Germany
Saxony-Anhalt
Dessau-Roßlau

Luisium

Luisium is a palace and landscape garden in , . 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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  • Type: Castle
  • Description: château
  • Also known as: “Louisium”
  • Address: Am Luisium 15, 06844
  • Wheelchair access: limited

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St. Bartholomäi-Kirche Jonitz and Bauhaus Museum Dessau.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 1¼ km south of Luisium.

Museum
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The is a museum dedicated to the Bauhaus design movement located in Dessau, Germany. The museum's collection of 49,000 is the second-largest collection of Bauhaus-related objects in the world. is situated 2½ km southwest of Luisium.

Railway station
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is the main passenger station in the city of in the German state of . is situated 3 km southwest of Luisium.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dessau and Roßlau.

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, now Dessau-Roßlau, has a population of 68,000 and is the third largest city in the region of . is historically the capital of the Principality of Anhalt.

Town
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Rosslau was until 30 June 2007 a town in , , belonging to the district Anhalt-Zerbst. After a fusion with the town of it became eponym of the newly founded town of and a quarter of it. is situated 4½ km northwest of Luisium.

Neighborhood
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
, also Bauhaus-Building Dessau, is a building-complex in . It is considered the pinnacle of pre-war modern design in Europe and originated out of the dissolution of the Weimar School and the move by local politicians to reconcile the city's industrial character with its cultural past. is situated 5 km south of Luisium.

Luisium

Latitude
51.85072° or 51° 51′ 3″ north
Longitude
12.27209° or 12° 16′ 20″ east
Elevation
63 metres (207 feet)
Open location code
9F3JV72C+7R
Open­Street­Map ID
way 24767142
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­limited
Geo­Names ID
2875702
Wiki­data ID
Q319110
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Russian—“Luisium” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Louisium”
  • Danish: “Luisium”
  • German: “Luisium”
  • German: “Schloss Luisium”
  • Hungarian: “Luisium”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Luisium”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Schloss Luisium”
  • Norwegian: “Luisium”
  • Polish: “Luisium”
  • Russian: “Замок Луизиум”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Luisium”. Photo: DorisAntony, CC BY-SA 3.0.