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…
The spa park, which dates from 1906, underwent major rejuvenation work 100 years after its creation and has now been given a new look. The elongated stretch of park which had developed and matured down the years was linked sensitively to the changed sections and a curved “ribbon of gardens” was created as an effective…
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…
The spectacular gardens at Arley have been voted amongst the best in Europe. These award winning Grade II* listed grounds cover over 7ha. The present gardens were heavily influenced by Rowland and Mary Egerton-Warberton in the mid-nineteenth century, although there have been some alterations since. One of the highlights of the gardens is The Ilex…
Schloss Anholt (Anholt Castle) is one of the largest moated castles in Westphalia and is located in the westernmost part of the Münsterland, near the German-Dutch border. The history of the park and grounds at Schloss Anholt can be traced back to the 16th century. The Baroque gardens were created around 1705 while in the…
Aerwinkel Castle was built in 1854 by Dutch architect Pierre Cuijpers on commission from Pierre Geradts. The romantic, neo-Gothic castle lies at the heart of a beautiful English landscape garden – probably also designed by Cuijpers – between the town of Posterholt and the village of ‘t Reutje. The garden borders on a wood called…