Attraction · Dresden · Updated on 1 November 2026.

Yenidze in Dresden

Yenidze is an attraction in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. This place has a story in the app. 24 of the 50 well-known points of interest nearby are within 1 km. Within 980 m you'll find a bench, a public toilet, a bike pump and a water point.

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Story · Yenidze

You're standing in front of the Yenidze, and no, you're not looking at a mosque. This is an old cigarette factory. Look up at those towers that resemble minarets. They were simply chimneys. And under that big glass dome, tobacco was once dried. No wonder people called this place the tobacco mosque.

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Yenidze in Dresden: a former cigarette factory

The Yenidze in Dresden is a point of interest that once served as a cigarette factory. The building is known as the tobacco mosque because it looks like a mosque, but its towers were in fact chimneys. Brands such as Salem and Fatima were made here. The owner sourced his tobacco from the town of Yenidze. Tobacco used to be dried under the large glass dome. You will find the Yenidze in Dresden at Weißeritzstraße 3.

What you see at the Yenidze

The building has an oriental style, with colourful tiles, patterns and around 600 windows in different styles. You can see towers that look like minarets and a glass dome 20 metres high. The architect blended elements from a grave monument, mosques and the Alhambra with jugendstil. Inside, you will now find offices and a restaurant with views over the city. Under the dome, fairy tales are read aloud in an oriental atmosphere. When it is dark, the dome is lit from the inside.

The history of the Yenidze

The Yenidze was the idea of entrepreneur Hugo Zietz, who wanted a factory that would stand out and advertise his cigarettes. Architect Martin Heinrich Hammitzsch designed it in an oriental style, drawing inspiration from mosques, the Alhambra and a tomb monument. Not everyone welcomed a building like this next to the baroque old town of Dresden. During the bombing of Dresden in February 1945, the factory survived, although some of the coloured glass in the dome was lost. For decades afterwards it stood alone in an empty area. The Yenidze was fully restored in 1996, and the surrounding neighbourhood was rebuilt too. Today most of the interior is offices, but there is also a restaurant with views over the city, and fairy tales are read aloud under the glass dome in an oriental atmosphere. Visit again after dark, when the dome is lit from within and the whole building seems to come straight out of a fairy tale.

Benches, drinking water and a toilet near Yenidze Dresden

You will find benches close to Yenidze in Dresden. The nearest bench is 46 metres away, on the Magdeburger Straße, and there are 54 benches within 500 metres. For a toilet near Yenidze in Dresden, the walk to the Ostra-Allee is 254 metres. This public toilet is free to use and wheelchair accessible. There is no drinking water in the immediate area of Yenidze in Dresden. The nearest water point is 982 metres away, at the Postplatz. You can fill a bottle there free of charge, and the point is wheelchair accessible. For a bike pump, the nearest is 737 metres away, at Kraftwerk Mitte.

Walks and sights around Yenidze

From Yenidze, you can visit several places nearby. The Semperoper is 772 metres away and offers an audio story. A little further on, the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister is 826 metres away and the Zwinger is 830 metres away; both also have an audio story. At 974 metres, you can walk to the Historisches Grünes Gewölbe museum, where an audio story is also available. The furthest attraction in this area is the Residenzschloss Dresden, 1,007 metres away, which also has an audio story.