13 Facts About Dessau

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Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany at the confluence of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt.

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Dessau is situated on a floodplain where the Mulde flows into the Elbe.

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Dessau is surrounded by numerous parks and palaces that make it one of the greenest towns in Germany.

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4.

Dessau became the capital of this state within the Holy Roman Empire.

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5.

Dessau is famous as the second site of the Bauhaus school.

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Dessau was the birthplace of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, and Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, a lauded field marshal for the Kingdom of Prussia.

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7.

In January 2005, Dessau gained notoriety for the mysterious death of a Sierra Leonean convicted drug trafficker and failed asylum seeker Oury Jalloh.

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8.

Dessau Hauptbahnhof has connections to Magdeburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Halle, Bitterfeld and Lutherstadt Wittenberg.

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9.

Dessau was part of the InterCity long-distance network until the year 2002.

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10.

Airfield of Dessau is situated northwest of the town between the districts Kleinkuhnau, Alten and Siedlung.

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11.

Dessau is located in the flat landscape of the Saxon Lowland.

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12.

The "Schultheiss" of Dessau changed nearly every year until the town council constitution was cancelled in 1832.

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13.

Dessau is the successor of Klemens Koschig was born on 1957, independent, and who was elected in 2007 with 56.

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