What you can enjoy and admire here

The location

The park adjoins the city of Oranienbaum-Wörlitz. This is located in the center of Saxony-Anhalt in the district of Wittenberg.

Visitor information

The park is freely accessible and open all year round.

There are different fees for guided tours of the park, exhibitions and visits to the historical buildings.

Story:

The Wörlitzer Park is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Dessau-Wörlitzer-Gartenreich”. The park was built in the second half of the 18th century. Century under the reign of Prince Leopold III. Friedrich Franz Duke of Anhalt created Dessau. The 112.5 hectare garden is one of the first and largest landscaped parks in the English style. At the same time, the facility pursued an educational mandate and was intended to provide information about architecture, garden art and agriculture.

The extensive park in its overall appearance is extremely well preserved and was included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000 as part of the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm.

description

The Wörlitzer Park is almost exclusively surrounded by natural boundaries. In the north, a flood protection wall separates it from the Elbe, which is very wide at this point. It also serves as a circumferential path from which you can enjoy many of the classic lines of sight, for example to the castle, as well as unique views over the complex.

The park itself is divided into different parts. To list them all would lead too far in this article, so we would like to limit ourselves to the most important ones:

• Neumark's garden: This was created by one of the two most important gardeners on the site, Johann Christian Neumark. There is also a labyrinth that is supposed to symbolize life's wrong ways.
• Schoch's garden: This is the part that the second important gardener of the park created: Johann Leopold Ludwig Schoch the Elder It houses the Gothic House and the White House, among other things Bridge.
• Romantic part: This was created between 1780 and 1790. Small, tunnel-like corridors lead to lovingly designed, secluded scenes such as the prayer place of the hermit or the grottoes under the Temple of Venus.
• Luisenklippe: It gives the appearance of a steep rock that you can climb over steps carved into the stone.
• New grounds: These were laid out from 1790 and expanded the English Garden along the Elbe Wall to the east. It includes agriculturally used areas to a greater extent and thus appears very generous.