Curving housing blocks
Long residential buildings follow gentle arcs across the slope, creating repeated parallel bands that turn into a strong graphic rhythm on a black-and-white print.
Minimalist map poster · Germany
51.0455° N / 13.6611° E
A planned district on Dresden's western edge, where long housing blocks curve in loops and terraces across the high ground.

One city, five moods
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On the wall



The map
Gorbitz is a district on the western side of Dresden, best known for the large housing estate built there in the final decade of the GDR. From above it looks nothing like the old city centre by the Elbe. Instead of a medieval street plan, you see long residential blocks laid out in bends and loops, with wide green spaces and service roads between them.
The estate was designed as one project, and the map shows it. Streets curve to follow the terrain, courtyards open between parallel buildings, and a tram line ties the district to the rest of the city. Around the edges, older village cores and patches of garden land show what stood here before the building work began.
A Gorbitz map poster captures a kind of urban form that is rarely framed: late socialist planning, drawn at a scale where its geometry becomes clear. It will appeal to people who grew up in these blocks, to those interested in postwar architecture, and to anyone who likes a map whose pattern looks almost designed on purpose.
Long residential buildings follow gentle arcs across the slope, creating repeated parallel bands that turn into a strong graphic rhythm on a black-and-white print.
Between the blocks lie wide open spaces and paths, so the district reads as lines of building separated by generous gaps rather than a solid mass.
Main roads and the tram route run east towards the city, giving the composition a clear axis and placing Gorbitz within the larger Dresden network.
Make it yours
Add a date, a name or a line of your own, switch style, size or orientation.
The free preview is low-resolution with a watermark. Prints and HD files are rendered at 300 DPI, up to 7,200 × 10,800 px, without a watermark.
Why Gorbitz
For many people Gorbitz was simply home, a first flat or the place where a family started out. A poster of its unusual plan is a personal record and also an honest piece of architectural history for the wall.
Add a title, a subtitle such as a street or a move-in year, and your own coordinates line. Choose from five styles, Blueprint suiting the planned geometry especially well, and download six HD sizes for $9 or order a printed poster.
Order the Gorbitz poster| Print size | Resolution | Files |
|---|---|---|
| 30 × 40 cm11.8 × 15.7″ | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3)11.7 × 16.5″ | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2)16.5 × 23.4″ | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm18 × 24″ | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm19.7 × 27.6″ | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm24 × 36″ | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
For comparison, the free preview is 900 px wide, watermarked and meant for screens. The HD files have up to 8× the resolution in each direction and print cleanly at full poster size.
Pick a style at the top of the page, then choose Printed Poster — a size and, if you like, a frame — or Digital HD Files. Checkout takes one step, and your order page updates as soon as the payment goes through.
It is printed on premium 200 gsm matte paper in one of six sizes, from 30 × 40 cm to 24 × 36″. Printed posters start at $39, shipping included.
Yes. Choose a solid wood frame in black, white, natural oak or dark wood. It comes with shatterproof glazing and is ready to hang. Framed posters start at $99, shipping included.
Shipping is free to 60+ countries. Each poster is printed by the nearest of our print partners in 30+ countries and usually arrives in 3–7 business days. You can follow the status and tracking under My Orders. A few countries take 2–5 weeks, and where we don't ship yet, the site tells you before you pay.
Send us a photo within 14 days of delivery and we will reprint it for free or refund you.
Yes. In the editor on this page, change the title, the subtitle and the coordinates line to anything you like, and pick a style and size. Printed, framed and digital orders all use exactly your design.
For $9 you get 300 DPI PNG and print-ready PDF files in all six sizes, without a watermark, to print anywhere. Not sure yet? Download a free watermarked preview first.
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