Luisium
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thumb|Schloss Luisium Luisium is a palace and landscape garden in Dessau-Roßlau, Germany. It is a part of Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 1774 work started on a small palace in the style of an English country house, which Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau built for his wife Margravine Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, thus the name Luisium.
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- Instance of
- château
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Dessau-Roßlau
- Elevation
- 63
- Image
- Dessau Luisium.jpg
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- Commons category
- Schloss Luisium
- architect
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff
- heritage designation
- architectural heritage monument
- architectural style
- Classicism
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thumb|Schloss Luisium Luisium is a palace and landscape garden in Dessau-Roßlau, Germany. It is a part of Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 1774 work started on a small palace in the style of an English country house, which Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau built for his wife Margravine Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, thus the name Luisium.
== Garden dreams == Luisium Villa and Park are part of the Saxony-Anhalt Garden Dreams project.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Luisium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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