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Dessau

Bauhaus and lots more

Dessau is situated between Leipzig and Berlin and is now with its neighboring city under the name of Dessau summarized. The city has a total of about 90,000 inhabitants and is drained by the Elbe. In the area there are numerous green areas like the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz are the Wörlitzer Park, which was collected by the UNESCO World Heritage Site and is one of the largest German landscape parks in the English style.

barge on the river Elbe at Dessau Ziebigk

magically attracts the most visitors because of its famous landmarks: the Bauhaus. It was founded in 1919 in Weimar in 1925 and moved to Dessau. The design of the main building is from Walter Gropius and was inaugurated 1926th This was originally the offices, studios and 28 apartments with 20 sqm for staff and students of the college were housed. In 1932 the school closed and the war seriously damaged. Then began reconstruction, during which they completed the building in 1974 under monument protection. After Reunion continued in a reorganization, and the Bauhaus was declared a World Heritage Site. Today it is home to the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, which is especially dedicated to the research and documentation. Also an exhibition on local history can be visited here.

The famous Bauhaus Gropius at the Avenue 38 was built in 1925/26 and is now a UNESCO World Heritage

The Masters' Houses in Dessau are in the Ebert Allee Ziebigk hamlet on the road to Großkühnau. They were built in 1925 / 26 Walter Gropius commissioned by the city of Dessau. There are three detached houses and a villa, two of which during the war Damage suffered. The listed Bauhaus architecture and contains the nested cubic body, the New Modern attributed. Resided in these buildings since 1926 the architect Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus master László Moholy-Nagy, Lyonel Feininger, Georg Muche, Oskar Schlemmer and Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. For its time it was not unusual that the builders of the house and then inhabited. Since 1992 these houses were extensively renovated to make them public in a lifelike state walkable. Today a museum is housed, which also offers art exhibits and guided tours of the rooms.

Masters' Houses in Dessau-Ziebigk

The Kurt Weill Centre is housed in a Bauhaus-style house built Feininger. Here too is a musician Museum, an information and documentation center and archives, libraries, library organization and space for the annual, international Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau. Kurt Weill was at 02 March 1900 in Dessau, the son born of the Jewish cantor. He went to school here and started from 1913 with the composition of individual pieces of music.

Kandinsky / Klee, Ebert Allee 69/71

then he studied from 1915 to 1918 with Albert Bing, 1 Conductor of the Ducal Court Theatre to Dessau and later in Berlin. Weill's first opera, The Protagonist "was on 27 March 1926 at the Dresden State Opera premiered. Since 1927, he worked closely with Bertolt Brecht. In 1935 he immigrated with his wife Lotte Lenya in the United States. There he enjoyed great Broadway successes that have been filmed, among others, Hollywood. On 03 April 1950 Kurt Weill died in New York. The memorial provides information in German and English about the life and work of the artist. In addition to documentation, there are signs to watch a thirty minute film. On the basis of sound samples, the visitor an idea of Weill's make music. It Special exhibitions are held regularly.

settlement in Dessau-Törten with notice board

The settlement was built from 1926 to 1928 in Dessau-Törten located around the Damaschkestraße. It was built by Walter Gropius designed for families who value a modern lifestyle and place still affordable. In three phases a total of 314 buildings were constructed in the Bauhaus style. They have over 350 to 400 square meters of gardens to grow vegetables and small livestock. The row houses have a cube shape and are combined into duplexes and groups of four to twelve units. Since the end of the work already Defects occurred were many houses changed several times. From 1992, work began in the faithful restoration of the building, was established in the course of 1994, an elaborate design and conservation statutes.

Dessauer The station of 1952 is modeled on the Bauhaus style

Except as stated herein, there are complexes in Dessau, numerous other buildings in the Bauhaus period. Mentioned are the Municipal Employment Office of Walter Gropius, the restaurant storehouse, the steel house, the house Fieger, Moses Mendelssohn Centre, the gallery houses and buildings, the consumer. They all originated in the great age of these Architecture today by famous architect from 1926 to 1930. On the official website www.bauhaus-dessau.de all information and buildings are included in the Dessau city.

