A Slavic settlement belonging to the fishing village \u201cDresdene” was first mentioned in 1206.\u00a0 The name probably originated from \u201cDre\u017e\u010fany\u201d, which means wash or floodplain people.<\/p>\n
As from 1485, Dresden evolved to become a seat of the Saxon Dukes, and later Electors and Kings as well, which enhanced its reputation as a political and cultural centre. After the House of Wettin had claimed electoral dignity, Dresden became the capital of the most important protestant country in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.<\/p>\n
In 1685, Dresden was burnt to its foundations. In 1694, the Saxon Elector Frederick Augustus I, also known as Augustus the Strong, succeeded to the Throne. He initiated a period of brisk construction activity, which helped Dresden become a \u201cpearl by the river Elbe\u201d and, because of its public museums, Dresden also became a role model. By promoting architecture and art, its extensive collection of paintings such as the Dresden painting gallery, the green vault (\u201cGr\u00fcnes Gew\u00f6lbe\u201d), the glorious Baroque architecture, Dresden Zwinger, Dresden Frauenkirche or Moritzburg Castle or the construction of the first occidental porcelain factory in Mei\u00dfen in 1710, all contributed to Dresden getting the romantic byname \u201cFlorence on the Elbe\u201d. These huge collections evolved to become the richest and biggest and most extensive in Europe and were continuously expanded on by the kings currently in reign.<\/p>\n
Following the Napoleonic regency, the industrialisation of Dresden began. As a result, Dresden also became a major economic centre. With new industries establishing themselves in Dresden, both the city and its population began to grow. At the beginning of the 20th century, Dresden became a main shipping route for tobacco and the centre of cigarette manufacturing in Germany, with more than 40 cigarette factories producing 60 percent of Germany\u2019s tobacco products. The Yenidze was Germany\u2019s biggest tobacco factory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In 1886, the business man Hugo Zietz founded his oriental tobacco and ciga-rette factory in Dresden, named after the tobacco-growing area centred around a small town called Giannitsa, whose former turkish name is Yenidze.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1155,"parent":2158,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"yenidze-template .php","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yenidze.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yenidze.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yenidze.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yenidze.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yenidze.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.yenidze.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"https:\/\/www.yenidze.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2188\/revisions\/2482"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yenidze.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yenidze.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yenidze.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}