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GERMANY. [Meiffen.
prizes in It eight boroughs, one market-town, forty-feven mother and fix
lilial churches in the country. Near this church ahb ftands a Latin fchcol.
2. St. Mary%, or the church of our Lads. 3. Sophia church. 4. The
garrifon-church ; and 5. The /?owtf«-cathulic chapel near the Elbe-bridge^
which is a curious piece of architedure. In the fuburbs before the Pirna-
^iife lies St. Jokins church, belonging to the Bohemian community ; the
corredlion and orphan-houfes, with a church in them, and the large electoral
garden containing a palace. In the fuburbs before the IVilfdruf-gate
are, the churches of St. y]7ine and St. James, the latter of which ftands
near an hofpital, as alfo that of St. Bartholomew, likewife ftanding near a
hofpital ; the Lazar church, the large poor-houfe, the foundling-houfe,
the great charity-fchool founded by the merchant Ehrlich, the court
kitchen-garden, with the orangery, the Birkenholz garden, the countefs
ot Mcfzinska's garden, behind the Burgerwieje ; the iron, copper, and filver
fcunderies ; the boring-mill, the marble founderies, and the mill for the
polifhing of glafs
mirrors.
The Elbe-bridge, which joins this and the following town, is one of the
mnll celebrated in all Germany, being built of pure fine free-ftone, ftanding
on very large foundation-blocks, and confifting of feventeen piers and
arches. This bridge was on each fide widened by King Aiigiiflm II. by
foot-paflengers.
the ereäion of a commodious pafTage and refting-places for
On it ftands a gilt crucifix placed on an artificial rock, and over-againft
it two ftatues, one of which reprefents the kingdom of Poland, the other,
the electorate of Saxojiy, and between them arc neatly engraved, in ftone,
the royal and eledoral arms.
The Neuftadt, near Drefden, was otherwife called Old-Drejden, as being
older than the foregoing, being indebted for its firft rife to a fort founded
there by Charlemagne in the year 808, though it was firft railed from a borough
to a town in the year 1403. In the market-place here is feen a metal
cqueftrian ftatue gilt, reprefenting Aiigufins II. and which was ereded in
1736. From hence runs a long walk of lime-trees, whkh extends quite
to the black-gate. The Cajern building here is extenfive, and ferves among
other things for the inftrudion and provifion of about a hundred children,
containing in it alfo the anatomical theatre. The hunting-houfe, the
lion-houfe, in which numbers of wild beafts are kept ;
the riding-houfe for
the cadets, the eleftoral college, and in particular, that called the Japanpalace,
with the very rich and valuable ftock of home and foreign porcelaneinitj
as alfo the garden belonging thereto are likewife remarJcable.
In this part is the church of the three wife men, and 2. Latin fchool.
Ths Friderichßadt at Drefden lies near the refidence-town, on the fpot
on which formerly ftaod the village of Oßra. This village the Eledor Äu.-
gußus converted into a farm, and near it the Eledor John George II. in the
year 1670 founded a town, which he named Neiißadt-Oßra^ but King
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Frederick