Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm

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Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 49 ″  N , 12 ° 16 ′ 53 ″  E

Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz
UNESCO world heritage UNESCO World Heritage Emblem

Wörlitz III.jpg
Boat landing stage at Wörlitz Castle
National territory: GermanyGermany Germany
Type: Culture
Criteria : (ii) (iv)
Surface: 14,500 ha
Reference No .: 534rev
UNESCO region : Europe and North America
History of enrollment
Enrollment: 2000  (session 24)
German postage stamp from 2002 from the series "UNESCO World Cultural Heritage"

The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm is a cultural landscape in Saxony-Anhalt that is significant throughout Europe and consists of several buildings and landscape parks based on the English model.

The Garden Realm today covers an area of ​​142 km² along the Elbe in the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve . It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since November 2000 . It was included in the Blue Book published in 2001. The Blue Book is a list of nationally important cultural institutions in East Germany and currently includes 20 so-called cultural lighthouses . The selection of the cultural sites was made on the initiative of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in coordination with the East German ministers of culture. Most of the funding comes from the federal government.

history

The landscape park in and around Dessau was created by Leopold III. Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau founded. As Prince of Enlightenment , he rejected the baroque garden and looked for models for his garden creation that were based on nature: Stourhead and Ermenonville .

Attractions

Castles and parks

According to the garden realm's homepage, this includes:

Historical buildings

The following historical buildings are listed on the overall map of the Garden Realm:

Churches

During the founding period, numerous churches were built in the garden realm or were rebuilt and expanded:

Philatelic

On July 12, 2018, the first day of issue, Deutsche Post AG issued a postage stamp with a face value of 45 euro cents with a panoramic view of the Garden Realm in the series Germany's Most Beautiful Panoramas . The design comes from the graphic designers Stefan Klein and Olaf Neumann from Iserlohn.

literature

  • Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz (ed.): The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz - cultural landscape on the Elbe and Mulde . 8th edition. L&H Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-939629-54-2 .
  • Thomas Weiß, Christa Hasselhorst and others: flora, fauna, garden friends: the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Kingdom in the cycle of nature. Verlag Janos Stekovics, Wettin-Löbejün 2015 ISBN 978-3899233520
  • Matthias Prasse: Arcadia on the Elbe River. Palaces and gardens between Wittenberg and Dessau. Herrenhaus-Kultur-Verlag, Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030860-4
  • Hansjörg Küster and Ansgar Hoppe: The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz. Landscape and history. Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-59859-3 .
  • Roland Krawulsky: Dessau-Wörlitz. Guide to the garden kingdom . 6th edition. edition RK, Dessau 2010, ISBN 978-3-934388-04-8 .
  • August Rode: Description of the Princely Anhalt-Dessau country house and English garden in Wörlitz. Edited by Christian Eger, illustrated by Claudia Berg, Halle 2008, ISBN 978-3-89812-576-5 .
  • Michael Pantenius: Wittenberg - Dessau - Wörlitz. The UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Travel Guide, Halle 2008, ISBN 978-3-89812-558-1 .
  • Kaevan Gazdar: ruler in paradise. Prince Franz and the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz. Aufbau-Verlag , Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-351-02633-2 .
  • Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz (Ed.): Infinitely beautiful. The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm . Nicolai, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-89479-197-1 . * Horst duration: Churches in the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm . Ed .: Evangelische Landeskirche Anhalt. Anhalt Edition, 2000, ISBN 3-910192-63-7 .
  • Christian Antz: The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm. Regional policy for a cultural landscape . In: Die Gartenkunst  10 (2/1998), pp. 268–274.
  • Norbert Eisold: The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm - The dream of reason . DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7701-3142-8 (DuMont Taschenbücher 286).
  • Dessau-Wörlitzer cultural landscape (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 52). 1st edition. Self-published by the Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-86082-013-3 .

Movies

  • The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm. Documentary, Germany, 2013, 52 min., Script and director: Joachim Günther, moderation: Wladimir Kaminer , production: MDR , arte , series: Diesseits von Eden, first broadcast: September 1, 2013 by arte, summary by arte, discussion of the MZ .
  • The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm. The useful in the beautiful. Documentary, Germany, 2008, 14:50 min., Script and director: Sarah Palmer, production: SWR , series: Schätze der Welt , first broadcast: July 20, 2008 in SWR, table of contents and online video by SWR.
  • The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm. 200 years of utopia for a more beautiful world. Documentary, Germany, 1999, 43:20 min., Script and director: Dieter Wieland , production: Bayerisches Fernsehen , series: Topographie, synopsis by ARD .

Web links

Commons : Wörlitzer Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Palaces and parks of the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz ( Memento from April 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) at www.gartenreich.com
  2. Complete map of the Garden Kingdom ( memento of April 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at www.gartenreich.com , pdf, 2013.