Gesamtkunstwerk Branitz Park and Palace

Located near Cottbus, Branitz Park and Palace is the masterpiece and late creation of the eccentric garden designer Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871). Gently curved earth formations, elegantly shaped lakes and stretches of water and perfectly designed compositions of trees reveal Branitz today to be the pinnacle of landscape gardening development, rightly giving it the…