"Firsts," "Oldests," "Biggests" ABOVE: A vessel of Sächsische
Dampfschiffahrt, Germany's oldest fleet of Normally we don't use
press releases in our editorial coverage, but the Dresden
Tourist Office has put together a release titled "Dresden - A
Record-Breaking City" that deserves wider circulation. Here's a
lightly-edited and abridged version: The first German Pilsner
beer The Radeberger Exportbier-Brauerei brewed Germany's first
Pilsner in the late 19th Century. (That beer is now Dresden's
leading brew.) Germany's first beer mat Rudolph Sputh of Dresden
patented an "absorbent wood-fiber beer-glass coaster" in 1892,
ending the enmity between beer and tablecloths. The world's
first bra In Saxony, it's said that beautiful women grow on
trees, but their beauty is need of direction and support. On
September 5, 1895, Fräulein Christine Hart applied for the first
patent on a "bodice to keep the breast in shape." largest
Protestant church on the European continent Saxony was in the
forefront of the Reformation, an