Culture in Dresden Culture in Dresden Dresden is a cultural centre in Germany which has influenced the development of European culture. "It is [...] outstanding as a cultural landscape, an ensemble that integrates the celebrated Baroque setting and suburban garden city into an artistic whole within the river valley, and as an example of land use, representing an exceptional development of a major Central-European city." Dresden is today reestabishing the cultural importance it held from the 19th century up until the 1920s when it was a centre of both fine and visual arts, architecture and music. During that period, famous artists such as
Dresden into urban planning. Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf was member of the Leibniz Community until the end of 2010. Dresden has more than 20 Gymnasien which prepare for a tertiary education, five of which are private. The "Sächsisches Landesgymnasium für Musik" with a focus on music is supported, as its name implies by the State of Saxony, rather than by the city. There are some "Berufliche Gymnasien" which combine vocational education and secondary education and a "Abendgymnasium" which prepares higher education of adults avocational. Dresden Dresden (; Upper and Lower Sorbian: "Drježdźany"; ; ) is the capital city and, after Leipzig, the second-largest