A Country House by Erdmannsdorff

In 1780 the younger brother of Prince Franz of Anhalt, Johann Georg of Anhalt (1748-1811), engaged Friedrich Wilhelm of Erdmannsdorff as architect for a new country house within the Gartenreich at Wörlitz. He created an English landscape garden in the northern part of Dessau and built some more classical houses as part of the garden plan. The 'Georgium' is one of the most important gardens within the Gartenreich itself!
Johann Georg was a Prussian general and also founder of other parks and notable buildings around Dessau (Georgengarten & Beckerbruch). He never married and had no issue. His brother Leopold III. Friedrich Franz actually wanted him to become heir to Anhalt and enable Franz himself to stay in England with his mistress. Though Johann would have made a splendid Prince, history shows us, that Franz' return home to Dessau wasn't the wrong decision.