World Heritage Identification Number: 534
World Heritage since: 2000
Category: Cultural Heritage
Transboundary Heritage: No
Endangered Heritage: No
Country: 🇩🇪 Germany
Continent: Europe
UNESCO World Region: Europe and North America
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The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz: A Landscape Design Masterpiece from the Age of Enlightenment
The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000, stands as a testament to the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century. This cultural landscape, spanning an area of 142 square kilometers within the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, offers a unique blend of aesthetics, education, and economics.
More to come…UNESCO Description of the World Heritage Site
The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is an exceptional example of landscape design and planning of the Age of the Enlightenment, the 18th century. Its diverse components - outstanding buildings, landscaped parks and gardens in the English style, and subtly modified expanses of agricultural land - serve aesthetic, educational, and economic purposes in an exemplary manner.
UNESCO Justification of the World Heritage Site
Criterion (ii): The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is an outstanding example of the application of the philosophical principles of the Age of the Enlightenment to the design of a landscape that integrates art, education, and economy in a harmonious whole.
Criterion (iv): The 18th century was a seminal period for landscape design, of which the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz is an exceptional and wide-ranging illustration.
Encyclopedia Record: Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm
The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm is a cultural landscape and World Heritage Site in Germany, located between the city of Dessau and the town of Wörlitz in Central Germany. One of the first and largest English parks in Germany and continental Europe, it was created in the late 18th century under the regency of Duke Leopold III of Anhalt-Dessau. Today, the cultural landscape of Dessau-Wörlitz encompasses an area of 142 km2 (55 sq mi) within the Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Because of its exceptional landscape design and testimony to the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment, the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm was designated as a world heritage site in 2000.Additional Site Details
Area: 11,891 hectares
(iv) — Outstanding example of a type of building or landscape
Coordinates: 51.8425 , 12.42083
