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Strehlen, Dresden — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Strehlen is a Stadtteil of Dresden in the Prohlis district, first documented in 1288 as Strowelin, the place of Strowela.
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Where to stay in Strehlen
Where visitors usually base themselves, and why.
The Lockwitzer Straße is the local high street. It runs from the edge of the old village core and forms a district centre with the Wasaplatz, carrying banks, shops and restaurants for the south-east of Dresden. Villas fill the streets around.
Grand houses went up on the Parkstraße and the Wiener Straße from the middle of the nineteenth century, when Strehlen became the address of the well-off. An S-Bahn station serves the quarter.
Things to do in and around Dresden
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Museums & Galleries
1- Altertumsmuseum Dresden
Churches & Religious Sites
2- Christuskirche Strehlen Heritage
- Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage
Castles & Historic Sites
3- Ernst Thälmann Memorial
- Zoo-Direktor Professor Ullrich
- Gründungsstele Zoo Dresden
Stadiums & Sports
1- Sporthalle der PH Dresden
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About Strehlen
What are the main landmarks in Strehlen?
A royal villa once stood by the Rothes Haus. That forester's house and tavern gave way from 1860 to a villa and a station of its own, between the railway embankment, the August-Bebel-Straße and the Franz-Liszt-Straße. The same ground changed hands repeatedly.
The Luftgaukommando Dresden was built there between 1935 and 1938, the Saxon state government sat in it from 1945 to 1952, the Friedrich Engels military academy followed, and the buildings south of the August-Bebel-Straße now go increasingly to the Technical University. A painter worked on the Residenzstraße. Wilhelm Claudius, great-grandnephew of the poet Matthias Claudius, lived at number twenty around the turn of the century, on what is now the August-Bebel-Straße.
What is the history of Strehlen?
Strehlen is named in a document of 1288. The form is Strowelin, the place of Strowela, and in 1307 the Altzella monastery bought most of the village for its farm at Leubnitz, adding half the Strehlen Vorwerk in 1312. The Reformation moved it again.
In 1550 the place passed as property of that monastery farm to the Leubnitz Amt under the feudal overlordship of the Dresden council, after which many citizens of Dresden bought fields and meadows here. The Großer Garten took a bite out of it. Laying out that park in 1676 cost the village about fifty-nine hectares, though the fields of the deserted Frankenberg had come to Strehlen beforehand.
Floods brought it into the city. Dresden took Strehlen in 1892 because the Kaitzbach flooded so often that a flood channel to the Lingnerallee was needed, and the village could only manage that with the city behind it.
Where is Strehlen?
Strehlen lies in the south-east of Dresden in the Stadtbezirk Prohlis, against the inner suburban belt, bordering Zschertnitz, Mockritz, Leubnitz-Neuostra, Reick, Gruna, Seevorstadt and Südvorstadt.
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Updated October 2026