Buehlau, Dresden 1.37

Buehlau is a quarter in the east of the Saxon capital Dresden and belongs to the statistical quarter Buehlau/Weisser Hirsch. It lies in the outside of the Elbe valley between the Dresden Heath and the Schoenfeld Upland. It was first mentioned in 1349, in 1839 it formed a country commune together with Quohren and in 1921 it became incorporated into Dresden. Today, Buehlau is part of one of the Dresden villa quarters.GeographyBuehlau is located seven kilometres to the east of Dresden's city centre, the Inner Old Town (Innere Altstadt). It lies an average altitude of about 240 metres above sea level, although the terrain is very bumpy. The lowest point of Buehlau is located at the Loschwitzgrund (lit. Loschwitz Ground) at abundant 200 metres above sea level. In the southeast of the municipal area, the land rises to more than 300 metres above sea level at the Schoenfeld Upland. In the north, Buehlau matches up to the edge of the Dresden Heath, where the Buehlau wood gardens (Bühlauer Waldgärten) are. In the west it is bordered along the Nachtfluegelweg (lit. Night Wings Way) to the Weisser Hirsch (lit. White Deer) and amounting to Neugersdorfer Strasse (lit. Neugersdorf Street) to Oberloschwitz. In the southwest it borders to Rochwitz. South of the municipal area lies Goennsdorf (Gönnsdorf); which is part of the district Schoenfeld-Weissig (Schönfeld-Weißig); in the east of Buehlau it borders at Weissig (Weißig). Together with the Weisser Hirsch, Rochwitz, and parts of Loschwitz, Bühlau forms the statistical district Buehlau/Weisser Hirsch, which belongs to the borough of Loschwitz.