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1990 |
/ 91 The Dessau Wörlitz cultural landscape work group is founded within
the Industrial Garden Realm Association |
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1990 |
- 95 The conflict of business versus historical monument is dealt with in relation to
the historical Garden Realm Vockerode is the main site of the conflict after the closure of the industrial enterprises there (power station, greenhouses) The goal is set to preserve the historical gardens and industrial monuments (power station) |
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1996 |
The Forum is founded at the Vockerode power station; the Charter adopted |
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1997 |
/ 98 A concept for specific areas is worked out (plan for developing the
area of the historical Garden Realm) |
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1999 |
The first elements of the concept are realized |
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from the landscape
of the enlightenment
to a modern reform region
The Dessau Wörlitz Garden Realm is one of the most important monuments to a responsible
manner of dealing with a region.
Some two hundred years ago, Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau realized
his vision of a society based on a prospering economy, inspired by the spirit of the
Enlightenment and the notions of social security, humanism and peace.
The interplay of
landscape gardening and architecture with a comprehensive economic, educational and social
reform in accordance with the idea of »linking the beautiful with the useful« has seldom
been so consistently striven for by a state as it was here. And nowhere has it been realized
on such as scale as in Anhalt-Dessau at the time of Prince Franz.
Developments during the last ten years had often been characterized by conflicts between
people involved in protecting historical monuments and those engaged in promoting economic
development.
The adoption of a Charter by the Forum Dessau Wörlitz Garden Realm as a body representing
communities, institutions, businesses and citizens marks a turning
point in the recent
history of the Garden Realm: Attention has since turned to finding the qualitatively best
solution.
Proceeding on this basis, the Dessau Wörlitz Garden Realm can once again become a model,
200 years after it came into being, for a future-oriented society with a holistic
orientation.
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