Dessau-Törten Estate
Siedlung Dessau-Törten
A workers' housing experiment designed by Gropius, featuring a consumer cooperative building and gallery-access apartments. Part of the Bauhaus World Heritage Site.
The Törten Estate was built between 1926 and 1928. Gropius used it to test prefabricated components and assembly-line construction, and more than 300 terraced houses were built. The five gallery-access apartment buildings (Laubenganghäuser) designed by Hannes Meyer are also part of the World Heritage Site. The consumer cooperative building in the center has a visitor information point and a small exhibition, and the Anton House shows a restored interior. Most houses are still lived in, so please do not enter private courtyards. It is about a 15-minute bus ride from the city center.
Opening hours
Residences viewable from outside all day; exhibition space Tue–Sun 10:00–17:00
Nearby sights
- Bauhaus Museum Dessau
- Bauhaus Building Dessau
- Georgium
- Masters' Houses
- Hugo Junkers Technical Museum
- Luisium
- Kornhaus Dessau
- Großkühnau Park