On tour through Dessau-Rosslau
From the classic city tour to the search after Walter Gropius, we offer diverse opportunities to discover the history of the city of Dessau-Roßlau.
Book your public guided tour directly on site, by phone or via mail and get to know the secrets of Saxony-Anhalt’s third regional center in person for once.
Please note that the public guided tours are held in German.
All year
- Saturday 11.00 a. m.
Additionaly from March to October
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday 5.00 p. m. *
- Easter Monday, 1st of May, Ascension day, Whitmonday, Reformation day 11.00 a. m.
New Year’s Eve 11.00 a. m.
* no Friday tour, when there are special thematic tours at the same time.
per person 10 € / reduced 8 €
approx. 90 minutes
Tourist-Information Dessau, Ratsgasse 11
City tour downtown
Discover the changeful history of the city on a tour. Dessau-Rosslau has a history of eight hundred years, offers four times World Heritage and is a place where the lives of many famous people crossed.
The tour shows how the Bauhaus came to Dessau, what the city has to do with the Basic Law and why some of its children are better known abroad than in their birthplace. The tour brings urban spaces to life and gives contemporary witnesses from a wide variety of epochs a chance to speak, in order to unite the city of Father Franz and Erdmannsdorff, Moses Mendelssohn and Kurt Weill, Max and Wilhelm Müller, Junkers, Gropius, Kandinsky and many others into a picture full of contrasts.
January – October each Monday at 11.00 a. m.
November – December each Thursday 4.00 p. m.
There is no ascent on public holidays.
per person 4 € / 2 € reduced price
approx. 45 minutes
Tourist Information Dessau
Town Hall Tower Ascent
Not a guided tour as such, but you will be accompanied to the highest building in the city, the 73 m high Rathaus tower.
From there, enjoy the view of the city and the floodplain landscape of the Mulde River.
27.09., 28.09., 11.10., 25.10., 08.11., 22.11.
2.00 p. m. each
Per person 12 € / 8 € reduced
approx. 90 minutes
Master’s houses Klee/Kandinsky
Ebertallee 69-71, 06846 Dessau-Roßlau
Walking on the traces of Paul Klee
The Bauhaus master went for a walk almost every day. Especially in the Georgengarten. For him, going for a walk meant observing the air, the weather, the play of colours in the parks, trees, meadows, lakes and buildings and enjoying their atmosphere, which he then captured in his paintings.
Follow in Paul Klee’s footsteps on this guided walk.
17.01., 21.02., 21.03., 18.04., 21.11., 19.12.
8.00 p. m. each
per person 10 €
approx. 80 minutes
Marienkirche (St. Mary’s church), Tower entrance, Schloßstr. 3, 06844 Dessau-Roßlau
Night Guards Tour
Follow one of the poorly paid guardians of order and security on his tour of the city and learn about the part of Dessau’s history that takes place in secret: Assassination and forbidden pleasures, secret love affairs and devilishly strange apparitions.
28.11., 05.12., 12.12., 19.12.
5.00 p. m. each
per person 12 €
approx. 70 minutes
Restaurant Am Georgengarten, Heinz-Röttger-Str. 16, 06846 Dessau-Roßlau
A Christmas Journey through Europe
Inspired by Prince Franz’s Grand Tour, you will take a walk through the Georgengarten on a journey through Christmas Europe. Franz and his princely tour group were on the road for two and a half years, during which time they visited Italy, France, Holland and England.
After their return, the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Kingdom was created, in which Prince Franz and his brother Johann Georg recreated their travel impressions in order to offer the common people the possibility of an educational journey through Europe. During a walk through the Garden Kingdom, they were thus able to get to know the buildings, living conditions and customs of other countries.
So you can travel to seven countries in seventy minutes, hear familiar and unfamiliar stories about their Christmas traditions, and learn the origins of many a custom.
