Dessau

Dessau, now Dessau-Roßlau, has a population of 68,000 and is the third largest city in the region of . Dessau is historically the capital of the Principality of Anhalt.
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  • Type: Town with 67,300 residents
  • Description: city in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; since 2007 district of Dessau-Roßlau
  • Also known as: “Dessau-Roßlau”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bauhaus Museum Dessau and Dessau Hauptbahnhof.

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.

Railway station
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is the main passenger station in the city of in the German state of .

Public building
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The is a princely palace in Dessau, 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bauhaus Dessau.

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.

Dessau

Latitude
51.831° or 51° 49′ 52″ north
Longitude
12.2431° or 12° 14′ 35″ east
Population
67,300
Elevation
63 metres (207 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DE DES
Open location code
9F3JR6JV+96
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240061254
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
2937959
Wiki­data ID
Q487070
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Dessau” goes by many names.
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  • Arabic: “ديساو”
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  • Chinese: “德紹”
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  • French: “Dessau-Roßlau”
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  • Georgian: “დესაუ”
  • German: “Dessau-Roßlau”
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  • Gothic: “𐌳𐌰𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌰𐍅”
  • Greek: “Ντεσάου”
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  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dessau-Roßlau”
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  • Ukrainian: “Дессау”
  • Urdu: “ڈیساؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Dessau-Rosslau”
  • Uzbek: “Dessau-Roßlau”
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  • Uzbek: “Дессау-Роßлау”
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