Schloss Luisium

Ⓒ Uwe Weigel

Gondelfahrt auf dem Wörlitzer See

Venustempel im Wörlitzer Park

Ⓒ Uwe Weigel

Schlosspark Pretzsch

Ⓒ Anja Knorr

Kurpark Bad Schmiedeberg

Ⓒ Uwe Weigel

Georgengarten

Ⓒ Uwe Weigel

Ionischer Tempel im Georgengarten Dessau-Roßlau

Ⓒ Uwe Weigel

Garden dreams in the World Heritage Region

Passion for beauty

In 2000, Saxony-Anhalt started a project unique in Germany. The most beautiful, important and popular sites among the ca. 1,000 garden monuments between the Harz mountains and the rivers Elbe and Saale were selected and combined to the meta-entity "Garden Dreams: Historical Parks in Saxony-Anhalt" to foster preservation and tourism at the same time.

Today, 50 sites belong to the initiative. 11 of them are in the World Heritage region Anhalt-Dessau-Wittenberg, among them the UNESCO World Heritage Site Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Kingdom. Following extensive restoration work, the parks today shine in renewed splendor.

Gondelfahrt auf dem Wörlitzer See

Wörlitz Castle and Landscape Park

Leopold III Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau built the first English landscape park on the European continent.

Schloss Oranienbaum

Oranienbaum Castle and Park

Discover a piece of Holland in this castle and park complex, built as an ensemble in the Dutch Baroque style.

Schloss Mosigkau

Mosigkau Castle and Park

Today, the Mosigkau castle complex is one of the last largely preserved rococo ensembles in Central Germany.

Schloss Luisium

Luisium Palace and Park

Between 1774 and 1778, Prince Franz von Anhalt-Dessau had the small Luisium country house built for his wife Louise as a private residence.

Schloss Georgium

Georgium Castle and Park

The 20-hectares of „George’s garden“ (the Georgengarten surrounding the castle Georgium) are a remarkable example of the ideas of Enlightenment.

Schloss Großkühnau

Großkühnau Castle and Park

The park of Großkühnau is the youngest complex of the Garden Kingdom Dessau-Wörlitz. Today, the castle is the seat of the Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation.

Solitude im Waldpark Sieglitzer Berg

Forest park Sieglitzer Berg

Prince Franz of Anhalt-Dessau had a forest park with a small classicist castle laid out to the west of Vockerode in the years following 1777.

Kurpark Bad Schmiedeberg

Kurpark Bad Schmiedeberg

Der historische Kurpark Bad Schmiedeberg ist seit vielen Jahrzehnten ein wichtiger Bereich des Kurlebens der Stadt.

Irrgarten Altjeßnitz

Ⓒ Heiko Rebsch

Altjeßnitz maze

The Altjeßnitz maze is in a park in the picturesque Mulde floodplain. It is the largest and oldest baroque maze in Germany. Its two-meter-high hornbeam hedges and narrow paths make for an impressive maze.

Schlosspark Köthen

Köthen Castle Park

Striking old trees, early bloomers and the castle, once the workplace of Johann Sebastian Bach, characterize the image of Köthen’s castle park.

Schlosspark Pretzsch

Pretzsch Castle Gardens

The garden of Pretzsch Castle was created in the early 18th century and served as a Baroque pleasure garden for Christiane Eberhardine, the Saxon Electress and Queen of Poland.

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