Yenidze in Dresden was designed by Martin Hammitzsch in 1907 for the Yenidze Tobacco and Cigarette Factory, founded by the Jewish entrepreneur Hugo Zietz, which imported tobacco from Ottoman Yenidze in Thrace. The infobox and text agree on construction from 1907 to 1909.
The article calls the style Moorish Revival, borrowing from mosques and the Alhambra, and the Oriental design advertised the firm's tobacco origins. It has decorative tiles, about 600 windows in various styles and colored dome chimneys resembling minarets. The infobox gives a height of 203 feet (62 m), and the text gives the dome as 66 feet (20 m).
The building escaped major damage in the 1945 Dresden bombing, apart from some colored glass lost in the dome. It stood isolated for decades and was restored in 1996. It is now an office building. The article gives no hours.
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