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Dresden

Dresden's statistics office counted 20,291 empty flats at the end of 2025 — 6.5% of 313,244 — with the highest rate in the Innere Altstadt (281 of 1,807 flats, 15.6%, in the open 2022 table). Saxony's cadastre flags no building as unused, so the radar rests on the city's own property calls: listed villas and former daycare centres to lease or sell, and the courtyard complex on Lößnitzstraße that the city tendered by concept in January 2026, plus two long-empty city-owned theatres.
Vacant office space130,000 m²4.3% of the stock stands empty
Empty buildings on record341and 10 more with an empty shop, flat or floor; of all 351, 17 confirmed, 1 likely
On the map1,618buildings and sites from 9 open sources
Homes potential—not in the economic model’s office data yet

Office figures: BNP Paribas Real Estate, Büromarkt Dresden Q4 2025: vacancy rose over the year to 130,000 m² (4.3%), mainly from new buildings not yet let; the report expects it to rise further in older stock in 2026. Map built 2026-10-09.

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The map

Every building a record says stands empty, one point per building: filter by type, size and how sure the evidence is, and open one to see who says so. “Opportunities” switches to the co-op lens: public land, conversion potential and projects already under way, every source as its own layer.

No open list of empty buildings: flat vacancy is published only as district estimates (latest open table 2022; city page for 2025), not by address, and the city's own list of empty properties is not public.

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Check any building in Dresden: could it become homes, and could the EHC model work there?

Where to look first

Buildings with evidence that they stand empty — a second source agrees, a public record names them, or we have checked them — ranked by a score you can read: co-op scale, daylight depth, a station nearby, a zone that allows homes, affordable land and an open route in. Checked buildings carry their result; nobody has visited them on site yet. Leerstandsmelder reports join the list when they sit in a large non-residential building and a second source agrees.

PriorityBuildingFloor areaDepthStationConversion checkActions
68Former Theater Junge Generation, Meißner Landstraße (Cotta)
Public building named vacant
3,105 m²37.3 m309 mB fit only
66Former daycare buildings, Weinbergstraße 2 (Trachenberge)
Public building named vacant · 3 storeys
1,827 m²15.1 m1,238 mA fit only
58Former Staatsoperette, Leuben
Public building named vacant
5,630 m²—1,317 m—

Homes standing empty

Of 28 Leerstandsmelder reports on the map, 27 sit in a building we can identify — 20 of them homes. Most are single flats or buildings below co-op scale. These are whole buildings of flats that people report empty, ranked by a reactivation score: co-op scale, whether the whole building is empty, how recent the report is, location and land. A building of flats needs no change of use. Reports are public and not checked by us — each card links to its entry on Leerstandsmelder.

ScoreBuildingFloor areaReportedActions
69Alttrachau 52
Apartment building · 3 storeys · Whole building
760 m²Jul 2023
68Hechtstraße 52
Apartment building · 4 storeys · Extent not stated
2,744 m²Jun 2025
63Terscheckstrasse 2
Residential building · 3 storeys · Whole building
1,077 m²Jul 2021
60Hüblerstraße 61
Apartment building · 3 storeys · Whole building
918 m²Dec 2020
58Seitenstraße 17
Apartment building · 4 storeys · Extent not stated · 4 records
2,496 m²Jun 2025
53Uhlandstraße 30
Apartment building · 4 storeys · Extent not stated
1,505 m²Mar 2022
52Antonstrasse 29
Apartment building · 3 storeys · Extent not stated
1,108 m²Jul 2021
46Schanzenstraße 3
Apartment building · 3 storeys · Extent not stated
652 m²Jul 2021
44Antonstrasse 25
Apartment building · 4 storeys · Extent not stated
888 m²Jul 2021

Districts where conversion makes sense

Where empty offices, the right zoning and a working neighbourhood come together — and what could go wrong.

A hand outlining a neighbourhood on a city map, with small houses drawn inside

Innere Altstadt and Albertstadt

The two districts with the highest shares of empty flats in the city's open table (15.6% and 13.0% in 2022); the Innere Altstadt also had the city's highest rate at the end of 2025.

  • Innere Altstadt: 281 of 1,807 flats empty (2022)
  • Albertstadt: 200 of 1,540 flats empty (2022)
  • Citywide: 20,291 of 313,244 flats empty at the end of 2025 (6.5%)

Risk: The table is a statistical estimate by district, building age and type — it gives counts, not addresses, so it cannot be turned into a list of buildings.

