"Englischer Garten The Englischer Garten (, ""English Garden"") is a large public park in the centre of Munich, Bavaria, stretching from the city centre to the northeastern city limits. It was created in 1789 by Sir Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814), later Count Rumford (""Reichsgraf von Rumford""), for Prince Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria. Thompson's successors, Reinhard von Werneck (1757–1842) and Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (1750–1823), advisers on the project from its beginning, both extended and improved the park. With an area of (370 ha or 910 acres), the ""Englischer Garten"" is one of world's largest urban public parks. The name refers"
"it was first in the spring of 1792 that the park was officially opened to the approximately 40,000 citizens of Munich. Thompson left Munich in 1798. His successor, Baron von Werneck, attempted to make the garden itself through its agricultural use. To that end he expanded the park in December 1799 to encompass the Hirschau, which was improved to provide pasture. The fields of the military gardens were added to the ""Englischer Garten"" in January 1800. Werneck's improvements had been costly, and in 1804 he was replaced by Sckell, who was given the post of ""Bayerischer Hofgärtenintendant"" (""Bavarian Court Garden"
"parks. The ""Englischer Garten"", close to the city centre and covering an area of is larger than Central Park in New York City, is one of the world's largest urban public parks. It contains a naturist (nudist) area, numerous bicycle and jogging tracks as well as bridle-paths. It is considered the ""green lung"" of Munich and one of the city's best-loved features. It was designed and laid out by Benjamin Thompson, Count of Rumford, for both pleasure and as a work area for the city's vagrants and homeless. Nowadays it is entirely a park, its southern half being dominated by"
"Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg The Botanischer Garten München-Nymphenburg (21.20 hectares) is a botanical garden and arboretum located at Menzinger Str. 65, Munich, Bavaria, Germany. It is open daily, except on 24 and 31 December; an admission fee is charged. Munich's first botanical garden, now called the ""old botanical garden"", was established in 1809 to designs by Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell near Karlsplatz, where its remains are still visible. Today's garden was created in 1914 in the Munich outskirts at Nymphenburg to designs by the garden architect Holfeld. In 1966 it became affiliated with the Botanische Staatssammlung München and the Institute of"
"and a ""Vihearzneyschule"" (veterinary school) for the treatment of cattle diseases. Most of these projects did not long survive the creation of the park, but the veterinary school went on to become what is now the ""Tierärztliche Fakultät"" (Veterinary Faculty) of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The gateway from 1790 can be seen at the ""Veterinärstraße"" entrance to the garden. The park was initially named ""Theodors Park"", but it very quickly became known by the descriptive name of ""the English Garden"". By May, 1790 sufficient progress had been made to allow Charles Theodore to make an inspection tour; but"
"collection, succulents, and primeval plants from Australia and tropical South East Asia. Other features of interest include a bonsai garden, a scenic pond (the ""Margarethensee""), and a Ronald McDonald House designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser in 2005. Botanischer Garten Grugapark The Botanischer Garten Grugapark is a municipal botanical garden located in the Grugapark at Virchowstraße 167a, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is open daily; an admission fee is charged. The garden was established in 1927 for recreation, teaching, and research. Parts of the garden were destroyed in World War II but gradually rebuilt and re-designed for the Essen Bundesgartenschau of 1965."
