 Aerial view of Oranienbaum | ||
| Oranienbaum | ||
| federal state | Saxony-Anhalt | |
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| Residents | 2.931 (2014) | |
| height | 64 m | |
| Tourist info web | http://www.oranienbaum.de/tourismus | |
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The small town Oranienbaum is a district of the city of Oranienbaum-Wörlitz and is located in the district of Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt. The main attraction is the castle with a park in the style of the Dutch Baroque.
background
The village founded in the 12th century Nischwitz came in the 17th century to the princess Henriette Katharina von Oranien, who was married to the Dessau prince Johann Georg II. She had the place redesigned into a representative baroque ensemble with palace, park and town. The central axis of the castle continues both into the park and into the town across the square market square.
Henriette Katharina promoted, as did her sister Louise Henriette, who had married the Great Elector in Brandenburg and Oranienburg built, handicrafts and trade, which allowed the place to flourish economically. About a hundred years under Prince Leopold III. the strict baroque park was expanded with English landscape garden elements and small buildings in the Chinese style.
Oranienbaum was connected to the railway network in the 19th century. In the forests bordering to the west, an extensive military training area was built and, from 1935, an army ammunition facility and a factory for explosives, in which the self-firing systems for the GDR border were later manufactured. The site is now an industrial park.
getting there
By plane
By train
From the end of March to the beginning of October, the Dessau-Wörlitzer Railway runs from Dessau Central Station via Waldersee, Mildensee, Kapen to Oranienbaum and on to Worlitz. Trains run every two hours (Timetable). The journey time is approx. 25 minutes for the 14 km long route. The 1 Oranienbaum station lies on the western edge of the village. It is a 15-minute walk to the castle / park.
The closest DB train stations are Dessau central station or. Graefenhainichen.
By bus
Regional transport buses from Wittenberg depart from Dessau via Mildensee to Oranienbaum - the departure of the buses is at the bus station in Dessau, directly at the main station (bus platform 4 - Timetable (pdf)). In addition to the courses in the timetable, so-called On-call buses at least one hour before departure 08000-366910 be ordered. In Oranienbaum there are bus stops at 2 Oranienbaum bus station.
Tour buses usually stop at the parking lot at the bus station.
By bicycle
The European cycle route R1 happens the place.
In the street
Oranienbaum is on federal highway 107 between Coswig and Graefenhainichen. The city can be said about the Motorway A 9 at the departure Dessau East and reach the B 107.
mobility
Oranienbaum is compact and can easily be explored on foot.
Parking is available on the market square and on Leopoldstrasse opposite the palace gardens.
Tourist Attractions
Churches, synagogues, temples
- 1 Evangelical town church, Kirchstrasse 30b. Tel.: 49 (0)34904-20512, Email: [email protected].
Baroque church, built under Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau 1704-1712.Open: from Easter to October Sun 1 p.m. - 4 p.m., church service Sun 10 a.m.
- 2 Catholic Church of Christ the King, Feldgasse 4. Tel.: 49 (0)340-87019305, Email: [email protected]. Open: Church service Sun 10.30 a.m.
- 3 Little church, Little Church 1. Erected for the Lutherans in 1752, converted into a residential building in 1920.
Castles
- 4 Oranienbaum Castle. Tel.: 49 (0)34904-20259, Email: [email protected]. The baroque one belonging to the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm Oranienbaum Castle With many Chinese style elements, it was built as a summer residence for Princess Henriette-Catharina von Anhalt-Dessau from 1683 based on designs by the Dutch architect Cornelis Ryckwaert. Here Henriette-Catharina could indulge her passion for collecting Chinese and Delft porcelain. The castle consists of the central main house with two side wings. The right wing houses the leather wallpaper room, which served as a porcelain cabinet. The hall dates back to 1690. Its wallpapers are one of the few surviving of their kind. The leather wallpapers are made of sheepskin or calfskin, which has been silver-plated and embossed on the motif of the picture.Open: May 1 to October 2, Tue-Sun 10 am-5pm.Price: 6 €.
