Erbprinzliches Palais Dessau

[3][4] The northern one, which Eugen lived in until his death in 1781, consisted of a two-storey corps de logis with 17 bay windows.

[4] Prince Friedrich Heinrich Eugen von Anhalt-Dessau was most recently governor of the fortified town of Wittenberg in Electoral Saxony.

[5] The palace fell to Eugen's sister Henriette Amalie of Anhalt-Dessau in 1781 by inheritance, who gave it to her nephew, Leopold III.

[4] During this time, the garden behind the palace building consisted of a regular hippodrome-like layout with the "pyramid" at the northern apex gradually expanded beyond the city wall.

[4] The landscaped grounds soon extended to the Kleine Kienheide to today's acacia grove and Tivoliberg, which was then called "Amalienberg" and had a small pavilion.

[4] The well-proportioned building is completed by a high hipped roof and has a gabled central risalit on the south side, which opens into an exedra, which today is impaired by a modern porch.

[4] When the later duke Frederick I. of Anhalt moved into the palace on Kavalierstraße after his marriage in 1854, the house once again became the seat of an hereditary prince.

[7] Between 1884 and 1888 a new palace was constructed in the French Renaissance style based on a design by Hermann Ende and Wilhelm Böckmann from Berlin.