Nestled in Saxony-Anholt, Dessau is most famous for its design school, the Bauhaus. Formerly located in Weimar, the school was moved to a new and innovative building designed by its director Walter Gropius. The school operated in Dessau from 1925 to 1932, when the Nazi-led city council forced its move once again to Berlin under a new Director, Mies Van Der Rohe. The school met its demise there one year later. Yet, during that short span, the Bauhaus was the nexus of modern visual art. Its prolific production in the fields of painting, sculpture, photography, dance, graphic design, industrial design, weaving and the highest of all arts, architecture was without equal. Its legacy is still evident in the extant Gropius-designed buildings, a reborn school of design, and the foundation courses of nearly every design school around the world. The polymath Oskar Schlemmer designed the Bauhaus emblem in 1922 and is the central feature of this mannloch. The manhole covers in formerly East German Dessau are devoid of a central illustration and are instead filled in with asphalt. Here, the emblem along with the name of the city writ in Herbert Bayer’s 1925 Bauhaus typography brings to fruition what should be in Dessau. Hopefully, the current city council will cast this design soon.