• Wörlitzer Park, Venustempel
  • Wörlitzer Park, Hornzackenbrücke
  • Wörlitzer Park, Weiße Brücke
  • Wörlitzer Park, Balzender Pfau

Wörlitz

An impressive English-style landscaped park

„Here is now infinitely beautiful. […] The bushes are in their most beautiful youth, and the whole has the purest loveliness...”, wrote Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1778 about the then new Wörlitz Park. To this day, guests of the unique landscape park are as enthusiastic as the prince of poets.

  • Wörlitzer Park, Balzender Pfau
  • Biosphärenreservat Mittelelbe
History

The earliest of its kind

After a trip to England, Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau began to reshape his principality in 1765 and to a certain extent created his own England there. The Wörlitzer Park is the start and highlight of this project. It is the first English landscape park to be created on the European mainland – and to this day it is a true masterpiece of garden art!

Wörlitz Park combines the prince’s intentions to beautify his country, to educate his people and to combine the useful with the beautiful. What does that mean? Stay tuned!

Highlights

World and time travel in miniature

The first neoclassical palace and the first neo-Gothic building in Germany, Europe’s only artificial volcano, a stone labyrinth, 17 different bridges, numerous temples, grottos and caves, islands, ancient sculptures, special plants and constantly new surprising visual axes – Wörlitz Park has all kinds of great things to offer. What you should not miss with such an abundance of attractions:

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      Guided tours for groups

      You are welcome to book group tours in Wörlitzer Park with us. And we also have very special themed tours ready for your group trip: How about a literary walk in the footsteps of the great poet Goethe?

      Group tour Wörlitz Park

      Duration: 2 hours (recommended)
      Package price up to 15 people: € 105.00
      Each additional person: € 7.00
      Reduced: € 3.00
      (plus € 1.00 per person ferry crossing)

      Duration: 1 hour (castle garden only)
      Package price up to 15 people: € 75.00
      Each additional person: € 5.00
      Reduced: € 2.00

      Themed tours

      Depending on the area of interest of your travel group, our special themed tours could be suitable for you. Browse through the offers that we have lovingly put together for you.

      To the list of themed tours and day programs for groups

      Foreign languages

      Guided tours in English and French are also available by prior arrangement.

      Inquiry

      You can find out more at the Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz Tourist Information in the kitchen building at Wörlitz Palace, on +49 (0) 3 49 05.3 10 09 or via the contact form:

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        Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz

        Touristinformation

        in the kitchen building at Wörlitz Palace
        Kirchgasse 35, D-06785 Oranienbaum-Wörlitz
        Phone +49 (0) 3 49 05.3 10 09
        info@welterbe-gartenreich.de
        www.welterbe-gartenreich.de

        Opening hours 2025

        January to March 21, November, December:
        Monday to Friday 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

        22. March to October 31:
        Monday to Thursday, Sunday 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
        Friday and Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.