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,…
The historical spa park was extended on the occasion of the Regional Garden Show in 2006 to include a new area with a varied range of activities for relaxation and recreation, entertainment, games and sport. In addition, the old park was connected to two restored stream valleys so that a link was made to the…
The park consists of the Volkspark and the 3-hectare Botanical Gardens. The Volkspark was created by F. W. Schoedder of Iserlohn in the style of an English landscape garden from 1909 – 1914. Typical features include broad curved paths, rising and falling ground, groups of trees as backdrops, and lines of sight. A special feature…
Visitors standing at the main entrance to the Botanic Garden have an attractive view of the half-timbered house and the backdrop formed by the beech wood behind it. The large flowerbed at the entrance was originally planted with roses, but has been used since the garden’s beginning to present a changing variety of plants and…
Bad Salzuflen is one of the leading spas with salt and thermal springs. Covering an area of approximately 126 hectares, the spa and landscape park is one of the largest of its kind. The centre of the town is the old Salzhof, where water was heated to extract the valuable salt as far back as…
The large landscape park covers an area of 7.5 hectares and was created in 1851 at the Neues Palais (now the Academy of Music) of the princely House of Lippe. The park emerged from the redesign of what was originally a 2.4 hectare Baroque garden surrounded by a high wall in the style of a…
Visitors to the “Garden of Remembrance” are shown the former uses of this part of the inner harbour. The remains of post-war buildings are used as look-out towers or as stages for events. The transformation of the remains of the buildings into integral elements of the park is symbolised in particular by the planting of…
The spa park was created as a horseshoe-shaped landscape park between 1851 and 1853 on the basis of plans by Peter Josef Lenné, the most important garden architect of his time. Although the park was extended at various times, the basic structure still remains today. Visitors encounter features in the park which bear witness to…
Located to the south of the towns of Herten and Recklinghausen, Emscherbruch landscape park is a new 750-hectare area for leisure and recreation which has been developed on the Emscher river in a partially wooded landscape excessively shaped by industry and mining . The main component in the park is the Hoheward slag heap, which…