Dessau-Roßlau

Dessau-Roßlau is a kreisfreie Stadt in the German state of . It is situated at the confluence of the rivers and . The town was formed by merging the towns of and as part of the 2007 regional boundary reform of Saxony-Anhalt.
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  • Type: County with 75,000 residents
  • Description: city with a double name in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (since 2007)
  • Also known as: “15001000”, “Dessau-Rosslau”, and “Stadt Dessau-Roßlau”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Georgium and Dessau Hauptbahnhof.

Public building
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The is a princely palace in , Germany. It was built for Johann Georg von Anhalt-Dessau, younger brother of Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau. It now houses the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie art gallery.

Railway station
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is the main passenger station in the city of Dessau-Roßlau in the German state of .

Zoo
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The is a municipally owned zoo in , which was founded in 1958. It is located in a park that surrounds the former mausoleum of the Dukes of Anhalt.

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 Dessau-Roßlau and a quarter of it.

Neighborhood
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, also Bauhaus-Building Dessau, is a building-complex in Dessau-Roßlau. 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.

Dessau-Roßlau

Latitude
51.8621° or 51° 51′ 44″ north
Longitude
12.2405° or 12° 14′ 26″ east
Population
75,000
Elevation
62 metres (203 feet)
Inception
July 1st, 2007
Open location code
9F3JV66R+R6
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
7602604
Wiki­data ID
Q3828
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Dessau-Roßlau” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Arabic: “دساو روسلاو”
  • Aragonese: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Armenian: “Դեսսաու-Ռոսլաու”
  • Arpitan: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Asturian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Bashkir: “Дессау”
  • Basque: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Bavarian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Belarusian: “Дэсаў-Расьляў”
  • Belarusian: “Дэсау-Рослау”
  • Belarusian: “Дэсаў-Росьляў”
  • Bosnian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Breton: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Bulgarian: “Десау-Рослау”
  • Catalan: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Cebuano: “Dessau-Roßlau (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Chinese: “德绍-罗斯劳”
  • Corsican: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Croatian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Czech: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Danish: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Dutch: “Dessau-Rosslau”
  • Dutch: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Esperanto: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Estonian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Finnish: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • French: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Friulian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Galician: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • German: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Greek: “Ντέσαου-Ρόσλαου”
  • Hebrew: “דסאו-רוסלאו”
  • Hindi: “डेसाउ-रॉस्लाउ”
  • Hungarian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Icelandic: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Ido: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Indonesian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Interlingua: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Interlingue: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Irish: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Italian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Japanese: “デッサウ＝ロスラウ”
  • Kongo: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Korean: “데사우-로슬라우”
  • Korean: “데사우로슬라우”
  • Kotava: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Kurdish: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Ladin: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Ligurian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Limburgan: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Lithuanian: “Desau-Roslau”
  • Low German: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Luxembourgish: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Macedonian: “Десау-Рослау”
  • Malagasy: “Dessau-Rosslau”
  • Malagasy: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Malay: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Minangkabau: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Moksha: “Дэссау-Росслау”
  • Narom: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Neapolitan: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dessau-Rosslau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Norwegian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Persian: “دسائو-روسلائو”
  • Persian: “دسوا-رسلا”
  • Picard: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Piemontese: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Polish: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Portuguese: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Romanian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Romansh: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Russian: “Дессау-Рослау”
  • Sardinian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Scots: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Serbian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Serbian: “Десау-Рослау”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Sicilian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Silesian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Slovak: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Slovenian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دسوا-رسلا”
  • Spanish: “Dessau-Rosslau”
  • Spanish: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Swahili: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Swedish: “Dessau-Rosslau”
  • Swiss German: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Tatar: “Дессау-Рослау”
  • Tumbuka: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Turkish: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Ukrainian: “Дессау-Росслау”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Venetian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Vietnamese: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Vlaams: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Volapük: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Walloon: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Welsh: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Western Frisian: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈوساؤ-روسلاؤ”
  • Wolof: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • Zulu: “Dessau-Roßlau”
  • “Dessau-Roßlau”

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