Loschwitz is a borough of Dresden, Germany, incorporated in 1921. It consists of ten quarters:
Loschwitz
Wachwitz
Bühlau
Weißer Hirsch
Rochwitz
Hosterwitz
Pillnitz
Niederpoyritz
Oberpoyritz
Söbrigen
Loschwitz is a villa quarter located at the slopes north of the Elbe river. At the top of the hillside is the quarter of Weißer Hirsch, named after a former inn erected in 1685 by the Saxon kapellmeister Christoph Bernhard, where in 1888 the naturopathic physician Heinrich Lahmann opened a sanatorium. The quarters of Wachwitz and Pillnitz are adjacent in the east and the Rosengarten park in the west. Loschwitz is connected with the borough of Blasewitz south of the Elbe by the Blue Wonder bridge. Furthermore, the borough encompasses large parts of the Dresden Heath, the city's forest.
The old village of Loschwitz, a wine-growing area since the 11th century, was first mentioned in a 1227 deed. About 1660 Elector John George II of Saxony had several vineyards laid out at the hillside, that soon became a fashionable recreational and residential area for the Dresden nobility and wealthy bourgeois like the composer Heinrich Schütz or the goldsmith Johann Melchior Dinglinger.