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Bad Muskau – UNESCO World Heritage Site

July 21, 2014

Muskau Park spans the border between Germany and Poland. One of the few UNESCO World Heritage sites in two countries, it was created by Hermann, Prince of Pückler-Muskau, in the early 1800s.

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Fürst Pückler Park
Fürst Pückler Park

The landscape park made Bad Muskau, a small town in Upper Lusatia, world famous. Hermann, Prince of Pückler-Muskau, began to have the park laid out as an English garden in 1815. After World War II, the park was cut in two by the new German-Polish border. In 1989, a contract on cross-border cooperation was signed, with both countries agreeing to maintain park. The Polish and German sections of the park are now linked by a new double bridge.

Bad Muskau – UNESCO World Heritage Site