Bad Muskau

Muskau Park
UNESCO-World Heritage since 2004

Muskauer Park is an exceptional example of a landscape park. The park was laid out between 1815 and 1845 to plans drawn up by Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau, a landscape gardener, prince and travel writer. Subsequent owners continued to develop and substantially extend the park in accordance with von Pückler's original plans.

The grounds of the park are either side of the River Neisse, straddling the German-Polish border. The park covers an area of approximately 830 hectares. Its defining features include its spacious layout, broad vistas, varying intensities of landscape design and artificial watercourses.

On a stroll through the park, visitors experience a constantly alternating, three-dimensional scene that has been hewn out of the natural landscape. Intensive, combined efforts by conservationists in Germany and Poland in recent years have resulted in a more holistic, cross-border approach to the continuing restoration of the park.

Route Suggestion
From Dresden to Bad Muskau