Dessau has many modern buildings, some ugly, some very interesting how this discovery in the station area

The center

the Dessau city center was destroyed during the war and is therefore now widely characterized by plain slab buildings. Only occasionally are found even between products of old. Noticeably, however, that an attempt was made to preserve the existing buildings and the newly added to beautify appearance. The old town is not big, but has a shopping street and interesting buildings in the early days outdoors. In this ensemble joins also a Museum of Natural History and history with an exhibition of fossils and stone age animal population.

Anhalt State Theatre

Mary's Church is the ancient church in the city center. Already on Holy Thursday, 1534 where the start of the Reformation in Dessau was initiated. Martin Luther preached behind these walls. The architect Ludwig Binder completed the church in 1554th It was built in a north German brick Gothic architecture and is one of the most southern buildings of this style. In addition, it contains components such as the late Gothic period and the early Renaissance. Only in the years 1990 to 1998 the Church after destruction in World War II was rebuilt. Today, it hosts exhibitions and events, including the Dessau city and regional history. The visit is part of guided tours available.

Prince Leopold Memorial in front of St Mary's

The Museum of local history back to 1999 Johann Building, located next to St. Mary's Church. It is the west wing of the former residential palace of the princes and dukes of Anhalt, who survived without prejudice as the only world war. It was built from 1530 to 1533 and is considered one of the oldest and most important palace buildings of the early Renaissance. Since August 2005, the museum offers three floors of current exhibitions on urban and regional history, the Royal Palace and Johann Building, Church and Reformation, Dessauer Jewish personalities of the city, Bauhaus, and much more. Also special exhibitions are offered on various topics. The museum is handicapped accessible (accessibility, semi-automatic doors, lift, toilet).

The City Palace, also called Johann Building

Georgengarten

a visit is well worth the north of the main train George garden. The sprawling plant runs into the Elbe. Here is the Castle (George house) of 1780, in which the Anhalt Art Gallery is situated. In addition, many other architectural features found in this environment, such as an orangery, the Ionic temple, replica of ruins, arches, pavilions, sculptures and stone benches. The center is the zoo with its impressive dome. This area is ideal for walkers, nature and animal lovers as for photographers, because there are a plethora of reasons.

castle in the garden George

Country Park Kühnau

far from Dessau, a charge the banks of the Elbe areas for recreation. The Kühnauer Lake is located on the edge of belonging to Dessau village Großkühnau. It is part of a stone medieval side arm of the Elbe. To run the waters around the same cycle, Prince Franz-way and footpaths. There is also a natural swimming pool on the bank, which opened in the season. Behind the lake is the site of the Landscape Park Kühnau that is part of the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz and the route "Garden Dreams" is.

path around the lake Kühnauer

is in it the classical vineyard castle from 1818 to 1820, erected by an Italian architect and designed a garden with statues. Nearby is the Romanesque church and the Kühnauer castle, which is used by the Cultural Foundation Dessau-Wörlitz.

Luisium

About five miles east of downtown is the village Waldersee. His famous attractions are the castle and park Luisium. The ensemble is part of the Dessau-Wörlitz and is under the protection of UNESCO world cultural heritage. Prince Leopold III. von Anhalt-Dessau, the park was in the 18th Century for his wife Luise design. The visitor walks along the snake house decorated to the Orangery, the outdoors during the warm season with exotic tree is. Around a courtyard with a manor is a guest house. The park can admire the ruins in the ancient style.

Luisium

roads lead to the castle, which rises on a hill overlooking the river course. A wooden bridge spans the waters, and invites you to view one of the property. Spread over the park, there are tall trees, sculptures and other masterpieces the architecture.

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