The park around Schloss Drachenburg, which stands approximately 150 metres above the Rhine valley, features terraces, a pleasure ground, a sloping meadow and a wood, making it a peaceful counterpoint to the stylistic variety of the castle’s architecture. The park was created in 1884 as a zoned landscape park and is regarded as a classic…
Nature meets technology and an idyll is supplemented by the art of engineering – that’s the best way to describe the cultural landscape park created under the famous Müngsten bridge in 2006. A broad set of steps and sloped areas of grass in the traffic-free valley along the Wupper river are an invitation to visitors…
The ensemble of buildings at Schloss Benrath still presents itself today as a Gesamtkunstwerk, just as Nicolas de Pigage planned it to be in 1755. The palace, park and water features complement each other and form common points of reference. Thus, the palace rooms have corresponding garden areas, e.g. the mirror pool corresponds to the…
The Barmer Verschönerungsverein (“Barmen Enhancement Association”), which was founded in 1864, was the initiator of the Barmen Parklands and remains responsible for them today. Located on the slope of the southern Barmen hills, the Parklands are regarded as the second largest citizens’ park in Germany and consist of the Upper and Lower Parks, the Ringeltal,…
One of the first public parks in Europe to be initiated by the general public rather than by princes was created in an unusual location in 1807, on Lousberg hill. Located high above the Dreiländereck, the area where three countries meet today, the park offers a sweeping view of the town of Aachen and the…
Schloss Augustusburg and Schloss Falkenlust in Brühl together form a Gesamtkunstwerk which combines architecture, sculpture, painting and garden design. The ensemble is an example of a completely preserved 18th-century prince’s residence and has been recognised as a UNESCO cultural world heritage site since 1984. The Baroque garden dating from 1728 has survived almost intact to…