Zwinger

Zwinger is a park in , , . Zwinger is situated near , as well as near the museum .
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
  • Type: Park
  • Description: palace in Dresden, eastern Germany
  • Also known as: “Der Zwinger”, “Drážďanská galerie”, “Dresden, Zwinger”, “Dresdner Zwinger”, “Palais Zwinger”, “Zwinger Museum”, “Zwingergarten”, “Дворец Цвингер”, “Дрезденска картинна галерия”, and “ツヴィンガー城”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister and Semperoper.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The in , Germany, displays around 750 paintings from the 15th to the 18th centuries. It includes major Italian Renaissance works as well as Dutch and Flemish paintings. is situated 140 metres east of Zwinger.

Theater building
The is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden and the concert hall of the Staatskapelle Dresden. It is also home to the Ballett. is situated 210 metres northeast of Zwinger.

Museum
The in , , is a museum of historic clocks and scientific instruments. Its holdings include terrestrial and celestial globes, astronomical, optical and geodetic devices dating back to the 16th century, as well as historic instruments for calculating and drawing length, mass, temperature and air pressure.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Innere Altstadt and Wilsdruffer Vorstadt.

Suburb
is a suburb.

Suburb
The is a neighborhood in within the administrative district of Neustadt. The name is derived from "Neue Königliche Stadt", the name given to the former district of Altendresden when it was rebuilt after a fire before 1732.

Zwinger

Latitude
51.05356° or 51° 3′ 13″ north
Longitude
13.73257° or 13° 43′ 57″ east
Open location code
9F3M3P3M+C2
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Upper Sorbian—“Zwinger” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تسفينغر”
  • Armenian: “Ցվինգեր”
  • Azerbaijani: “Zvinger”
  • Basque: “Zwinger”
  • Belarusian: “Цвінгер”
  • Bulgarian: “Цвингер”
  • Catalan: “Zwinger”
  • Chinese: “茨温格宫”
  • Chinese: “茨溫格宮”
  • Chinese: “茲溫格宮”
  • Croatian: “Zwinger”
  • Czech: “Zwinger”
  • Dutch: “Zwinger”
  • Esperanto: “Zwinger”
  • Estonian: “Zwinger (Dresden)”
  • Estonian: “Zwinger”
  • Finnish: “Zwinger”
  • French: “Zwinger”
  • Georgian: “ცვინგერის სასახლე”
  • German: “Zwinger”
  • Greek: “Τσβίνγκερ”
  • Hebrew: “צווינגר”
  • Hungarian: “Zwinger”
  • Indonesian: “Zwinger (Dresden)”
  • Indonesian: “Zwinger”
  • Italian: “Zwinger”
  • Japanese: “ツヴィンガー宮殿”
  • Kazakh: “Цвингер”
  • Korean: “츠빙거”
  • Lithuanian: “Cvingeris”
  • Luxembourgish: “Zwinger”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zwinger”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zwinger”
  • Norwegian: “Zwinger”
  • Persian: “تسوینگر”
  • Persian: “زوینگر”
  • Polish: “Zwinger”
  • Portuguese: “Zwinger (Dresden)”
  • Portuguese: “Zwinger”
  • Romanian: “Palatul Zwinger din Dresda”
  • Russian: “Цвингер”
  • Serbian: “Палата Цвингер”
  • Slovak: “Zwinger”
  • Slovenian: “Zwinger”
  • Spanish: “Zwinger”
  • Swedish: “Zwinger”
  • Thai: “ซวิงเงอร์”
  • Ukrainian: “Цвінгер”
  • Ukrainian: “Цвінґер”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Cwinger”

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