Dessau-Roßlau: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Dessau-Roßlau offers visitors experiences centered around palace and museum collections, the Elbe floodplain landscape, Bauhaus architecture, and city sightseeing. A diverse picture of the city emerges between culture, riverside landscapes, and unique excursion destinations.

Culture

Bauhaus Dessau comprises the Bauhaus Building, the Masters’ Houses, and the Arcade Houses in the Dessau-Törten estate. The Bauhaus Museum Dessau permanently displays the collection of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.

The palaces and museums also take visitors through different eras and themes. Mosigkau Palace and Park is one of the few largely original Rococo ensembles in Germany. Luisium Palace is a Neoclassical palais built between 1774 and 1778 in Dessau’s northeastern landscaped garden. In Roßlau, the Maritime Museum presents the history of Elbe shipping and shipbuilding using ship models and maritime equipment.

Nature

The Middle Elbe Biosphere Reserve near Dessau-Roßlau has cycling and hiking trails through its core zone. The Elbe near Dessau-Roßlau offers opportunities for paddling along natural banks with little ship traffic. The Auenhaus Visitor Center provides information about the landscape and the opportunity to observe beavers outdoors in their natural habitat.

Near Dessau-Roßlau, the Elbe flows largely unobstructed through one of Central Europe’s last large floodplain forest complexes. This landscape also provides the setting for further routes through the Garden Kingdom: the 68-kilometre Fürst Franz Garden Realm Tour connects palaces and parks in the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm through the Elbe floodplain landscape.

Getting Around

Dessau-Roßlau has rail connections to Berlin, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Halle, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, and Köthen.

Leisure

At Dessau Zoo, visitors can discover animals, plants, and remarkable buildings in the park. There is also a petting area with Harz goats.

Other destinations at a glance include Mildensee, Kochstedt, and Roßlau.

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