Germany Guide
Saxony-Anhalt and the Harz
Park Georgium
The large road junction just east of the Meisterhäuser – where Ebertallee, Gropiusallee and Kornhausstrasse meet – is presided over by some Neoclassical columns that announce the gateway to the Park Georgium, part of a series of parks or Gartenreich in and around Dessau. This and other buildings in the park – which include a number of faux ruins – come across as strange frippery after the austere Modernism of all the Bauhaus designs, particularly the ornate Schloss Georgium from 1780. It now houses the Anhalt Art Gallery, Puschkinallee 100 (Tues– Sun 10am–5pm; €3; 0340/61 38 74), a collection of old masters that includes Rubens, Hals and Cranach. The rest of the park extends north to the banks of the Elbe, a little over 1km away, and includes a Lehrnpark, a low-key zoo and botanic garden with various small native animals and over a hundred different kinds of tree.