BAUHAUS

Dessau and Weimar

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Bauhaus sites in Dessau and Weimar UNESCO World Heritage Site Since 1996

The “Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar” was founded by Walter Gropius as a school of Art and Architecture in 1919. Teaching took place in the buildings of the former School of Fine Arts or School of Applied Arts, which were designed by Henry van de Velde. Both buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage and today house the Bauhaus University of Weimar. The Haus Am Horn”, built in 1923 to the plans of Georg Muche, is open to the public.

In 1925, the Bauhaus School moved to Dessau. Only one year later, the Bauhaus Building, designed by Walter Gropius, was officially opened. To this day it is regarded as a pioneering example of modern architecture in the early 20th century. At the same time, the Master’s Houses were built for the family of Gropius himself and those of the artists Moholy-Nagy, Feininger, Muches Schlemmer, Kandinsky and Klee. Both the Bauhaus building and the Master’s Houses are open to the public.

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A Tip: Kurt Weill festival in the city of Dessau

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Dessau-Worlitz

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Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Worlitz a UNESCO World Heritage Site Since 2000

The Garden Kingdom was the brainchild of Prince Leopold lll Freidrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau (1740-1817), who sought, with many of his reforms, to create a harmonious union between man and nature. He set the Garden Kingdom in a landscape defined by rivers and meadows. Palaces, gardens and tree lined streets, park buildings, follies and other small architectural gems blend so naturally into the environment that they give the whole “kingdom” the appearance of one endless park.

The classical Luisium Palace with its English Garden, the rococo Mosigkau palace and park, the Großkuhnau country park and the Georgium, whose palace houses the Anhalt Art Gallery, surround the town of Dessau. They form a seamless whole with the baroque town, palace and park of Oranienbaum and the most important part of the Garden Kingdom, the Wörlitz Park.

A Tip: From May to August there are lakeside concerts on Saturdays in Worlitz.

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