogel (stand-in for Ingolf Roßberg)
website = [http://www.dresden.de/ dresden.de]

Geography

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

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

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)

Population

Dresden is Germany’s 15th largest city.

Dresden has a population density of 1484 per km².

Confession

*Lutheran-Protestant 75.739 (15,5 %)
*Roman-Catholic 20.460 (4,2%)

Census

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

Economy and administration

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%)

Administrations, courts and public services

*Sit from government and government-presidency
*Sit from department and country-court as well as waiter-regional-court, industrial tribunal, *social-court and administrative court
*Regional-headquarters of banks, insurances and associations
*Congress and convention places, international congress center
*Fair Dresden in the Ostragehege with 4 halls and approbatory 20.000 m² show-terrains

Town twinning

* Columbus, Ohio, USA, since 1992
* Salzburg, Austria, since 1991
* Strasbourg, France, since 1990
* Rotterdam, Netherlands, since 1988
* Hamburg, Germany, since 1987
* Florence, Italy, since 1978
* Brazzaville, Congo, since 1975
* Ostrava, Czech Republic, since 1971
* Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, since 1967
* Wrocław, Poland, since 1963
* Saint Petersburg, Russia, since 1961
* Coventry, England, since 1959

Technology, science and education

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

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.

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.

Culture

Museums and galleries

*Dresden State Art Collections
**Old Masters Picture Gallery
**Green Vault
**Porcelain-Collection
**Copperplate-Cabinet
*Trafficmuseum Dresden
*German Hygiene-Museum Dresden
*Art-Collection Dresden
*Technical Collection Dresden

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
*Societätstheater12 Cinemas with 43 auditoriums

Libraries and archives

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

Clubs (about 300)

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.

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

Public Green and parks

*Großer Garten (meaning "big" garden; 147 ha)
*Zoo Dresden (12 ha)
*Botanic Garden (3,3 ha)
*Cage (6,5 ha)
*Palace Garden Pillnitz (28 ha)
*Small grounds (376 times; 782 ha)
*Wine-growing-area (24)
*Trees in the city-center (47.031 [77.031 in 1944] )
*Playgrounds (950)
*Fountains (300)

Social and medical services

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

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

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

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

Sport

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

Traffic and transport

Civil traffic

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

Shipping

Between Diesbar and Decin with the oldest wheel-steemer-fleet named White Fleet paddle steamers, Dresden and over711.000 passengers per year

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.

*2,95 mio overnight stay
*40% business trips
*60 % private trips

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

Conventions and congresses

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

Sources

Faktum Dresden