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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 67,300 residents
- Description: city in Saxony-Anhalt, since 2007 district of Dessau-Roßlau
- Also known as: “Dessau-Roßlau”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bauhaus Museum Dessau and Dessau Hauptbahnhof.
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Museum
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The Bauhaus Museum Dessau 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.
Dessau Hauptbahnhof
Railway station
Dessau Hauptbahnhof is the main passenger station in the city of Dessau-Roßlau in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Georgium
Public building
The Georgium 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.
Bauhaus Dessau
Neighborhood
Bauhaus Dessau, 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
- Categories: Ortsteil, municipality in Germany, and locality
- Location: Dessau-Roßlau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.831° or 51° 49′ 52″ northLongitude
12.2431° or 12° 14′ 35″ eastPopulation
67,300Elevation
63 metres (207 feet)United Nations Location Code
DE DESOpen location code
9F3JR6JV+96OpenStreetMap ID
node 240061254OpenStreetMap 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”
- Chechen: “Дессау”
- Chinese: “Dessau”
- Chinese: “德紹”
- Chinese: “德绍”
- Corsican: “Dessau”
- Croatian: “Dessau”
- Czech: “Desava”
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- 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”
- Kazakh: “Dessaw”
- Kazakh: “Дессау”
- Kazakh: “دەسساۋ”
- Kirghiz: “Дессау”
- Kongo: “Dessau”
- Korean: “데사우”
- Ladin: “Dessau”
- Latin: “Dessavia”
- Latvian: “Desava”
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- Limburgan: “Dessau”
- Lithuanian: “Desau”
- Lithuanian: “Dessau”
- Low German: “Dessau”
- Luxembourgish: “Dessau”
- Macedonian: “Десау”
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- Malay: “Dessau”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dessau”
- Minangkabau: “Dessau”
- Narom: “Dessau”
- Neapolitan: “Dessau”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dessau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dessau-Roßlau”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dessau”
- Norwegian: “Dessau”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Dessau”
- Persian: “دسائو”
- Picard: “Dessau”
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- Polish: “Dessau”
- Portuguese: “Dessau”
- Romanian: “Dessau”
- Romansh: “Dessau”
- Russian: “Дессау-Рослау”
- Russian: “Дессау”
- Sardinian: “Dessau”
- Scots: “Dessau”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dessau”
- Serbian: “Desau”
- Serbian: “Десау”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dessau”
- Sicilian: “Dessau”
- Slovak: “Dessau”
- Slovenian: “Dessau”
- Spanish: “Dessau”
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- Swedish: “Dessau”
- Swiss German: “Dessau”
- Tatar: “Дессау”
- Turkish: “Dessau”
- Ukrainian: “Дессау”
- Uzbek: “Dessau-Rosslau”
- Uzbek: “Dessau-Roßlau”
- Uzbek: “Dessau”
- Uzbek: “Дессау-Роßлау”
- Uzbek: “Дессау”
- Venetian: “Dessau”
- Vietnamese: “Dessau”
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- Western Frisian: “Dessau”
- Wolof: “Dessau”
- Wu Chinese: “德绍”
- Yue Chinese: “德紹”
- Zulu: “Dessau”
- “Dessau”
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