Successful meeting of the jury

The international jury for the European Garden Award decided on the winners of the 1st and 2nd prizes among this year’s nominations in a video meeting. Numerous external nominations from the Open Call, which was carried out for the first time, were also taken into account. Winners also resulted from this group. In each of…

In memoriam: Alan Thornley

It is with great sadness that we bid farewell to Alan Thornley, Chairman of the European Garden Heritage Network EGHN, who died far too early and unexpectedly at home in England on 8 October 2020. Alan Thornley had taken over the chairmanship of the European Garden Heritage Network at its first meeting in 2003 and…

Open Call for Nominations

Since 2010 the European Garden Award has been granted to almost 100 parks, gardens and organisations across Europe. Most nominations have been made by the international jury but by several externals too. Corona caused a break and thus the next awards will be handed out in June 2021. We decided to use this extra time…

New EGHN partners in 2020

We are happy to announce that two organisations decided to bring a garden and a garden landscape as new partners into the EGHN. The Merian Gärten (image) in Basel are the first garden to join from Switzerland. Merian Gärten won an European Garden Award (2nd Prize) in 2019, in particular for their high-class programme for…

“European Garden Award” and symposium “Europe’s heritage of gardens and gardening”

Agenda as PDF download here.. SYMPOSIUM: “EUROPE’S HERITAGE OF GARDENS & GARDENING” 6. SEPTEMBER 2019, SCHLOSS DYCK, 41363 JÜCHEN, GERMANY 09:30  Registration 10:00Welcome and Introduction – Jens Spanjer (Board, Schloss Dyck Foundation, European Garden Heritage Network) – Roswitha Arnold (Vice-Chairman EGHN, Rhineland Regional Council – LVR) 10:15The Necessity with the Beauty – New Ways of…

Workshop on Cultural Landscapes

13th May 2019, Schloss Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe Cultural landscapes:  development, appreciation and use of values Workshop of the project AWARDING HERITAGE in the program SHARING HERITAGE Cultural landscapes are creating an identity and reflect our history on the local, regional and European level. At the same time, they are subject to constant change, much…

EGHN Partners start UL2L

The project “UrbanLinks 2 Landscape” supports the Schloss Dyck Foundation, the Regional Association of the Rhineland (LVR) and partners from six countries (Sweden, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Great Britain, Germany) to work on the transition area between the city and the landscape. How can these spaces be designed to be more attractive and useable? How do…