has anyone ever been to Saxony,Germany?

Question

if you have could you tell me what its like there
note:serios answers only please

Answer 1

First, please don't care about Etobicoke's answer.
Its the second question he answered and said only bad things about the former GDR and Saxony. There are also some places, you can't call "tourist place" in the West. Its not an argument to say "Don't visit Saxony!" cuz' it was in the GDR.

Its not true, that the other Germans don't like the Saxon people, we are Germans, too!! If they don't want to hear our dialect, they should stay at home.

Well, Leipzig and Dresden are pretty nice places. I'm living in Leipzig and recommend this city very much. You will find many sights, and a great landscape. I will post two links in the sources, where you can find pictures of Leipzig and the "Sächsische Schweiz" (the mountains arround Dresden and Czechs Border).

There are not many differences between East and West now, so if you like cities like Hamburg, Berlin, Colonge, you will also like Leipzig, Dresden and many other cities here, in the new German states (East part).

Every visitor is welcome here! Feel the friendlyness of the people here and enjoy your visit!

Answer 2

Hi there from Düsseldorf, Germany

I am from the north-western part of Germany, but know Saxony pretty well. It's in the east, the former German Democratic Republic (communist part) and it's not what you can call a toursit place.

Germans did not like the Saxons very much, and not only because their strange accent. When East Germany was communist, the most bullheaded politicians came from Saxony to Berlin and pressured the people. Nowadays things have changed (16 years ago already) and the youth is not much different, but people from the 30s on are kind of strange and do not like us people from the west.

When the wall fell down, a heck lot of money from the communist gouvernment "disappeared", and it's an open secret that most of it you find in Saxony. So people there have not changed at all. (Though you always will find exceptions). The cities like Dresden and Leipzig are nice places to be, lot's of historical monuments to see there, but the rest of Saxony is not what you would call worth to visit. The unemployment rate in Saxony is nearly 30% by the way.

If you go to Germany and if you not only want to go to tourist places like Munich, Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg (which are very nice cities by the way), visit the blackwood forest, very nice people there, very clean places. See the french and the swiss border there, called "Dreiländereck". Or go north-west, cities like Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Münster. Or go up north and see the border to Denmark and extremely nice places like in Kiel or Flensburg.

Okay, that's it :-) Greetings

Answer 3

Dresden is the place to see. The cathedral was destroyed in WW2, left in ruins by the Communists, and just reopened last year for Reformation Day (Oct 31). The Zwinger and other historic buildings on the Elbe River are marvelous. Dresden is the center of German culture, and a must see for lovers of art, architecture, music.

The countryside outside Dresden is nice, especially as you travel south toward the mountains on the Czech border. There's a small town there called Seifen where nutcrackers and other wooden toys are made. You can go into the factories and see them assembled - it's a nice day trip from Dresden.

Parts of Saxony have high unemployment and old Soviet-era cinderblock housing. Only go to those areas if you want to see what that era was like.

If you go to Dresden between Thanksgiving and Christmas, you can see the oldest Christmas market in the world - dating back to before Columbus!

Dresden's train station is convenient to downtown if you decide to take the short trip to Meissen, where fine china is made.