Wasserschloss Raesfeld (Raesfeld Moated Castle) and the extensive woodlands of its deer park are popular for outings among visitors from the Westmünsterland region and beyond. The Tiergarten was originally created for hunting parties of the nobility and as a “living larder”. Today, it offers visitors the opportunity to go walking in the woods and to observe nature in a…
Wasserschloss Nordkirchen (Nordkirchen Palace) is regarded as the most significant grand Baroque palace and estate in Westphalia. It is not without reason that the moated ensemble dating from the early 18th century is frequently referred to as the “Westphalian Versailles”. Both the palace and the outstanding park were created according to plans by Johann Conrad…
Rising up to a height of 95 metres above the Wupper river, the Hardt landscape lies between Elberfeld and Barmen, two parts of the town of Wuppertal. Visitors can enjoy beautiful views of the Hardt landscape and the densely populated townscape from all areas of the Hardt itself. The urban landscape is almost completely surrounded…
The first view of the garden: mighty oaks surrounded by smaller shrubs and bushes at the end of a path covered in grass and mosses; a distant lake beyond, shimmering blue, grey or silver, depending on the angle of the light; to the fore, a ton-weight steel sculpture with a narrow passage cut diagonally into…
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, 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…
Friedestrom Park, which has been newly laid out within the walls of the old castle of Zons and around Zons museum, makes numerous references to the museum collections in its conscious selection of particular plants and trees. In front of the museum entrance, trimmed cushions shaped from plants form a space surrounded by golden rain…
The Flora-Park was designed by Peter Joseph Lenné in 1864 in a “mixed German garden style”. It contains elements of style from the French Baroque, the Italian Renaissance and English landscape gardens. The centre of the park today remains the glass palace (orangery), an architectural structure of cast iron and glass which was particularly noteworthy…
Two silk manufacturers from Krefeld – Dr. Josef Esters and Hermann Lange – com-missioned Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with the design of neighbouring houses and gardens at the end of the 1920s. The gardens were conceived in relation to their effect on the buildings but it is un-clear whether Mies van der Rohe personally…
Visitors to the Grugapark can relax in the green spaces, discover interesting information in the exhibition gardens and glasshouses, and also enjoy an attractive recreational and cultural programme. Three generations of Essen’s population have experienced the Grugapark as a place for brilliant displays of flowers, Sunday outings, concerts, play and fun, firework displays and festivals,…
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