- The castle includes an orangery, the park with a pagoda and the Chinese garden with a tea house ("Chinese house"). In the orangery there is a carriage exhibition and a café, adjoining it is a garden with citrus plants. The pagoda and tea house are accessible as part of guided tours.
city
- The Downtown in the Dutch architectural style with the 5 historic market square with its wrought-iron orange tree, the symbol of the city. From here a monument path leads to 29 monuments in the city center.
activities
To go biking
- The Garden Kingdom Tour enables you to get to know the entire empire of Prince Franz.
shop
- 1 John's Eck, Schlossstrasse 16. Small market. So closed.
- 2 NETTO supermarket, Wittenberger Strasse 27. Tel.: (0)800-2000015. So closed.
- 3 PENNY supermarket, Schlossstrasse 78. Tel.: (0)221-20199959. So closed.
kitchen
- 1 Ponzki butcher shop, Leopoldstrasse 10c. Tel.: (0)34904-20227. Excellent snack. So closed.
- 2 Butcher Ziemer, Schlossstrasse 61. Tel.: (0)34904-22292. Branch of the butcher's shop in Graefenhainichen with a snack. So closed.
- 3 Butcher shop judge, Brandhorst, Long Row 14a. Tel.: (0)34904-21229. With a snack. So closed.
- 4 Nitz Bakery, Försterstrasse 39. Tel.: (0)34904-20267. Long-established bakery with a stand-up snack. Sun, Mon closed.
- Restaurant in the hotel Golden Pheasant (see hotel)
nightlife
accommodation
- 1 Hotel Golden Pheasant, Dessauer Strasse 42. Tel.: 49 (0)34904 3030, Fax: (0)34904 30344, Email: [email protected]. Price: Prices: single room 59 to 64 €.
health
- 1 Gutenberg pharmacy, Mittelstrasse 23, 06785 Oranienbaum-Wörlitz. Tel.: 49 34904 20337, Fax: 49 34904 21847. Open: Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Practical advice
- 2 City information, Schloßstraße 17, 06785 Oranienbaum-Wörlitz. Tel.: 49 34904 22520, Fax: 49 34904 22521.
- 4 Sparkasse Wittenberg, Brauerstrasse 1. Tel.: 49 34904 21186. The branch has an ATM.
- 5 Volksbank Dessau, Schlossstrasse 10. Tel.: 49 34904 20282. The branch has an ATM.
- 6 Q1 gas station, Dessauer Strasse 47. Tel.: 49 34904 30705. Petrol (E5, E10), diesel, propane bottles, car wash. The petrol station has an ATM.Open: Open all day.
trips
- Worlitz (6 km north) - counts like Oranienbaum to the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm; Wörlitzer See and neo-Gothic St. Petri Church.
- Coswig north of the Elbe, to be reached with the Gierseilfähre.
- Graefenhainichen (10 km south, B 107) - the Ferropolis industrial museum is located near Graefenhainichen.
- Dessau (13 km to the west, B 107) - the nearest large city; Bauhaus.
- Lutherstadt Wittenberg (25 km northeast) - the city of the Reformation; located on the right bank of the Elbe.
- Bitterfeld-Wolfen once the dirtiest city in Europe with a remarkable change.
Due to the convenient location to the motorway are also Leipzig, Potsdam and Berlin not much more than an hour's drive away.
literature
- Hans-Joachim Böttcher: Quiet and full of austere beauty ... Palaces and their gardens in the Düben Heath, Bad Düben 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020880-5 , Oranienbaum - pp. 221-236.
- Local association Oranienbaum of the Kulturbund Dessau-Wörlitz e.V .: Oranienbaum - portrait of a small town, Oranienbaum-Wörlitz 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034541-8 , 288 pages
- Hansjörg Küster, Ansgar Hoppe: The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz, C. H. Beck Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-40-659859-3 , 224 pages
