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 4 new work
 5 piesteritz
 6 travel network
 7 the river mulde
 8 planning workshop
 9 bitterfeld cultural palace
10 dessau wörlitz garden realm forum
11 drehberg
12 school of garden art
13 post mining landscape
14 zschornewitz
15 path of industrial change
16 ferropolis
Travel Network
In the brown-coal pit





 


1990
Activity day for the Industrial Garden Realm. Scenic events are organized between the gardens and the Bauhaus
 
 


1991
Publication of the travel guide »Vom Bauhaus nach Bitterfeld«
 
 


1993
A conference is held for a »Center for Central German Industrial History« and the development of cultural tourism
 
 


1994
A concept is made for a decentralized museum and educational center - »A Journey to the Origins of Modern Life«
 
 


1996
A conference is held on »Chances and Roads for Future Cultural Tourism«
 
 


1997
Walks are organized through the mines
Inclusion in the state program for independent regional development
The »travel network agency« opens with its seat in Wittenberg (Industrial Garden Realm Association)
 
 


1998
Publication of the second revised and extended edition of the travel guide »Vom Bauhaus nach Bitterfeld«
 
 


1999
Regular »special interest« tourist program is offered, including town walks: Wittenberg/Bitterfeld/Dessau-City of the Bauhaus
Day excursions: »Ash Lake«-a mining landscape/excursions lasting several days/»A Journey to the Origins of Modern Life«/»Traveling to Utopia«
 
 
 
 

»My garden is beautiful for me because it celebrates a place that will soon be lost.«

the culture of traveling - filling in »blanks« on the map
When work started on the Industrial Garden Realm, the Bauhaus staff were themselves travelers. The precondition for imparting the fascination of this region as an area for design, as a landscape of extremes and the imagination, was the constant willingness of the participants to explore and discover.

In 1996, work started on establishing the Travel Network so as to make the Industrial Garden Realm accessible to a broad section of the public. The objective was for an intelligent, sensuous form of cultural tourism so as to foster an exchange between the regions and sustained independent regional development. The »travel network agency« was opened in cooperation with the Industrial Garden Realm Association in the Cranach Hof in Wittenberg in 1997.
 
tours
 
The »Salon of the Socialists«: Sites of hope and the reality of socialism, between Bitterfeld Cultural Palace and everyday culture in a land that no longer exists; food for thought about social alternatives
 
Dessau Wörlitz Garden Realm: Land of the applied Enlightenment of the 18th century and its present profusion of forms, chasms, and new designs
 

A Journey to the Origins of Modern Life: From the birthplace of industry in Central Germany and one of its key figures, Walther Rathenau, several paths lead to key locations of Central German industrial culture, from Dessau (Junkers, engineering and aircraft company) to Leuna (petrochemicals plants)
 
Land of the Imagination: From Ferropolis to Ash Lake to the summit - Golpa II outer tip
 
Dessau : The City of World Cultural Heritage: In search of the Center and the Periphery
 
Wittenberg: Renaissance and Reformation - sources of a regional urban culture and the seat of the travel network agency


project management:
Burghard Duhm
partners / external management:
Verein Industrielles Gartenreich e.V.
Städte und Landkreise der Region
Europäisches Netzwerk "Kultur der Arbeit"
Roland Günter, Kulturhistoriker; Oberhausen
Background Tours; CH
 
 

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