Yenidze

Dresden, Germany

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The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Yenidze is a former cigarette factory in Dresden, Germany, built between 1907 and 1909 by architect Martin Heinrich Hammitzsch. Designed for tobacco entrepreneur Hugo Zietz's company, which imported leaves from Ottoman Yenidze in Thrace, the building's striking Moorish Revival exterior—featuring a 20-metre-high dome with colored chimney minarets, 600 windows of varied styles, and lavish tilework in complex patterns and three-dimensional forms—served as both architecture and advertisement, evoking the exotic origins of the Oriental tobaccos processed within. Nicknamed the "tobacco mosque," it remarkably survived the devastating carpet bombing of Dresden in February 1945 with only minor damage to its colored dome glass. After decades of isolation, the building was restored in 1996 and now functions as an office space, standing as a unique historical landmark amid the city's postwar reconstruction.