UNESCO sites

Muskau Park has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2004, and this is largely thanks to Hermann Fürst von Pückler (1785-1871). He created this masterpiece along the Neisse, which is now considered a classic landscape garden. As the founder of modern landscape design, he shaped not only Europe but also America. His principles are still relevant today, as his well-known textbook "Annotations on Landscape Gardening" from 1834 shows. This recognition of cross-border management honors the care of Pückler's cultural heritage.  

The Muskau fold extends like a horseshoe across the triangle of Brandenburg - Saxony - Poland. Mostly in Germany (Brandenburg and Saxony), part of it is in the Polish Lubuskie Voivodeship.

It is an impressive compressional moraine from the Ice Age, one of the most important examples of large-scale glacial-tectonic deformation. The name “Muskauer Fold Arch” was introduced in 1928 by geologists at the Prussian Geological State Institute.

The UNESCO biosphere reserve “Upper Lusatian Heath and Pond Landscape” extends to the east of the Free State of Saxony and includes the largest contiguous pond area in Germany. It is embedded in a historically grown cultural landscape with a remarkably rich natural environment and plays an outstanding role in nature and species protection. The centuries-long tradition of pond farming has left behind a large number of ponds that are still used today primarily for carp farming.