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Discover the diversity of a fascinating double city. Four times world heritage in the heart of Germany. That is Dessau-Roßlau.
Dessau is the town with the closest associations to the Bauhaus. No fewer than three sites are UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the Bauhaus Building, the Masters’ Houses and the Houses with Balcony Access (Laubenganghäuser). From the Kornhaus on the Elbe to the Employment Office and Törten Housing Estate, Bauhaus architecture is omnipresent.
Dessau, now Dessau-Roßlau, has a population of 68,000 (2020) and is the third largest city in the Saxony-Anhalt region of Germany. Dessau is historically the capital of the Principality (later Duchy) of Anhalt. In the 20th century it became famous for the Junkers aircraft factory and the Bauhaus school of architecture and design.
The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz, located in Saxony-Anhalt in the Middle Elbe Region, is an exceptional example of landscape design and planning from the Age of the Enlightenment in the 18th century. Its diverse components – the outstanding buildings, English-style landscaped parks and gardens, and subtly modified expanses of ...
The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Kingdom with its countless parks and castles is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Unique in Germany!
Dessau is a town and former municipality in Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. The next larger cities are Halle, about 40 km southwest, Leipzig, about 52 km south and Magdeburg, about 54 km northwest.
Jan 26, 2020 · 1. Bauhaus Dessau. Source: Shutterstock. Bauhaus Dessau. Walter Gropius designed the highly influential main building of the Bauhaus school in 1926, and he drew up the plans in his own office as the school didn’t have an architecture department until 1927.
