Transportation in Dresden Transportation in Dresden Dresden is major German city and capital of Saxony. It is a road, train and air transport hub in eastern Germany. Local and commuter transport services grant accessibility in the Dresden agglomeration. The city has a dense network of tram and bus lines. Dresden has two major train stations, an international airport and an inner harbour on the Elbe river waterway. Autobahns grant access to all cardinal directions. Dresden is the junction of two class-A European routes. Dresden is also an international centre of traffic and transport science. The Bundesautobahn 4 (European route E40) crosses Dresden in
Culture in Dresden of their activities and influence. Friedrich Schiller published his Ode to Joy in Dresden which he began in Gohlis near Leipzig in 1785. E. T. A. Hoffmann's novella "The Golden Pot. A Modern Fairytale" is set in Dresden and was published in 1814. "The Golden Pot" has parts of realistic descriptions of Dresden and fades into a surreal world of myths. Hoffmann witnessed the Battle of Dresden in 1813. Erich Kästner grow up in Dresden. He worked off his youth in Dresden ("The Flying Classroom") and his military training in an artillery battalion in the Dresden Albertstadt garrison (poem "Sergeant