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3. Authenticity:
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3. Justification for Inscription
Few 19th-century alterations, no
war damage – after an interlude of neglect
and the start of restoration work in 1983
Wörlitz is stunning in its authenticity.
Summary
Comparison with the Schwetzingen summer
residence is possible only within limits as
the entire estate is laid out in the landscaped
style, and as a part of this overall concept
the summer residence itself takes a different
architectural form. The garden is larger by
far than the Schwetzingen palace garden,
and furnished with a larger number of
architectural features.
Bibliography
Exhibition catalog: Franz von Anhalt-Dessau. Fürst der
Aufklärung 1740-1817. Belehren und nützlich seyn. Wörlitz
1990.
Gerd Biegel: Wörlitz, ein Garten der Aufklärung.
Braunschweig 1992.
Exhibition catalog: Das Gartenreich an Elbe und Mulde (ed.
by. Thomas Weiß). Murnau 1994.
Das Schloss und seine Ausstattung als denkmalpflegerische
Aufgabe: eine Tagung des Deutschen Nationalkomitees
von ICOMOS und des Facharbeitskreises Schlösser und
Gärten in Deutschland Wörlitz, 5.-8. Oktober 1994 (Hefte
des Deutschen Nationalkomitees/ICOMOS XVI). München
1995.
Exhibition catalog: Weltbild Wörlitz: Entwurf einer
Kulturlandschaft (ed. by Frank-Andreas Bechtholdt).
Ostfildern-Ruit 1996.
Exhibition catalog: Unendlich schön. Das Gartenreich
Dessau-Wörlitz (ed. by Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz).
Berlin 2005.
Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz (ed.): Der Vulkan im
Wörlitzer Park. Berlin 2005.
Michael Rüffer: Das Schloss in Wörlitz: ein fürstliches
Landhaus im Spannungsfeld zwischen Absolutismus und
Aufklärung (Forschungen zum Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz,
2). München 2005.
Exhibition catalog: Louise Fürstin von Anhalt-Dessau
(1750-1811) (Kataloge und Schriften der Kulturstiftung
Dessau-Wörlitz, 28). München 2008.
Palace and Palace Garden of Pillnitz
Basic Facts
Location: Germany, state of Saxony, city of
Dresden
Historical outline: A manor first mentioned
1403; c.1600 Renaissance palace with a
modest pleasure garden; 1694 purchased
by Elector Augustus the Strong; from 1706
the property of his mistress, Countess Anna
von Cosel, who had the “Charmillen” (hedge
rooms) laid out in 1712-1713; 1718 Elector
Augustus retrieves the property, large-scale
building planned but only realised in parts;
1720 construction of the “Wasserpalais”
(Water Palace) by Johann Daniel Pöppelmann,
1722-1723 construction of “Bergpalais” (Hill
Palace), with a Baroque parterre separating
the two palaces; 1723-1725 laying out of the
great palace garden and planting of a chestnut
avenue to mark the main axis, from 1765 a
paille-maille course; laying out of a garden
for games; 1774 conversion of the Carousel
House into an orangery; estate is designated
the summer residence of the Wettin dynasty
by Elector Friedrich August III (1750-1827);
from 1778 laying out of the “English Garden”
in an anglo-chinese style with a collection
of North American trees; 1781 construction
of “English Pavilion”; from 1781 laying out
of the “Friedrichsgrund” (outside the park)
as a sentimental landscape garden; 1785
laying out of the “Dutch Garden”; laying out
of “Chinese Garden” with a Chinese Pavilion
(1804); 1818 the old Renaissance palace burns
down, and afterwards the New Palace is
built; 1866 planting of the “Lilac Court” (with
Chinese lilac); large-scale botanical collecting