Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Kingdom
Stroll trough unique landscape gardens.
Stroll trough unique landscape gardens
UNESCO World Cultural Heritage:
Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Kingdom
Wörlitz: parklands
Oranienbaum: city, castle and park
Dessau: Georgium palace and park
Dessau: Luisium palace and park
Dessau: Mosigkau palace and park
Dessau: Großkühnau landscape garden
The wonderfully designed landscape encircles the former residence town of Dessau like a green belt. A Europe-wide unique garden landscape was created in the center of the former Anhalt-Dessau principality in the 17th and 19th century. The credit of Dessau's garden kingdom goes to Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz von Anhalt Dessau, who, in the 18th century, was inspired by the theories of Enlightenment and by industrial and agricultural developments in England. He then converted his thoughts into a gorgeous garden.
All gardens, palaces, marshlands, and alleys are within view of each other.
Thanks to the gardens principle of "usefulness and beauty”, UNESCO added the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Kingdom to its World Cultural Heritage list in 2000.
Centerpiece of the Garden Kingdom is the Wörlitz Park with a series of adjoining small, but nonetheless beautiful landscape gardens. Oranienbaum boasts Germany’s only Chinese garden. The English-style Luisium palace and gardens on the outskirts of Dessau is the Park’s undisputed highlight.
Also very attractive are Kühnau Park, Beckerbruch and the Endglish-stlye Georgen gardens and the palace which today accommodates over 2000 objects from royal courts, paintings from the Dürer period, and the main works of Lucas Cranach.
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