2 sources

Neustadt and Trachenberge

Two city-owned sites in the northern quarters: the decayed courtyard complex at Lößnitzstraße 5 (Äußere Neustadt, concept award in January 2026) and the former daycare buildings at Weinbergstraße 2 (Trachenberge), a concept tender in preparation.

  • Lößnitzstraße 5: concept award for culture and creative use, heritable right planned (Jan 2026)
  • Weinbergstraße 2: listed two-building complex, concept tender 'in preparation' (5 Oct 2026)

Risk: The Lößnitzstraße award went to a cultural working group and an earlier housing plan failed on noise rules; Weinbergstraße 2 has no tender date yet.

2 sources

Klotzsche

Two listed villas that housed daycare centres, Darwinstraße 14 and Dörnichtweg 32, are about to be sold by the city.

  • Darwinstraße 14: listed villa with corner pavilion and garden
  • Dörnichtweg 32: listed neoclassical villa with garden house and large garden

Risk: Both are on the sale route (Verkauf), where price counts, in a high-value villa area; the date of the offer has slipped from April 2026.

2 sources

Owners and routes in

Who controls the space, and what a housing cooperative can actually do with them.

A door key on a doorstep with a drawn path leading to an open door
Public owner

Stadt Dresden — Amt für Hochbau und Immobilienverwaltung (city property)

The city sells, grants heritable building rights and runs concept tenders on the Baupilot platform; in a concept tender the price is fixed and the quality of the idea decides. Open on 5 October 2026: a call for tenants for the listed Villa Bautzner Straße 173 (until 30 October 2026), concept tenders at Sachsenplatz (up to 130 flats, with rent- and occupancy-restricted homes required; until 31 March 2027) and at Stadtteilzentrum Leuben (about 10,450 m²; until 30 June 2027); the three former daycare buildings follow.

2 sources
Allocation rule

Concept award on a decayed city property (Lößnitzstraße 5)

The city let a long-empty courtyard complex by concept tender to a working group on a heritable building right. A co-operative can answer the same kind of tender with a housing-led concept, as the Sachsenplatz tender already asks for rent- and occupancy-restricted flats.

2 sources
Public owner

Federal agency BImA — empty federal estates

The BImA's list of 1 January 2023 names ten Dresden properties with empty offices or flats, among them Semperstraße 7, Else-Sander-Straße 8 and the estates at Hechtstraße 52–68 and Große Meißner Straße 4–10; in October 2026 it was letting flats at Löwenstraße 5a and 5d and Große Meißner Straße 4 and 10, so some have since been refurbished.

2 sources
Subsidy

Federal programme 'Gewerbe zu Wohnen'

From July 2026 the federal government pays up to €30,000 a flat for turning heated non-residential buildings into homes (€300 million for 2026). It fits the offices, shops and parish and school buildings the radar lists.

1 source

Signals to watch

Decisions, auctions and closures that change what becomes available, and when.

  1. 2026-10-05
    City lists a lease call and three villas

    The city's property page (changed 5 Oct 2026) invites interest in Villa Bautzner Straße 173 until 30 Oct 2026 and lists Darwinstraße 14, Dörnichtweg 32 and Weinbergstraße 2 as sales and a concept tender in preparation.

    1 source
  2. 2026-09-10
    20,291 empty flats at the end of 2025

    The statistics office puts empty flats at 6.5% of the 313,244 on 31 Dec 2025, the highest rate in the Innere Altstadt.

    1 source
  3. 2026-05-19
    Council asks for a hearing on a vacancy ordinance

    Motion A0181/26 (Die Linke) asks for a hearing on draft V0777/26, the city's ordinance banning the misuse of housing (Zweckentfremdungsverbotssatzung).

    1 source
  4. 2026-01-26
    Lößnitzstraße 5 goes to a working group

    After years of vacancy and a short occupation, the city's concept tender for culture and creative use was won by the group LÖß5, which plans phased refurbishment.

    1 source
  5. 2026-01-22
    City announces its 2026 tenders

    Tenders on the Baupilot platform for plots in Cossebaude, Wilschdorf and Südvorstadt, a lease call for Bautzner Straße 173 and, from April 2026, three former daycare buildings.

    1 source

Sources and freshness

20 sources connected, 1 waiting for access. We only use data we may lawfully reuse; where a publisher blocks automated access we do not work around it — a person downloads it, or we ask for permission.

