3D print the Zwinger Palace
A free, printable model of the Zwinger Palace's gallery wings, arcades and domed pavilions around a garden courtyard, with a pond, parks and streets nearby in Dresden, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Zwinger Palace
The Zwinger (German: Dresdner Zwinger) is a palatial ensemble with gardens, in the northwest of the Innere Altstadt in Dresden, Germany. Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann designed it, and it ranks among the most important Baroque buildings in Germany. Together with the Frauenkirche, it is Dresden's most famous architectural monument. The name goes back to a medieval term for the strip of a fortress lying between its outer and inner walls, even though the complex no longer served that purpose when construction began.
The Zwinger was built as an orangery, a garden and a representative festival area, in the time of Augustus the Strong, who was both the Elector of Saxony and the elected King of Poland. Its richly decorated pavilions and its galleries, which are lined with balustrades, figures and vases, show the splendor of that time. In 1719 the complex was formally inaugurated for the wedding of the electoral prince Frederick August and the Archduchess Maria Josepha, and Balthasar Permoser provided the sculpture. The interiors were completed in 1728.
Augustus planned the Zwinger as the forecourt for a new castle, which would have occupied the land between the complex and the Elbe, so it was left undeveloped on the Elbe side and provisionally closed with a wall. The castle plans were abandoned after he died. More than a century later the architect Gottfried Semper completed the complex with the Semper Gallery toward the Elbe, which opened in 1855. Bombing of the city on February 13 and 14, 1945 caused extensive destruction at the Zwinger, and reconstruction followed in the 1950s and 1960s.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 9 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 11 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 14 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Open arcades on slim columns
- The curved galleries are open arcades on slim columns. Printing slowly helps these thin parts, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the arches crisp.
- Domed pavilions and gate pavilion
- Round pavilions carry low domes, and the gate pavilion has a small dome of its own. A larger print size keeps more of the detail, and Print friendly adapts the smallest parts.
- One piece with the ground
- The Zwinger Palace is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Zwinger Palace takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Zwinger Palace is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Zwinger Palace STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Zwinger Palace grows with the print: about 9 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
