Shopping in Dresden
Culture and art are not the only attractions of the town. Dresden offers many shopping facilities. Just a small choice of it will be mentioned in the following.
Shopping in the Neustadt
The Königstraße in the Baroque Quarter, just a stone’s throw away from our gest apartments, is a shopping area with baroque ambience worth seeing and experiencing. The parallel running Hauptstraße offers as it did 200 years ago best facilities to spend lots of cents and euros in clothing and other things, while strolling under the shady sycamores. Just around the corner you can find second-hand shops in the Äußere Neustadt (Outer New Town), where a more alternative scene is domestic. In search of something special you will be definitely successful here. An absolute must is the Kunsthofpassage (Art Courtyard Passage), which can be reached by gateways in Alaunstraße No. 70 or by Görlitzer Straße No. 20-25. Here you will find a labyrinth consisting of passages and small courtyards with personalized shops. Caution: A “stop-by” frequently gets a whole day here.
Shopping in the Altstadt (Old Town)
Prager Staße is a popular meeting place for people who like to spend their money. Along the street, shaded by rows of trees, there are some large stores and exquisitely equipped boutiques. There are many shopping facilities also around the Altmarkt (Old Market), like for instance the Altmarkt-Galerie with its 26,000 square metre of shopping experience at four levels. The Wilsdruffer Straße, coming from the Altmarkt, offers an attractive mixture of shops, restaurants, and cafés. The very thing for a cultural break!
Weekly Market in the New Town (Neustadt)
Dresden Farmers' Market
Just around the corner of the guest apartments in the Baroque District you can find the Dresden farmers' market. Here people from Neustadt buy their fresh fruit and vegetables, cheese, sausage, cakes, new bread from the stone oven and other delicacies from local production for feasting at the weekend.
Königstrasse, Rebeccabrunnen in front of the Dreikönigskirche
01097 Dresden
Opening Hours:
every Saturday
April - October 08:00 h - 13:00 h
November - March 09:00 h - 13:00 h
Weekly Market on Alauenplatz
When strolling around the New Town (Neustadt) one mostly comes across Alaunpark. Two days a week a market offering many delicacies takes place here. The market invites to have a snack or to purchase local specialities.
Alaunplatz
01099 Dresden
Opening Hours:
Thursday 09:00 h - 17:00 h
Saturday 08:00 h - 12:00 h
Weekly Market at the Martin Luther Square
Shortly before the weekend New Town (Neustadt) people meet here to fill the gaps in the refrigerator.
Martin-Luther-Platz
01099 Dresden
Opening Hours:
Friday 09:00 h - 17:00 h
Flea Markets
Saturday’s market – The Dresden flea market on the bank of the Elbe
For ten years now the flea market on the bank of the river Elbe is every Saturday the weekly market highlight in the town. Idyllically situated right on the Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer (at the meadows on the Old City side) the Elbe flea market is a fascinating meeting place for Dresdeners, Saxons, and tourists from all over the world.
Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer
01307 Dresden
Opening hours: 07:00 h - 16:00 h
Sunday’s market – The Dresden flea market on the bank of the Elbe
There is a flea market at fixed dates on Sundays as well at the same spot like the weekly Saturday’s market, beneath Albertbrücke bridge.
Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer
01307 Dresden
Opening hours: 07:00 h - 16:00 h
Innere Neustadt (Inner New City) - Hauptstaße
Several times in the year the chic promenade under the huge sycamores, the Hauptstaße (High Street), is place of a flea market, too.
Altstadt (Old Town) - Prager Straße
Three times a year dealers from the wider surrounding area of Dresden are offering junk in Prager Straße.
