Germany - Gardenlust In Saxony-Anhalt (97/151)

Germany - Gardenlust In Saxony-Anhalt (97/151)

The federal state of Saxony-Anhalt is a real garden paradise. The exact number of gardens and parks is unknown, but it is estimated at about a thousand. Most impressive of all are the English-style landscape gardens from the 18th and 19th centuries. This "gardenlust", unusual at that time in German territories, owes its origin to a very special enthusiast, Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau. He gave himself the largest and most beautiful garden: Wörlitz Park and its Garden Realm, now a World Heritage Site. In this environment a further 39 gardens are to be found, together with their cloisters, castles and manor houses - all restored in the years after the Fall of the Wall and now, after renovation, resplendent in the appearance of their respective times of origin - from the Middle Ages via the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Classicism, Historicism up to the post-industrial landscape parks that were also created after Reunification on the old brown-coal fields around Bitterfeld and Halle.