DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Freistaat Sachsen	Saxony
Landkreis: Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge

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The town Freital is situated at an elevation of 160 m on the river Weißeritz just south of Dresden. The municipality was formed only in 1921 when the villages of Deuben, Döhlen and Potschappel were merged. During the following years several other villages also were included in the municipality of Freital; the last community which joined Freital in 1999 was Pesterwitz. Pesterwitz is also the oldest part of Freital as it was already mentioned in a document in 1068; Döhlen and Potschappel were first mentioned in 1206, while the first mention of Deuben dates from 1360. From 1542 onward, coal mining became important for the development of the area. The industrial development started in the 19th century.

The pictures on glass no. 704 [left] and no. 4552 [right] show views of the village Deuben:

The Christuskirche (Church of Christ) in Deuben [left, no. 704: top centre] was built 1868–1869 and was the forst church in Neogothic style in the Dresden area. The architect was August Pieper (1844–1891) who had arrived from Vienna only in 1867.

The former Town Hall of Deuben [left, no. 704: botom left, and right, no. :4552: bottom right] was built in 1888 by the architect Moritz Käppler. After a recent renovation the building is now part of the administration of the town of Freital.

The railway station of Deuben [left, no. 704: bottom right] was built for the railway line 'Albertbahn' which was founded in 1853 and opened in 1855. The line connected Dresden (station Dresden-Altstadt) with Potschappel, Deuben, Hainsberg and Tharandt. The railway company was owned by the owners of the coal mines in the area south of Dresden, one of the three pit-coal regions of Saxony. The line was the first mountain railway line in Germany and the second in Europe after the railway line across the Semmering in Austria which was constructed 1848–1854. The Albertbahn was nationalised in 1868 and became part of the 'Königlich Sächsische Staatseisenbahn' (Royal Saxon State Railway). Since 1921 the name of the station is Freital-Deuben.

The bottom left picture on glass no. 4552 [right] is labeled Neue Schule ('new school'). The main building opened in 1906/1907 as a primary school. During the period of the German Democratic Republic it was a Erweiterte Oberschule ('extended high school'). Together with two other school buildings it was renamed in 1992 Kreisgymnasium Freital-Deuben ('district school'). In 2003 it merged with the former Manfred-von-Ardenne-Gymnasium in Freital-Zauckerode. In 2007 the school was renamed Weißeritzgymnasium.

The picture on glass no. 3125 is labeled Andenken an Potschappel / Tharandter Straße, Gold. Löwe.

The restaurant zum Goldenen Löwen is located where Turnerstraße meets the main street of Potschappel, Dresdner Straße (Turnerplatz). The name Tharandter Straße today is only used for the prolongation of Dresdner Straße from the city limit of Dresden to the centre of Dresden's borrough Löbtau. Already in the 17th century, an inn bearing the same name was located at this site. Construction of the new hotel began in 1908, just north of the old inn, and the latter was torn down in 1909. The new hotel's ballroom then was erected on the site of the old inn. The establishment closed after the reunification of Germany in 1989/90 due to economic difficulties. After the severe floodings caused in 2002 by the river Vereinigte Weißeritz, the ballroom had to be demolished. Following a renovation in 1909–1911 the restaurant is operating again under the same name.

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasthof_zum_Goldenen_Löwen_(Freital), https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tharandter_Straße; https://weisseritzgymnasium.de/rahmenbedingungen/]