13 Sights in Dessau-Roßlau, Germany (with Map and Images)

The Bauhaus Building Dessau, abbreviated Bauhaus Dessau, is the former school building of the State Bauhaus in Dessau. It was designed by Walter Gropius in 1925 and built between 1925 and 1926 for the Bauhaus, which had previously been located in Weimar, as well as for the Dessau School of Arts and Crafts. Just as in the Masters' Houses located in the immediate vicinity and planned and built at the same time, the Bauhaus was able to programmatically realize its architectural and artistic ideas with these new buildings. The building is considered groundbreaking for the development of modern architecture and is one of the best-known examples of modern architecture of the interwar period.

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Mosigkau Castle is a castle in Dessau-Roßlau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was built as a rococo castle between 1752 and 1757 in the heart of the village of Mosigkau, eight kilometres southwest of Dessau, as a summer residence. It is one of the last completely preserved rococo ensembles in Central Germany. Its park is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz. The Museum Schloss Mosigkau and the Orangery regularly host special exhibitions and concerts.

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Richard Paulick was a German architect with political connections. In professional terms his most productive period, frequently overlooked in western sources, may have been the time he spent in Shanghai between 1933 and 1949. He has been described as the "father of East-German Plattenbau" (construction). In the eyes of admirers he was nevertheless able to bring an element of "humanisation" to the economics-driven low-cost high-density post-war reconstruction of East Germany.

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Founded in 1844 as the Sachsenberg brothers, the company was a mechanical engineering and later shipbuilding company that had a significant influence on the industrialization of the city of Roßlau. In 1945, after the complete dismantling and founding of the GDR, the company was renamed VEB Elbe-Werk and VEB Roßlauer Schiffswerft and in 1994 it was renamed RSW Roßlauer Schiffswerft GmbH & Co. KG. Today, the RSW Roßlauer shipyard is part of the Heinrich Rönner Group.

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The Laubenganghäuser Dessau-Törten are five listed residential buildings in the Törten district of the city of Dessau-Roßlau in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. They were built in 1930 by the architect and director of the Bauhaus Hannes Meyer for the Dessau Savings and Building Cooperative. Since 2017, they have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site as buildings of the Bauhaus style; so called Bauhaus sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau.

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The Dessau Palace in Dessau in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt was a princely palace which mostly served as the main residence of the princes of Anhalt-Dessau and later the Dukes of Anhalt. The palace was one of the first renaissance buildings in the middle of Germany. Today, there is only one wing remaining, the Johannbau, which offers room to the City History Museum of Dessau.

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The boathouse in Leopoldshafen is a listed boat hall with a pointed bog roof in the Ziebigk district of the city of Dessau-Roßlau. The steel lamella construction used during the construction was developed by Junkers-Stahlbau around 1920 and patented in 1928. With this construction, which was also used in the aircraft area construction, large halls could be spanned.

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Luisium is a palace and landscape garden in Dessau-Roßlau, Germany. It is a part of Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 1774 work started on a small palace in the style of an English country house, which Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau built for his wife Margravine Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, thus the name Luisium.

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St. Mary's Church is an originally Catholic religious building in the center of the city of Dessau-Roßlau in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, which has been Protestant since 1534. It was destroyed during the air raids on Dessau in March 1945 and was not rebuilt until the 1990s. In the past, St. Mary's was a castle and town church.

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The Wallwitzburg is a miniature castle built towards the end of the 18th century in the form of a medieval castle remain. The artificial ruin is located in the Beckerbruch of the Georgium Landscape Park in the Dessau-Roßlau district of Ziebigk.

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The drinking hall is a drinking hall in Dessau-Roßlau, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is known as the work of the important architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. After a demolition of the building in 1962, it was reconstructed in the 2010s.

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The Dessau Town Hall is a landmark of the city of Dessau, built from 1898 to 1901 according to plans by the Charlottenburg architects Reinhardt and Süßenguth, and the seat of the city administration of Dessau-Roßlau.

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The Georgium is a princely palace in Dessau, Germany. It was built for Johann Georg von Anhalt-Dessau, younger brother of Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau. It now houses the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie art gallery.

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