PANORAMA PLACES | Das Panometer - Ein ungewöhnliches Museum in Dresden

**Altmarkt mit Kreuzkirche. 1930er-Jahre**
Foto: Sammlung Holger Naumann

**Sophienkirche. 1910**
Foto: Sammlung Holger Naumann

**Neubebauung, links Gedenkort Busmannkapelle (Sophienkirche). 2019**
Foto: Archiv SZ, Eric Münch

**Königsufer. 1910**
Foto: Sammlung Holger Naumann

**Frauenkirche. 1931**
Foto: Sammlung Holger Naumann

**Frauenkirche. Um 2016**
Foto: Adobe Stock, Freesurf

**Pirnaischer Platz mit Blick in die Grunaer Straße. Um 1915**
Foto: Sammlung Holger Naumann

**Grunaer Straße. 2019**
Foto: Ö GRAFIK, sk

**Hygienemuseum. Um 1931**
Foto: Sammlung Holger Naumann

**Hygienemuseum. 2019**
Foto: Thomas Türpe

09 PANORAMA PLACES

Nächste Station

For each of his panoramas, Yadegar Asisi defines one point from which the entire scenery should be viewed. The choice for this panorama is the 100-metre-high tower of the New Town Hall, which survived the attacks unscathed.

From 1945 onwards, numerous photographs were taken from here, making the destroyed Dresden an icon of the cruelty of aerial warfare. Yadegar Asisi captures a moment in the 360-degree panorama that none of these photographs show.

In the foreground of the picture is the Church of the Holy Cross. Including its tower, it seems to be largely intact. However, the church has burnt down – smoke is still rising from the windows and the damaged roof.

Behind the Church of the Holy Cross, the view falls on the Old Market Place. You can see the Victory monument, inaugurated in 1880 and one of the two firewater basins, which were built in 1943. After the end of the war, the monument, which was barely damaged, disappeared and the fire water basins were filled in.

In the background you can see the twin towers of the Saint Sophia’s Church, the ruins of which were demolished in 1962 under heavy protests. The Zwinger, the Residence Palace, the Semper Opera House and the Catholic Court Church.

On the northern horizon you can see the Elbe with the various bridges and on the other side of the Elbe the buildings on the Königsufer. On both sides of the Carola Bridge, the ministerial buildings are in flames.

The Church of Our Lady on the New market Place has completely disappeared from the cityscape. In the centre of the picture, the remains of the church, which has collapsed, are dominant. After 1945, the ruins of the Church of Our Lady became a memorial site.

To the east the view follows the Grunaer Strasse. The building complex of the Hygiene Museum stands out clearly against the dark background of the Great Garden, in which the baroque palace is burning.

Striking splashes of colour in the grey and black of the devastated city are two escaped parrots flying over the ring road. Asisi sees in the parrots how life can be destroyed from one moment to the next.