Show every source, its licence and when we last read it
SourceAccessRecordsStatusLicence
Federal property for sale (BImA)
Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (BImA)
Live sales of federal buildings and land (the open API behind the BImA property search; rentals, garages and parking left out). A disposal is an open route in; it does not say the building stands empty.
Open API0Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated — public sale offers, credited to the BImA
Forced auctions of commercial property (zvg-portal)
Justizportal des Bundes und der Länder
Non-residential objects only; shown until the hearing date. Hamburg courts do not publish here.
Open API0Live
2026-10-09
Official public notice (§ 39 ZVG)
OpenStreetMap disused/abandoned tags and brownfields
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open API415Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Rail, S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations (OpenStreetMap)
OpenStreetMap contributors
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Building heights: GlobalBuildingAtlas (TU Munich)
Zhu, X. X., Chen, S., Zhang, F., Shi, Y., Wang, Y. (2025), Technical University of Munich
GlobalBuildingAtlas: an open global and complete dataset of building polygons, heights and LoD1 3D models. Earth System Science Data 17(12), 6647–6668, doi:10.5194/essd-17-6647-2025. Read from the Parquet copy on Source Cooperative. Satellite-derived heights (typically 1.5–3 m error in Europe), turned into storeys with storey heights fitted on Berlin; used only where no register or official 3D model sizes the building.
Open download612 buildings sizedLive
2026-10-09
CC BY-NC 4.0 (heights); footprints from OpenStreetMap and Microsoft: ODbL
Road noise (EU Environmental Noise Directive, Lden)
European Environment Agency
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
EEA standard re-use policy (attribution)
Leerstandsmelder.de — public reports of empty buildings
Leerstandsmelder (Gängeviertel e.V., Hamburg)
Shown while we ask Leerstandsmelder for permission. Reports since 2016 only, with the address, the month reported and a link to each entry; not checked by EHC. Each point says when a report has since been marked demolished, lived in, in interim use or rebuilt on Leerstandsmelder, and the owner type the reporter gave (private owners are never named).
Asking for permission28Live
2026-10-09
Credited to Leerstandsmelder.de; asking for permission
Open-ended property funds: buildings they report partly empty
Open-ended real-estate funds (each point names its fund and report)
German and Austrian open-ended public property funds must list every property with its vacancy (or letting) rate in their annual and half-year reports. scripts/reuse/import-fund-reports.ts reads those lists; properties at 10 % vacancy or more are shown, those at 25 % or more count as evidence.
Open download0Live
2026-10-09
Published fund report (KAGB / KARBV property list), cited per point
Co-working spaces, department stores, banks, hotels and cinemas listed as permanently closed
Overture Maps Foundation (closure data: BrightQuery company records)
Places with operating_status "permanently_closed" in the monthly Overture release, read by scripts/reuse/import-overture-closures.ts and matched to the building they sit in. A closed business is usually one unit; names are shown only for companies, never for sole traders.
Open download0Live
2026-10-09
CDLA Permissive 2.0 (Overture Maps Foundation)
Land without current use and stalled construction, mapped from satellite imagery (Copernicus Urban Atlas 2006–2018)
European Environment Agency — Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
Urban Atlas class 13400 (brownfields, demolition sites and gaps in the built-up area, 0.25 ha and up) compared across the 2006, 2012 and 2018 editions, so each plot says how long it has stood unused; plus construction sites (13300) already under way in 2012, and 2012 construction sites left unused by 2018. Read from the EEA's open ArcGIS services, the same way in every radar city. The 2021 edition (Copernicus Data Space) drops plots built on since 2018 where scripts/reuse/import-urban-atlas-2021.ts has been run. Points are context, never evidence of vacancy.
Open API122Live
2026-10-09
Copernicus open data (© European Union, Copernicus Land Monitoring Service 2006–2021, EEA)
Property companies in insolvency, at the property their purpose names
Insolvency courts (Insolvenzbekanntmachungen), structured by OpenRegister
Companies in preliminary or opened insolvency proceedings whose registered business purpose speaks of land or buildings (scripts/reuse/import-insolvencies.ts, OpenRegister API — the portal itself disallows automated access, so it is never fetched). A company is placed at the street its purpose names; the rest are leads in the admin. An insolvent owner signals a possible sale, not vacancy: weak evidence.
Open API0Live
2026-10-09
Official notices (§ 5 UrhG, source credited), via the OpenRegister API
Stalled construction and buildings held by insolvent developers
EHC research (dated press and court sources per point)
Signa, Adler/Consus and other developer insolvencies since 2022 and stalled sites, each with its latest dated status (src/scripts/data/reuse/stalled-projects.json; news leads from scripts/reuse/mine-news.ts are reviewed before they join).
EHC research0Live
2026-10-09
Cited publisher per point
Church buildings the dioceses and regional churches plan to give up
Catholic dioceses and Protestant regional churches (their building plans), via EHC research
Buildings a church body’s published building plan or recent reporting names as to be given up, without church funding, for sale or lease, or profaned (src/scripts/data/reuse/church-plans.json and brussels-churches.json).
EHC research0Live
2026-10-09
Cited publisher per point
Named buildings and sites from EHC research (each with its own source)
European Housing Coop research
EHC research8Live
2026-10-09
Facts cited to their publishers
Commercial listings (ImmoScout24 / immowelt)
Scout24 / AVIV
Blocked to automated access; we do not work around that. Request drafted in docs/reuse-radar/outreach/.
Asking for permission0PendingProprietary — API or data partnership requested
Year built and listing: OpenStreetMap building tags
OpenStreetMap contributors
start_date / construction_date and heritage / listed_status of the OpenStreetMap outline a record is matched to, where no register answers. Read with the outline match, not a separate query.
Open APIscoringLive
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0 (© OpenStreetMap contributors)
Public-purpose and administration buildings in the cadastre (ALKIS)
Landesamt für Geobasisinformation Sachsen (GeoSN) — ALKIS NAS for Dresden, read by scripts/reuse/import-dresden-alkis.ts
Open download138Live
2026-10-09
dl-de/by-2-0 (© GeoSN)
Federal properties with empty offices or flats (BImA list, 1 Jan 2023)
Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben (BImA) — lists released under the Freedom of Information Act via FragDenStaat (request #269761); read by scripts/reuse/import-bima-vacancy-2023.ts
Freedom of information10Live
2026-10-09
No licence stated — official lists released under the IFG and published by FragDenStaat; used with credit to the BImA and FragDenStaat
Office buildings mapped in OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr)
Open API791Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0
Brownfield land mapped in OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap contributors (via overpass.openstreetmap.fr)
Open API102Live
2026-10-09
ODbL 1.0
Buildings the City of Dresden offers for sale or lease
Landeshauptstadt Dresden — Immobilienangebote
Open download4Live
2026-10-09
not stated — credited to the publisher

