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Dessau is famous as the second site of the Bauhaus school. It moved here in 1925 after it had been forced to close in Weimar. Many famous artists were lecturers in Dessau in the following years, among them Walter Gropius, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. The Nazis control of
- 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.
- Bauhaus Masters’ Houses. Dessau also funded the Gropius-designed houses for the Bauhaus teachers, who rented them from the city. Gropius and his wife Ise lived in the largest, detached property, built in a row with three semi-detached houses, each with identical modular floor-plans.
- Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm. Across Dessau there’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site for stately buildings and gardens from the 18th-century reign of Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau.
- Schloss Wörlitz. The Garden Realm has the first Palladian palace built outside England. Schloss Wörlitz took the place of a Baroque hunting lodge, and was finished in 1773 to celebrate the duke’s recent marriage to of Margravine Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt.
Discover the diversity of a fascinating double city. Four times world heritage in the heart of Germany. That is Dessau-Roßlau.
Dessau, city, Saxony-Anhalt Land (state), east-central Germany. It lies on the Mulde River at its confluence with the Elbe River, northeast of Halle. The German town, which developed from a Sorbian settlement, was first mentioned in 1213.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dessau is the largest population centre within Dessau-Roßlau, with approximately 79,000 inhabitants (2021). Most of the town is located on the left bank of the river Mulde, south of its confluence with the river Elbe. Dessau was first mentioned in 1213, and became the capital of a small state (Anhalt-Dessau) in the 14th century
Viermal Welterbe in einer Stadt. Erleben Sie vier Mal UNESCO-Welterbe in Dessau-Roßlau. Die UNESCO-Weltkulturerbestätten Bauhaus und Dessau-Wörlitzer Gartenreich liegen in direkter Nachbarschaft. Sie umgibt die ursprüngliche Natur des UNESCO-Biosphärenreservats Mittelelbe.
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.
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