Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm (Dessau-Wörlitzer Gartenreich), Germany

Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm

 

Location: Saxony-Anhalt Map

Constructed: 18th century by Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
Area: 142 km2 (54.8 sq mi)
Open: Mar, 6th Nov- 1st Dec: 10am- 4pm Wed- Sun
Apr and Oct- 3rd Nov: 10am- 4:30pm Tue- Sun
May- Sep: 10am- 5:30pm Tue- Su

 

Description of Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm

The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm is a cultural landscape in Saxony-Anhalt that is important throughout Europe, consisting of several buildings and landscape parks based on the English model.

The Garden Kingdom now covers an area of 142 km² along the Elbe in the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since November 2000. It was included in the Blue Book published in 2001. The Blue Book is a list of nationally significant cultural institutions in East Germany and currently includes 20 so-called cultural beacons. The cultural sites were selected on the initiative of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in coordination with the East German Ministers of Education. The majority of the funding comes from the federal government.

 

History

The landscape park in and around Dessau was created by Leopold III. Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau founded. As Prince of Enlightenment, he rejected the baroque garden and looked for models for his garden creation that were based on nature: Stourhead and Ermenonville.

 

Attractions

Castles and parks

According to the garden realm's homepage, this includes:

Wörlitz Castle with Wörlitz Park
Gothic house in Wörlitz Park
Oranienbaum Castle
Mosigkau Castle
Luisium Castle
Großkühnau Castle
Georgium Castle (this is where the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie is located)
The park on the Sieglitzer Berg

 

Historical buildings

The following historical buildings are listed on the overall map of the Garden Realm:
Historical cemetery Dessau
Grave monument in Drehberg
Elbe Customs House
Schoolhouse in Griesen
Obelisk at Ochsenwall
Vineyard house in the Kühnau landscape park
Proteus stone
Sweden House
Tower of the eight winds also called Napoleon's Tower
several (11?) wall guard houses
Wallwitzburg

 

Churches

During the founding period, numerous churches were built or rebuilt and expanded in the garden realm:
today's suburbs of Dessau-Roßlau:
Church in Waldersee (former place name Jonitz, 1722–1725)
Church in Mosigkau (1789)
Church in Mildensee (former place name Pötnitz, 1804-1806) and
Church in Großkühnau (1828–1830).

 

in the east of the garden kingdom:
Church in Oranienbaum (1707–1712)
Church in Riesigk (1797–1800)
Church in Wörlitz (1804–1809)
Church in Vockerode (1810-1812) and
Church in Horstdorf (1872)

 

already erected:
Church in Rehsen (1680, 1707)
Church in Goltewitz (13th / 14th century), now part of Oranienbaum. Goltewitz did not originally belong to Anhalt, but was Saxon / Prussian and the church as a branch of the church of the Jüdenberg community was thus abroad.

 

Philatelic

With the first day of issue July 12, 2018, Deutsche Post AG issued a postage stamp with a nominal value of 45 euro cents with a panoramic view of the Garden Kingdom as part of the series Germany's most beautiful panoramas. The design came from the graphic designers Stefan Klein and Olaf Neumann from Iserlohn.

 

Tourism

With their World Heritage Sites, Dessau and Wörlitz are part of the Anhalt-Dessau-Wittenberg World Heritage Region. The association is dedicated to the tourism marketing of the region and sells the World Heritage Card, a guest card with which many tourist offers in connection with the Garden Kingdom in Dessau and Wörlitz can be used free of charge or at a reduced price. At the same time, the UNESCO World Heritage Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz will be sold under the Luther | Bauhaus | Garden Kingdom marketed by the World Heritage Region. The so-called World Heritage Line (bus route 304) connects the World Heritage sites in Dessau and Wörlitz with those in Wittenberg.