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Since 1993, the city has hosted an annual Kurt Weill Festival. Dessau was also the birthplace of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (in 1729), and Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (der alte Dessauer) (on 3 July 1676), a lauded field marshal for the Kingdom of Prussia.
Dessau is the largest population centre within Dessau-Roßlau, with approximately 79,000 inhabitants (2021). Most of the town is located on the left bank of the river Mulde, south of its confluence with the river Elbe.
Discover the diversity of a fascinating double city. Four times world heritage in the heart of Germany. That is Dessau-Roßlau.
Dessau, city, Saxony-Anhalt Land (state), east-central Germany. It lies on the Mulde River at its confluence with the Elbe River, northeast of Halle. The German town, which developed from a Sorbian settlement, was first mentioned in 1213.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dessau is the town with the closest associations to the Bauhaus. No fewer than three sites are UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the Bauhaus Building, the Masters’ Houses and the Houses with Balcony Access (Laubenganghäuser). From the Kornhaus on the Elbe to the Employment Office and Törten Housing Estate, Bauhaus architecture is omnipresent.
Erleben Sie vier Mal UNESCO-Welterbe in Dessau-Roßlau. Die UNESCO-Weltkulturerbestätten Bauhaus und Dessau-Wörlitzer Gartenreich liegen in direkter Nachbarschaft. Sie umgibt die ursprüngliche Natur des UNESCO-Biosphärenreservats Mittelelbe.
Dessau, now Dessau-Roßlau, has a population of 68,000 (2020) and is the third largest city in the Saxony-Anhalt region of Germany. Dessau is historically the capital of the Principality (later Duchy) of Anhalt.
