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Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz

Germany
Date of Inscription: 2000
Criteria: (ii)(iv)
Property : 14500.0000 ha
State of Saxony-Anhalt (Sachsen-Anhalt)
N51 50 33 E12 25 14.988
Ref: 534rev

Brief Description

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.
Photo 5: Palace Georgium in the Georgium garden, built about 1785 by F.W. v. Erdmannsdorff | Nomination File © UNESCO More pictures ...

Justification for Inscription

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.

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