Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
Overview
The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is an exceptional example of landscape design and planning of the Age of the Enlightenment, the 18th century. Its diverse components - outstanding buildings, landscaped parks and gardens in the English style, and subtly modified expanses of agricultural land - serve aesthetic, educational, and economic purposes in an exemplary manner.
About Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm is a cultural landscape and World Heritage Site in Germany, located between the city of Dessau and the town of Wörlitz in Central Germany. One of the first and largest English parks in Germany and continental Europe, it was created in the late 18th century under the regency of Duke Leopold III of Anhalt-Dessau. Today, the cultural landscape of Dessau-Wörlitz encompasses an area of 142 km2 (55 sq mi) within the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Because of its exceptional landscape design and testimony to the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm was designated as a world heritage site in 2000.
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Components(3 locations)
- •Palace Mosigkau534bis-003
- •Parks of Wörlitz534bis-001
- •Historical Graveyard Dessau534bis-002
Details
- Countries
- Germany
- ISO Codes
- DE
- Area
- 11,891 ha
- Coordinates
- 51.8425, 12.4208
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