:watermark(assets.rndtech.de/lvz/watermark-plus.svg,50,50,0)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/madsack/DCSG6OTOAUW2ZXHCD5RFKSZOXA.jpg "Dresden or Leipzig – the true state capital?")
One city is somehow more lavishly dimensioned, the other prouder and freer. Both have something. “I like working in Dresden. And I miss Leipzig,” says LVZ columnist Carolin Masur.
Leipzig. There has always been a felt and lived rivalry between Leipzig and Dresden. Here the proud free town, there the historically (and courtly correct) residential town. Today: Leipzig, the urban epitome of urbanity – and Dresden the state capital. It is also known from other corners of Germany. In Düsseldorf and Cologne – Alt or Kölsch. Eierschecke with or without raisins. Lawn ball or dynamo.
What is clear: the accessibility of Berlin (not yet the federal capital at the time) in terms of transport cannot have been a decisive factor in the decision in favor of the state capital Dresden. To this day, in the year 32 after reunification, only IC/EC continue to run from Dresden directly to Berlin. From Frankfurt, Munich, Karlsruhe it is only possible to change via Leipzig to Dresden.
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