Dessau
Dessau, now Dessau-Roßlau, has a population of 68,000 and is the third largest city in the Saxony-Anhalt region of Germany. Dessau is historically the capital of the Principality of Anhalt.
- Type: Town with 67,300 residents
- Description: city in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; since 2007 district of Dessau-Roßlau
- Also known as: “Dessau-Rosslau”, “Dessau-Roßlau”, “Дессау-Роßлау”, and “Дессау-Рослау”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Bauhaus Museum Dessau and Dessau Hauptbahnhof.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bauhaus Dessau.
Bauhaus Dessau
Neighborhood
Bauhaus Dessau, also Bauhaus-Building Dessau, is a building-complex in Dessau-Roßlau.
Dessau
- Categories: Ortsteil, municipality in Germany, former municipality, and locality
- Location: Dessau-Roßlau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.831° or 51° 49′ 52″ north
Longitude
12.2431° or 12° 14′ 35″ east
Population
67,300
Elevation
63 metres (207 feet)
UN/LOCODE
DE DES
Open location code
9F3JR6JV+96
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Dessau” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Dessau”
- Arabic: “ديساو”
- Aragonese: “Dessau”
- Armenian: “Դեսսաու”
- Arpitan: “Dessau”
- Asturian: “Dessau”
- Azerbaijani: “Dessau”
- Basque: “Dessau”
- Bavarian: “Dessau”
- Belarusian: “Дэсау”
- Bosnian: “Dessau”
- Breton: “Dessau”
- Bulgarian: “Десау”
- Catalan: “Dessau”
- Cebuano: “Dessau”
- Central Kurdish: “دێساو”
- Chechen: “Дессау”
- Chinese: “德紹”
- Chinese: “德绍”
- Corsican: “Dessau”
- Croatian: “Dessau”
- Czech: “Desava”
- Czech: “Dessau”
- Danish: “Dessau”
- Dutch: “Dessau”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ديساو”
- Esperanto: “Dessau”
- Estonian: “Dessau”
- Finnish: “Dessau”
- French: “Dessau-Roßlau”
- French: “Dessau”
- Friulian: “Dessau”
- Galician: “Dessau”
- Georgian: “დესაუ”
- German: “Dessau-Roßlau”
- German: “Dessau”
- Gothic: “𐌳𐌰𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌰𐍅”
- Greek: “Ντεσάου”
- Greek: “Ντέσαου”
- Hebrew: “דסאו”
- Hungarian: “Dessau”
- Icelandic: “Dessau”
- Ido: “Dessau”
- Indonesian: “Dessau”
- Interlingua: “Dessau”
- Interlingue: “Dessau”
- Irish: “Dessau”
- Italian: “Dessau”
- Japanese: “デッサウ”
- Javanese: “Dessau”
- Jèrriais: “Dessau”
- Kazakh: “Dessaw”
- Kazakh: “Дессау”
- Kazakh: “دەسساۋ”
- Kirghiz: “Дессау”
- Kongo: “Dessau”
- Korean: “데사우”
- Ladin: “Dessau”
- Latin: “Dessavia”
- Latvian: “Desava”
- Ligurian: “Dessau”
- Limburgan: “Dessau”
- Lithuanian: “Desau”
- Low German: “Dessau”
- Luxembourgish: “Dessau”
- Macedonian: “Десау”
- Malagasy: “Dessau”
- Malay: “Dessau”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dessau”
- Minangkabau: “Dessau”
- Neapolitan: “Dessau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dessau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dessau-Roßlau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dessau”
- Norwegian: “Dessau”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Dessau”
- Persian: “دسائو”
- Picard: “Dessau”
- Piemontese: “Dessau”
- Polish: “Dessau”
- Portuguese: “Dessau”
- Romanian: “Dessau”
- Romansh: “Dessau”
- Russian: “Дессау”
- Sardinian: “Dessau”
- Scots: “Dessau”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dessau”
- Serbian: “Desau”
- Serbian: “Десау”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dessau”
- Sicilian: “Dessau”
- Slovak: “Dessau”
- Slovenian: “Dessau”
- Spanish: “Dessau”
- Swahili: “Dessau”
- Swedish: “Dessau”
- Swiss German: “Dessau”
- Tatar: “Дессау”
- Turkish: “Dessau”
- Ukrainian: “Дессау”
- Urdu: “ڈیساؤ”
- Uzbek: “Dessau-Roßlau”
- Venetian: “Dessau”
- Vietnamese: “Dessau”
- Vlaams: “Dessau”
- Volapük: “Dessau”
- Walloon: “Dessau”
- Welsh: “Dessau”
- Western Frisian: “Dessau”
- Wolof: “Dessau”
- Wu Chinese: “德绍”
- Yue Chinese: “德紹”
- Zulu: “Dessau”
- “Dessau”
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