Garden dreams in the World Heritage Region

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The historic Bad Schmiedeberg spa gardens have been an important part of the town's spa life for many decades.

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.

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

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.

In dem wieder gesicherten Ostflügel des Schlosses können im Sommerhalbjahr Ausstellungen und Veranstaltungen besucht und in die Historie eingetaucht werden.