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Augustusburg Castle in Bruehl, Germany
The park of Augustusburg Castle in Brühl, which was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List together with the buildings in 1984, represents a monument of garden art of internationally recognized standing. Castles and gardens in Germany emulated its model.
The garden artist Dominique Girard, who had probably received his training in Versailles under André Le Nôtre, designed the Brühl garden parterre from 1728 and summarized his previous findings here, which he had also designed in the gardens of Nymphenburg and Schleißheim as well as the Upper Belvedere in Vienna and ideas according to the strict standards of the theory and practice of French garden art.
The focal point of the Brühl gardens is the large, two-part broderie parterre south of the palace with a round and quatrefoil-shaped fountain basin and adjoining mirror pond. The filigree book ornaments of the decorative beds, which look like embroidery (French broderie), are bordered with rhythmically planted flower borders. The linden avenues bordering the ground floor on the sides lead to triangular hedged quarters, which in turn are designed with round halls, fountains and small salons and were intimate destinations for excursions as early as the 18th century.
From 1842, Peter Joseph Lenné designed the Brühler Park as an English landscape garden for Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, the elements of which still determine the forest area today. Here the picturesque alternation of tree areas and meadow areas dominates the basic mood. Irregularly curved paths and small streams lead to the water areas of the two island ponds.
As a technical sensation of the time, Lenné also included the Cologne-Bonn railway line, opened in 1844, in the garden design and led it directly through the island pond area over a richly decorated iron bridge.
The baroque parterre was restored between 1933 and 1937 based on the original garden plan and is now considered one of the most authentic examples of 18th-century French garden art in Europe.
Augustusburg Castle in Bruehl, Germany
The park of Augustusburg Castle in Brühl, which was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List together with the buildings in 1984, represents a monument of garden art of internationally recognized standing. Castles and gardens in Germany emulated its model.
The garden artist Dominique Girard, who had probably received his training in Versailles under André Le Nôtre, designed the Brühl garden parterre from 1728 and summarized his previous findings here, which he had also designed in the gardens of Nymphenburg and Schleißheim as well as the Upper Belvedere in Vienna and ideas according to the strict standards of the theory and practice of French garden art.
The focal point of the Brühl gardens is the large, two-part broderie parterre south of the palace with a round and quatrefoil-shaped fountain basin and adjoining mirror pond. The filigree book ornaments of the decorative beds, which look like embroidery (French broderie), are bordered with rhythmically planted flower borders. The linden avenues bordering the ground floor on the sides lead to triangular hedged quarters, which in turn are designed with round halls, fountains and small salons and were intimate destinations for excursions as early as the 18th century.
From 1842, Peter Joseph Lenné designed the Brühler Park as an English landscape garden for Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, the elements of which still determine the forest area today. Here the picturesque alternation of tree areas and meadow areas dominates the basic mood. Irregularly curved paths and small streams lead to the water areas of the two island ponds.
As a technical sensation of the time, Lenné also included the Cologne-Bonn railway line, opened in 1844, in the garden design and led it directly through the island pond area over a richly decorated iron bridge.
The baroque parterre was restored between 1933 and 1937 based on the original garden plan and is now considered one of the most authentic examples of 18th-century French garden art in Europe.