100 Euros Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz

The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm in Saxony-Anhalt was the first English-style landscape garden on the European continent, laid out from the 1760s onward by Prince Leopold III Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau, who had toured Britain and returned genuinely convinced that Capability Brown's naturalistic principles could be transplanted to German soil. The estate survived the GDR period in a state of managed neglect and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000, which directly prompted the German commemorative coin program to issue this piece thirteen years later.

Part of Germany's ongoing UNESCO series, struck at one of the five federal mints with a relatively modest issue ceiling typical of the gold denominations in this program.