The bronze plaque is in landscape format and commemorates the Brühl Palace, an important building in Dresden's city centre, which was demolished in 1900 to build the Ständehaus on the same site. Count Heinrich von Brühl had the building constructed for himself, and extended it several times.
He lived here between 1740 and 1756, when he was not staying in one of his other residences in Saxony or Poland. The bronze plaque shows the garden side of the Brühl Palace. The façade facing Brühl’s Terrace had rows of seven windows, and rounded corners. A curved bridge with a two-part staircase connected the palace to the garden on the ramparts, bridging the alley behind the ramparts. This bridge made it possible to step out of the banqueting hall of the Brühl Palace directly into the garden. The arms of the staircase ended where two fountain basins can still be found on Brühl’s Terrace today - the last remnants of Brühl's garden design.
