From Leipzig to Berlin - City Countryside Sea - Germany 2022 - 3
Stage 3 - From Leipzig to Berlin
On the way from Leipzig to Berlin Jürgen has planned one sightseeing: Ferropolis [↗] near Dessau. Here are five of the huge excavators that were previously used for open-pit mining. Unfortunately, we have not checked in advance whether there a festival takes place. And so what has to happen, happens: The whole area is closed off.
No problem, the village of Oranienbaum, where we just drove through, also looked quite nice. We park the car opposite the castle [↗]. You can only get in with a guided tour, but we take a look at the garden and the orangery. Later in the old town, we take a look at a round church. Interesting architecture, but not very photogenic.
There is even a tourist information office and Freya gets some brochures about the surrounding gardens and parks. Oranienbaum is part of the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm [↗], which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000.
Now Freya has tasted blood and forces Jürgen to drive to the park in Wörlitz [↗]. This is an English landscape garden and not at all to Jürgen's taste. There is a castle that is being renovated and can be visited only with a guided tour anyway, an artificial ruin, and a larger lake that we walk around. The fact that the weather isn't exactly great doesn't help either. Freya is annoyed that Jürgen is not enthusiastic, but that's the way it is.
At least we want to have lunch here. The restaurant Grüner Baum has a nice garden, but the food on offer is too hefty for the temperature and humidity. So we go to the beer garden next to the parking lot and have a small bite to eat there.
