Day of Industrial Culture Tour 2025
As part of the 15th Saxony-Anhalt Industrial Heritage Day from 10 – 13 April 2025, those interested can embark on an exciting bus tour to the formative places in Dessau-Roßlau.
For the 15th Day of Industrial Heritage in Saxony-Anhalt, the tour will once again visit various sites of industrial development in Dessau. There will be the opportunity to visit selected sites. As in the previous year, three round trips will take place every two hours from the main railway station.
With expert explanations from a tour guide, the route leads to the railcar museum, the former sugar refinery, the Schultheiß brewery, Peter Behrens’ power machine hall on the Polysius site and the technology museum before the tour ends back at the main railway station.
Participants have the option of getting off at individual stops, lingering there and continuing with a later round – or experiencing the entire tour in one go.
Pre-booking not necessary. 11:00 / 13:00 / 15:00 from Hbf Bstg. D
9,- Euro adults, reduced 6,- Euro
All stations can also be visited independently of the special bus tours at the times indicated!
Station 01 – Central Station
Departure from main station (see also special timetable) 11.00 / 13.00 / 15.00
Station 02 – Dessau Railcar Museum
At the Great Hall 11+13 (alighting and re-boarding possible)
– Presentation of the measures to upgrade the Great Hall as an exhibition and storage hall using plans and design drawings
– Special guided tour of the Great Hall including the forge and workshop
– Special guided tour of the vehicle exhibition on the open-air site with demonstration of the railway slewing crane.
Station 03 – Schultheiß Brewery Dessau Elisabethstraße/Brauereistraße (alighting and re-boarding possible, stopping point is in Elisabethstraße at the entrance courtyard to the boiler house and depot)
If you need a break before or after all the exciting impressions and would like to fortify yourself, you are welcome to do so at NEWKID e.V. in front of the depot. The barbecue will be fired up and hot and cold drinks provided.
After a short verbal introduction to the brewery ensemble for the tour drivers, anyone who is more deeply interested can take part in a long tour lasting 75-90 minutes, during which the users of the buildings will introduce themselves and their activities at the relevant location.
Of course, visitors to the Industrial Heritage Day can also enter the brewery independently of the bus tour, also via the entrance from Elisabethstraße.
Special guided tours at a glance approx. 11:45 / 13:45 / 15:45 (bus arrival): Brief information & introductions to the brewery ensemble with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Schmidt, Arch. Dieter Bankert (Brauhaus e.V.) Andre Schlecht-Pese (liquidator)
Starting point: at the Kesselhaus (access Elisabethstraße)
12:00 / 14:00 / 16:00: Tour of the brewery site with presentation of individual parts of the building and users with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Bankert (Brauhaus e.V.) Andre Schlecht-Pese (liquidator) Starting point: at the boiler house
Special guided tour of the ‘Braumeister-Villa’ with owner Axel Baufeld (access Brauereistraße)
Station 04 – Polysius/ZAB site
12.00-12.30 / 14.00-14.30 / 16.00-16.30
Opening of the Peter Behrens power machine hall for the first time
▪Explanations on the history and significance by Dr Axel Schuhmann from Anhalt University of Applied Sciences Dessau
▪Information from the owner about the Gewerbepark Mitte
Supplies and WC can be used at the Schultheiß-Brauerei Dessau site (5 min walk)
Station 05 – Hugo Junkers Technology Museum
The Hugo Junkers Museum of Technology is the end point of the Dessau Industrial Heritage Bus Tour. After each bus tour, our colleagues Mr Lehr and Mr Reinicke give special guided tours for the participants, lasting approx. 30 – 45 minutes. The theme of these special tours is the history of our JU52/3m and the newly rediscovered mural (Junkalor) by Benno Butter and are free of charge for participants