Located on the Rivers Elbe and Mulde, the “double city” of Dessau-Roßlau is the third-largest city in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt (population 90,000).
Tucked away among the forests and pasture landscape along the River Elbe, Dessau-Roßlau offers a wealth of cultural and leisure activities, an exemplary infrastructure, a well-structured education network and, above all, space for economic development.
The University of Applied Sciences in Saxony-Anhalt with branches in Dessau-Roßlau, Köthen and Bernburg offers courses in business and real estate management, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, bio sciences and processing technology, landscaping, computer science, architecture, facility management, design and surveying. Moreover, it is now possible to study at Bauhaus once again as part of an international and multi-disciplinary course of lectures (“Bauhaus-Kolleg”). The biggest vocational training centre in Saxony-Anhalt complements the range of modern education and training opportunities in Dessau-Roßlau.
Dessau is particularly famous for the Dessau-Wörlitz Gardens and the famous Bauhaus school with its Master Houses. Both sites were declared World Heritage sites by the UNESCO. This fascinating setting is complemented by the unique cultural landscape of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Mittelelbe. Built in 1926 to designs by Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus, an institute of design and research, as well as academy, workshop and art collection was a major centre of European architecture and spatial planning. Because of its favourable location by motorway A 9 between the metropolitan regions of Berlin and Leipzig/Halle, its proximity to the Intercontinental Airport Leipzig/Halle and the Elbe riverport at Roßlau, Dessau-Roßlau has become part of the growth region of Central Germany. |
