Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm

* This name is listed on the World Heritage List. ª The region is classified by UNESCO.

The Dessau- Wörlitz is a Europe- eminent cultural landscape in Saxony -Anhalt, consisting of several buildings and landscape park in the English style.

The Garden Kingdom today covers an area of 142 km ² along the Elbe River in the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve. Since November 2000 a UNESCO World Heritage Site. For the Garden Kingdom of the Palaces and Parks Luisium, Georgium include ( here is the Anhalt Art Gallery housed ), Mosigkau, Großkühnau, Leiner Berg, Sieglitzer Mountain, Oranienbaum and Wörlitz.

The Dessau- Wörlitz was included in the book published in 2001 Blue Book. The Blue Book is a list of nationally important cultural institutions in East Germany and currently consists of 20 so-called cultural beacons. The selection of cultural sites at the initiative of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in cooperation with the East German culture ministers. The financing bears a majority of the federal government.

History

The landscape park near Dessau was Leopold III. Founded Friedrich Franz of Anhalt- Dessau. When Prince of the Enlightenment he dismissed the Baroque garden and was looking for his garden creation role models that were based on the nature of Stourhead and Ermenonville.

Churches in the Garden Kingdom

During the founding period originated in the Garden Realm, numerous churches, were rebuilt and extended. Thus, in the outskirts of Dessau churches in Waldersee (former village name Jonitz, 1722-1725 ), Mosigkau (1789 ), Mildensee (former village name Pötnitz, 1804-1806 ) and Großkühnau ( 1828-1830 ). These suburbs are now incorporated in Dessau.

To the east of the Garden Kingdom churches Oranienbaum (1707-1712), Riesigk (1797-1800), Wörlitz (1804-1809), Vockerode (1810-1812) and Horstdorf (1872 ) were new or rebuilt.

The Church in Rehsen (1680, 1707) has been built previously, as well as the church in Goltewitz ( 13-14. Century), now the district of Orange Tree. Goltewitz originally belonged not to Anhalt, but was Saxon / Prussian and the Church as a branch of the church in the community was thus Jüdenberg abroad.

Gallery

The Wallwitzburg, reconstruction 2011

Castle Mosigkau

Palace and Park Luisium

Mausoleum at the Tierpark Dessau

Castle Großkühnau

Woerlitzer Castle