City Park Dessau
The Dessau City Park is an approximately eight hectare park west of the historic city center of Dessau . The works of art in the park include the bronze sculpture “ Centaur and Nymph ” by the Berlin sculptor Reinhold Begas (1831–1911), a bust of Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) and monuments to Wilhelm Müller (1794–1827) and Friedrich Schneider (1786–1786– 1853) by the Dessau sculptor Hermann Schubert (1831–1917).
history
A first report on the use of the area comes from the year 1475. Towards the end of the 17th century, twelve gardens were counted here. In 1688, Prince Johann Georg II claimed six of these properties for the new town . His son, Prince Leopold , had the medieval city wall demolished in 1708 and replaced by the more extensive excise wall from 1712. By 1740 he had two palaces built for his sons Prince Eugene and Prince Moritz . In 1780 a garden house was set up in the palace garden as a mausoleum for Prince Eugene and later transformed into an orangery . On the eastern side of Kavalierstrasse, the Ducal Court Theater was built by 1798 according to plans by Erdmannsdorff . The palace of Prince Georg was built around 1830 - what would later become the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie . In the further course of the 19th century, during the period of industrialization , the northern part of today's city park and the surrounding quarters were built over.
During the air raid on Dessau on March 7, 1945, in which 85% of the city was destroyed, trees and buildings in the city garden were also destroyed. In 1950, when it was named Stadtpark, restoration began. The redesign of the area was not completed until 1980.
A stele marks the place where Alberto Adriano , a contract worker from Mozambique , was a victim of right-wing extremist violence on June 11, 2000.
On September 8, 2019, the Bauhaus Museum Dessau opened in the city park , which was built according to plans by the architects addenda architects from Barcelona .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Data and background information on the Dessau City Park ( Memento from October 21, 2019 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 3 ″ N , 12 ° 14 ′ 24 ″ E