Dresden, Perry County, Missouri Dresden, Perry County, Missouri Dresden is an abandoned village in Brazeau Township in Perry County, Missouri. Dresden was named after Dresden in Saxony, Germany, the city where Pastor Martin Stephan's church was located and where his movement had originated. Dresden was a short-lived town near Altenburg, Missouri, one of the seven colonies established in 1839 in the Saxon Migration. Pastor Carl Frederick Wilhelm Walter ministered to the village of Dresden. A log-cabin Lutheran seminary “college” was founded 1839 at Dresden by J. F. Bürger, T. Brohm, O. Fuerbringer, and C. F. W. Walther; classes, however, soon moved to Altenburg. Most
Culture in Dresden are: Dresden hosts the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in the former garrison in the Albertstadt. The book museum of the Saxon State Library presents the famous Dresden Codex. The former convention house of the Farmer's Estate (called the Landhaus) is now the home of the Dresden City Museum, which exhibits a collection of historical objects and has a smaller collection of paintings. The city has some museums specialising in artists who lived in the city (for example the and the . Another museum, the "Technische Sammlungen" (Technical Collection) was established in the Pentacon building, the old factory where "Praktika" cameras