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Bad Muskau (Sorbian: Mužakow), formerly Muskau, is a small county town in Upper Lusatia, Germany, being the site of the famous Park von Muskau. This article or section should be merged with List of Sorbian languages The Sorbian languages are members of the West Slavic branch of languages spoken in eastern Germany. ... Lusatia (German Lausitz, Upper Sorbian Łužica, Lower Sorbian Łužyca, Polish Łużyce, Czech and Serbian Lužice, sometimes called Sorbia, is historical region between Bóbr-Kwisa rivers and Elbe river in northeastern Germany (states of Saxony and Brandenburg), south-western Poland (voivodship of Lower Silesia and northern... Fürst-Pückler-Park, Bad Muskau The Park von Muskau, officially Fürst-Pückler-Park, in Poland: Park Mużakowski, is the biggest and certainly most famous English-style park of Germany and Poland. ...


It is the birth place of the poet and novellist Leopold Schefer (1784-1862) and the landscape gardener and writer Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871). Leopold Schefer (July 30, 1784 - February 16, 1862), German poet, novelist, and composer, was born at Muskau in Lower Lusatia, and educated at the gymnasium of Bautzen. ... A landscape architect is primarily a designer of spaces, mostly landscapes, and sometimes gardens, in the field of landscape architecture. ... Prince Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau Fürst Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau (en: Prince Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau) (30 October 1785 - 4 February 1871) was a German nobleman, who was an excellent artist in landscape gardening and wrote widely appreciated books, mostly...


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Bad Muskau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (247 words)
Bad Muskau (Sorbian: Mužakow), formerly Muskau, is a small county town in Upper Lusatia, Germany, being the site of the famous Park von Muskau.
Muskau was founded in the 13th century, firstly mentioned 1249.
The earldom (Standesherrschaft) of Muskau was the biggest of the Holy Roman Empire.
Park von Muskau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (367 words)
It covers roughly 545 ha of land on both sides of the Lusatian Neisse river, which constitutes the Polish-German border, the centre being the German town Bad Muskau.
The founder of the park was Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871), the author of the influential Hints on Landscape Gardening and the owner of Bad Muskau since 1811.
As time went by, he established an international school of landscape management in Bad Muskau and outlined the construction of an extensive landscape park which would envelop the town "in a way not done before on such a grand scale".
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