Film and TV locations in Saxony

Flughafen Leipzig/Halle

Saxony

Transport & infrastructure

An intercontinental airport between Leipzig and Halle, expanded around 2000 with a central terminal combining a railway station, multi storey car park and passenger check-in in one complex.

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Frauenkirche Dresden

Saxony

Church & monastery

A baroque domed church rebuilt after wartime destruction, on Dresden's Neumarkt square, with a large sandstone dome and an ornate galleried interior.

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Frohnauer Hammer

Saxony

Industrial & derelict

A fully working historic hammer forge in the Frohnau district of Annaberg-Buchholz, part of the Ore Mountains mining heritage recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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Görlitz Old Town

Saxony

Historic town & street

War-spared old town of around 4,000 listed buildings ranging from Gothic and Renaissance to Baroque and Wilhelminian styles.

Seen in: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Inglourious Basterds, The Reader

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Hauptbahnhof Leipzig

Saxony

Transport & infrastructure

Leipzig's main station, with a nearly 300 metre long concourse building and a six-vault steel platform hall, built with a strong symmetrical layout on both sides of the tracks.

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Hellerau

Saxony

House & apartment

Early twentieth-century garden city on the edge of Dresden built around the Hellerau Festival Theatre, with modernist workshop housing and a rhythmic-gymnastics hall used for performance and film.

Capacity: 400 · On-site Lago-Bar for catering; qualified in-house technical staff manage events due to the stage setup and specialised equipment (own site).

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Panometer Leipzig

Saxony

Industrial & derelict

Former gasometer in Leipzig converted into a 360-degree panorama exhibition space, with a cylindrical brick interior more than thirty metres high.

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Stadtbad Chemnitz

Saxony

Theatre, arena & venue

A Neue Sachlichkeit swimming hall completed in 1935, the largest and most modern in Europe at the time, with a clear and functional layout of interlocking pool spaces inside and out.

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World Trade Center Dresden

Saxony

Office, school & public building

An office complex in Dresden that is part of the worldwide World Trade Center network, with flexibly divided office units available for rent by the day.

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Alte Schokoladenfabrik Oderwitz

Saxony

Industrial & derelict

A fully vacant former chocolate factory site in Oderwitz near Goerlitz, with an administration building with a period staircase alongside disused production and storage halls.

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Deutsche Buecherei)

Saxony

Office, school & public building

The Leipzig home of Germany's national library, founded in 1912 and holding around 20 million items, in a purpose-built early 20th century building on Deutscher Platz.

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Fleischerei Buechner Goerlitz

Saxony

Bar, restaurant & shop

A butcher's shop in Goerlitz opened in 1911, with an original sales room of about 30 square metres lined in colourful period wall tiles depicting meat and sausage production.

Sales room of about 30 sqm with original 1911 wall tiling

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Flughafen Dresden International

Saxony

Transport & infrastructure

Dresden's airport, with a terminal built in 2001 in a glazed contemporary industrial style and Saxony's first underground S-Bahn station in its lower level.

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Gedenkstaette Hoheneck

Saxony

Hospital, prison & institution

A listed former prison complex in Stollberg with a main tract and three wings; cells occupied the south and west wings over four floors, and the north wing held workshop production lines.

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Glaeserne Manufaktur (Volkswagen)

Saxony

Industrial & derelict

Volkswagen's Transparent Factory in central Dresden, opened in 2001, where car assembly takes place behind glass walls visible to visitors alongside a showroom.

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Gymnasium St. Augustin zu Grimma

Saxony

Office, school & public building

A grammar school in Grimma founded in 1450, housed since the 19th century in the former Augustinian monastery buildings, with its current facade dating from a full 1891 rebuild.

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Krystallpalast Variete Leipzig

Saxony

Theatre, arena & venue

A variety theatre in Leipzig reviving the name of a celebrated venue destroyed in 1943, rebuilt in the 1990s behind a preserved historic facade in the Magazingasse.

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Media City Atelier Leipzig

Saxony

Studio & backlot

Five studios from about 50 to 1,500 square metres, including a greenscreen stage and a daylight glass hall, at Media City Atelier on a former slaughterhouse site in Leipzig.

Seen in: In aller Freundschaft

Studio 3 combines a 420 m2 event area with the 384 m2 standing Riverboat set at 8 m height, in a hall with a gross area of 1,575 m2, a floor rated 20...

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Museum Kalkwerk Lengefeld

Saxony

Industrial & derelict

A 19th and 20th century lime works near Lengefeld in the Ore Mountains, preserved as a technical monument with its kilns, a transport bridge system and quarrying equipment intact.

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Oberlandesgericht Dresden (Staendehaus)

Saxony

Hospital, prison & institution

Dresden's higher regional court, housed in the former Staendehaus built 1901-06 by Paul Wallot, standing between the Bruehlsche Terrasse and the Schlossplatz in the old town.

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Porsche Leipzig

Saxony

Industrial & derelict

Porsche's Leipzig production site, combining a working car factory with a 32 metre diamond-shaped Experience Centre building set in landscaped grounds.

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Pressnitztalbahn (Museumsbahn Steinbach-Joehstadt)

Saxony

Transport & infrastructure

A narrow gauge heritage railway opened in 1892 running about eight kilometres between Steinbach and Joehstadt in the Erzgebirge, with restored locomotives and carriages from the 1960s to 1980s.

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Spinnerei Leipzig

Saxony

Industrial & derelict

Former cotton mill in Leipzig's Plagwitz district, once continental Europe's largest, now a complex of galleries, artist studios and industrial halls around cobbled courtyards.

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Truppenuebungsplatz Oberlausitz

Saxony

Hospital, prison & institution

Saxony's only active military training ground, set in the Muskau Heath, the largest inland dune landscape in eastern Germany, with flat plains and steep enclosed dune terrain.

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Verlagsgebaeude der Leipziger Volkszeitung

Saxony

Office, school & public building

The central Leipzig headquarters of the city's largest daily newspaper, a historic industrial building converted into a modern office block with editorial rooms and meeting spaces.

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Weingut Klaus Zimmerling

Saxony

Village & countryside

A working winery on the steep, pyramid-shaped Roesselberg slope of the historic Pillnitz royal vineyard near Dresden, producing about 10,000 litres of wine a year under organic methods.

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