Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm
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How it came to be
Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau (1740-1817), a man of the Enlightenment, used landscape gardening to express his ideas. Around 1764, with the architect Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff, he began laying out gardens along the Elbe and Mulde rivers.
Wörlitz was the starting point and is described as the first landscape garden in continental Europe. Schloss Wörlitz, built in 1769-1773, was the first Neo-Classical building in Germany, and the Gothic House of 1774 helped spark the Gothic Revival across Europe.
Over forty years the Georgium, the Luisium and the woodland park on the Sieglitzer Berg were added, culminating in the Kühnau park in 1805. The garden realm of some 140 square kilometres, with more than 100 buildings, was inscribed in 2000.
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