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 have been born ... 12 hereditarily diseased." (sic) According to the current director Klaus Vogel, "The Hygiene Museum was not a criminal institute in the sense that people were killed here," but "it helped to shape the idea of which lives were worthy and which were worthless." Although Dresden is often said to be a Baroque city, its architecture is influenced by more than one style. Other eras of importance are the Renaissance and Historism as well as the contemporary styles of Modernism and Postmodernism. The royal buildings are among the most impressive buildings in Dresden. Dresden Castle was once