Entertaining stories, descriptions, and accounts of Dresden and its surroundings, starting from the Stone Age, Dresden around 1400, the plague in Dresden, a market day in the Middle Ages, Luther in Dresden, Dresden's baked goods, a court festival in Moritzburg, from Theodor Körner's childhood, hikes to the Golden Heights, the Wilsdruffer suburb, towards the Neumarkt, the Catholic Hofkirche, the water supply of Dresden, observations along the Elbe River, and much more. Reprint of the original edition from 1909.