Dessau
Dessau-Roßlau holds two UNESCO World Heritage listings: the Bauhaus buildings, which made this Saxony-Anhalt town a landmark of 20th-century architecture and design, and the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, a network of landscape parks and buildings laid out in the late 18th century during the Enlightenment. The town sits at the confluence of the Mulde and Elbe rivers, with the surrounding meadows protected as a biosphere reserve, and was historically the capital of the Principality of Anhalt.
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- Population67,747
- Nearest water from center 0.6 km0.4 mi
- Nearest mountain from center 5.6 km3.5 mi
Nearest airports
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Dessau: quick answers
Where is Dessau?
Dessau is in Germany, about 28 km17 miles in a straight line from Wittenberg.
How do you get to Dessau?
The nearest airport is Schkeuditz (LEJ), about 43 min away by road. The nearest train station is Dessau Hauptbahnhof, about 3 min away by road.
What's the weather like in Dessau?
The warmest month is July, averaging 20°C68°F across day and night; the coolest is January, at 1°C34°F. The wettest month is July, with about 79 mm3.1 in of precipitation. (Monthly averages, 1991–2020.)
What's in Dessau?
OpenStreetMap lists 11 museums, 37 restaurants, 13 cafés and 17 places of worship within 2 km of the centre.
What's near Dessau?
Other Wandering Well picks within 60 km include Aschersleben, Bitterfeld-Wolfen and Merseburg.