What this radar cannot see yet

  • No open list of empty buildings: flat vacancy is published only as district estimates (latest open table 2022; city page for 2025), not by address, and the city's own list of empty properties is not public.
  • Saxony's cadastre records neither an 'unused' condition nor storeys (the condition field is empty on all 143,079 Dresden buildings), so the radar's building layer is public-purpose and administration buildings only.
  • Council papers: the city's OParl interface (oparl.dresden.de, dl-de/zero-2-0) is live but serves ten papers a page without search; reading the titles of 2,050 papers back to March 2025 found 26 on sales, heritable rights and the vacancy ordinance, and led to the two long-empty city buildings now on the map (the former theatre in Cotta and the former Staatsoperette in Leuben).
  • The state property agency's sale portal (immobilien.sachsen.de) is a search form with no open interface; the city's 20,775 owned plots are an open layer (kommisdd.dresden.de, NodeId 1616) but carry no building data.
  • Floor area: Saxony's cadastre has no storeys; GeoSN's LoD2 model or the Global Building Atlas must supply heights.

Know an empty building we have missed?

Open data cannot see everything. Tell us about a building in Dresden that stands empty or barely used; once we have checked it, it joins the map under “Reported by visitors (checked)”.

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Radars nearby

The other radars in the same country and the nearest beyond. All 134 cities in the atlas

The figure on each card: empty buildings on record.

Berlin, Germany1,875empty buildings on recordBielefeld, Germany101empty buildings on recordBochum, Germany155empty buildings on recordBonn, Germany141empty buildings on recordBremen, Germany205empty buildings on recordCologne, Germany374empty buildings on recordDortmund, Germany304empty buildings on recordDuisburg, Germany141empty buildings on recordDüsseldorf, Germany46empty buildings on recordEssen, Germany224empty buildings on recordFrankfurt am Main, Germany208empty buildings on recordHamburg, Germany524empty buildings on recordHannover, Germany197empty buildings on recordLeipzig, Germany342empty buildings on recordMannheim, Germany82empty buildings on recordMunich, Germany316empty buildings on recordNuremberg, Germany109empty buildings on recordPoznań, Poland307empty buildings on recordPrague, Czechia1,058empty buildings on recordStuttgart, Germany175empty buildings on recordSzczecin, Poland353empty buildings on recordWrocław, Poland676empty buildings on recordWuppertal, Germany224empty buildings on record