When the "Thirty Years War" was over, the hunger and the plague cleared thoroughly and the extensive use of wood have been done, since the Middle Ages the area over the right side of Alt-Dresden (since 1732: Neustadt) has been called "The Sand" to transform it into a desert . The auditors reported in 1652 quicksand and an unobstructed view of the heaths and windswept roads, where the black gates were to be found in between Königsbrücker and Radebergischer Straße without tree, bush or fields........

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