Killing

Killing City of Dessau-Roßlau Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 37 ″ N , 12 ° 15 ′ 28 ″ E
Height :	65 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.37 km²
Residents :	2475 (Dec. 31, 2011)
Population density :	566 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	October 1, 1923
Incorporated into:	Dessau
Postal code :	06849
Area code :	0340
	St. Peter's Church

Törten , in dialect Tärtn , is a district of Dessau-Roßlau , an independent city in the state of Saxony-Anhalt . It is located on the Mulde in the southeast of Dessau between the old federal highway 184 (Heidestrasse) in the west and the federal highway 9 in the east.

Törten is best known for the Dessau-Törten settlement there . It was built by Walter Gropius according to the ideals of the Bauhaus between 1926 and 1928. The settlement was supposed to create inexpensive small row houses for workers. A total of 314 houses were built, the size of which varies between 57 and 75 square meters. When the settlement was expanded in 1930, the five portico houses in Dessau-Törten were built , which have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Bauhaus and its sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau since 2017 . Even Carl Fieger , architectural draftsman at the Bauhaus, built his own house there. Furthermore , the steel house built in 1926/1927 by Richard Paulick and the Bauhaus master Georg Muche is in Törten . .

Events

The so-called plum cake festival, a folk festival on the festival meadow at Bürgerplatz, has been taking place every year since 2006 .

Commons : Törten - collection of images, videos and audio files

Information on the area according to calculations by the municipal statistical office of the city of Dessau-Roßlau