Käseglocke, Cultural heritage monument and waiting room near Postplatz, Dresden, Germany

Käseglocke is a pavilion-like waiting hall built in 1927/28 on Postplatz in Dresden. Its floor plan is a quatrefoil with almost semicircular arches, topped by a stepped conical roof whose circular eaves, about three metres in radius, overhang by more than a metre and cover two staircases leading to separate basement entrances on the north side. The single ground-floor room, about five metres high, is entered from the east; the south and west arches are largely glazed. It now operates as a café.

The waiting hall was approved by the city council on 13 September 1927, with 54,000 marks budgeted, nearly 30,000 of which went to the basement with a transformer station and public toilets. Built in winter 1927/28 and handed over on 31 March 1928, it survived the 1945 air raids with only light damage while almost all buildings around Postplatz were destroyed. In the DDR era it gained a loudspeaker on the roof and a ticket counter; after renovations in 1974 and 1979 it was placed under monument protection.

The nickname Käseglocke, "cheese bell", comes from the stepped conical roof that Dresdeners thought resembled a cheese cover. The building opened on 31 March 1928 as a tram waiting hall with a newspaper kiosk inside and toilets in the cellar. Since then it has housed a café, and it is the only structure on Postplatz predating 1945.

The location is easy to find since it sits directly at Postplatz, a central hub in the old town with good public transport connections. Visitors should expect it to be quite crowded during peak hours, particularly when nearby attractions draw large crowds.

The nickname comes from the stepped conical roof and the four-lobed ground plan with almost semicircular arches, which together recall a cheese cover. The circular eaves, about three metres in radius, overhang by more than a metre and shelter the two staircases leading to the former basement entrances on the north side.