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Hovestadt Castle Park

Gardens, Germany, Münsterland, NRWBy Maren Hoffmann-Stolz 24. May 2016

Schloss Hovestadt (Hovestadt Castle) is located at a horseshoe bend of the river Lippe in the southern Münsterland. The Renaissance castle can be traced back to the 13th century and is today the seat of the Counts of Plettenberg. The grounds were restored in the 1990s on the basis of an historical plan from the…

Nordsternpark Gelsenkirchen

Contemporary Gardens, European Themes, Gardens, Germany, NRW, RuhrgebietBy Maren Hoffmann-Stolz 24. May 2016

Nordsternpark, which evolved from the Federal Garden Show in Gelsenkirchen in 1997, presents post-industrial garden design in the spirit of the International Architecture Exhibition Emscher Park (IBA) in a landscape park on the disused terrain of a former colliery and on old industrial land. The history of the area – the history of Nordstern colliery…