UNESCO World Heritage Tour

Most in-depth museum of the history of the Reformation

Luther posted his 95 theses, bound to change the fate of the world, on the door of Wittenberg’s Castle Church.

Martin Luther preached in this church.

Luther’s faithful companion Philipp Melanchthon once lived here.

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.

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.

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 Central Elbe Biosphere Reserve is one of the oldest biosphere reserves in Germany and is traversed by the Elbe, Germany’s third largest river.

Built on the banks of the Elbe River, this historic restaurant occupies one of the most beautiful spots in Dessau-Roßlau.

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.

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

Near the Bauhaus building, the masters of the Bauhaus lived with their families in the „masters’ houses“.

The Bauhaus was the most important school of art, design and architecture of the 20th century.

The experimental settlement Törten represents an outstanding example of the New Building („Neues Bauen“) of the 1920s.

The Laubenganghäuser, or „Housing Estate with balcony access,“ served as “people’s housing” for poorer workers and employees.