Georgium Castle

The Georgium, alongside Wörlitz Park, is the most art-historically significant landscape park in the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm in the English style. It was created by Prince Johann Georg, the younger brother of Prince Leopold III. Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau, and named after him. Today it is located in the Ziebigk district of Dessau-Roßlau.

From 1780, Prince Johann Georg had a small classical country house built by Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff in a floodplain forest north of the then city of Dessau. The area around the building was transformed into an English-style garden, similar to Wörlitz Park. It also received numerous classical and romanticizing park buildings, sculptures, small architecture, and monuments, which were harmoniously embedded in the landscape and nature.

Among the most important are the so-called Fremdenhaus (Guest House), the Roman Ruin, an Ionic round temple, as well as two replicas of ancient archways and the monument to Prince Franz in ancient attire. The Beckerbruch (97 ha), which adjoins the actual Georgengarten (21.3 ha), was left as a natural floodplain and marsh landscape but was also embellished with small architectural features and monuments. The artfully designed landscape park here harmoniously transitions into the natural landscape. The Elbpavillon (Elbe Pavilion) and Wallwitzburg (artificial ruin) offer a wide view over the garden landscape along the Elbe. The Mausoleum Park, created between 1894 and 1896, borders the complex.