"Flora und Botanischer Garten Köln The Flora und Botanischer Garten Köln (11.5 hectares) is a municipal formal park and botanical garden located adjacent to Cologne Zoological Garden at Amsterdamer Straße 34, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is open daily without charge. The garden dates to 1863 when a private company was organized to create Flora park (5.5 hectares) as a replacement for the city's older botanical garden near the Cologne Cathedral, which in 1857 was destroyed for construction of the central railway station. This new park was designed by Peter Joseph Lenné in 1864 in a mixed German style, incorporating"
"crypt of the Theatinerkirche in Munich. Despite the mutual dislike and distrust between the Duke and his Bavarian subjects, Charles Theodore left a distinctive mark on the city of Munich: it was during his reign that the ""English Garden"", Munich's largest park, was created, and the city's old fortifications were dismantled to make place for a modern, expanding city. One of Munich's major squares, ""Karlsplatz"", is named after Charles Theodore. Munich natives, however, seldom use that name, calling the square instead ""Stachus"", after the pub """"Beim Stachus"""" that was located there until construction work for Karlsplatz began, mainly because Charles"
"majority, mainly temperate plants, remained in place. Botanical Garden Frankfurt The Botanischer Garten Frankfurt am Main (7 hectares) is a botanical garden and arboretum formerly maintained by the Goethe University and since 2012 administered by the City of Frankfurt. It is located at Siesmayerstraße 72, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and opens daily in the warmer months. First Garden: near the Eschenheimer Tor (1767-1907). Frankfurt's first botanical garden was created in the years 1763-1774 by Johann Christian Senckenberg (1707-1772), and was operated by the Senckenberg Foundation as a ""hortus medicus"" for the cultivation of medicinal herbs for the foundation's public hospital"
"Schwabing Schwabing is a borough in the northern part of Munich, the capital of the German state of Bavaria. It is divided into the city borough 4 (Schwabing-West) and the city borough 12 (Schwabing-Freimann). The main boulevard is Leopoldstraße. ""For further information on the Munich boroughs, see:"" Boroughs of Munich. Schwabing used to be famous as Munich's bohemian quarter and is still popular among tourists and locals, especially young people, for its accumulation of bars, clubs, and restaurants. Another popular location is the ""Englischer Garten"", or English Garden, one of the world's largest public parks. (Other not so commonly known"
"the English Garden for use, a series of hearings and meetings took place between the state of Bavaria and Studentenwerk München. At the beginning of the project, the Max Kade Foundation donated 1,000,000 German marks. There was then an architectural competition in 1960. The resulting winner was Ernst Maria Lang, with the architectural company Lang und Pogadl. After that, about 1,500 living spaces were planned in Studentenstadt, and this count was later raised to 2,500 in 1971. Construction began in 1961, and Studentenstadt was built in four stages. In the first stage, between 1961 and 1963, Houses 1-6 were built."
"Botanical Garden Frankfurt The Botanischer Garten Frankfurt am Main (7 hectares) is a botanical garden and arboretum formerly maintained by the Goethe University and since 2012 administered by the City of Frankfurt. It is located at Siesmayerstraße 72, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and opens daily in the warmer months. First Garden: near the Eschenheimer Tor (1767-1907). Frankfurt's first botanical garden was created in the years 1763-1774 by Johann Christian Senckenberg (1707-1772), and was operated by the Senckenberg Foundation as a ""hortus medicus"" for the cultivation of medicinal herbs for the foundation's public hospital and medical institute. Its site, about 1"
"Alter Botanischer Garten (Munich) Old Botanical garden is located in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The old botanical garden is located on Lenbachplatz in Munich in the district part Königsplatz of Maxvorstadt and is now a park . It is bounded on the south by a straight 360 meter section of the Elisenstraße and on the other sides by the arc shaped Sophienstraße. On the south side, on the opposite side of Elisenstraße lie the grounds of the Palace of Justice and in the northwest The Charles Hotel. The site occupies an area of about four hectares. It was created between"
"French Garden, Celle The French Garden () in Celle, in the German state of Lower Saxony, is a public park in the south of the historic old town or ""Altstadt"". On both sides of a straight avenue of lime trees forming its east–west axis are flowerbeds, lawns, copses and a pond with a fountain. Its current appearance is no longer that of a true French Garden, but rather that of an English Garden. Laid out towards the end of the 17th century as a baroque courtyard and leisure garden by French gardeners, Perronet and Dahuron, the gardens were given their"
"Alter Botanischer Garten Hamburg The Alter Botanischer Garten Hamburg (""Old Botanical Garden Hamburg""), sometimes also known as the Schaugewächshaus or the Tropengewächshäuser, is a botanical garden now consisting primarily of greenhouses in the Planten un Blomen park of Hamburg, Germany. Alter Botanischer Garten is located on the Hamburg Wallring at Stephansplatz and is open daily without charge. The garden is located on the site of Hamburg's old botanical garden at the city wall, established 1821 by Professor Johann Georg Christian Lehmann (1792–1860). Its alpine garden was established in 1903; most plants were subsequently moved to the new Botanischer Garten Hamburg"
"near the Elbe Cycle Route, and the Sieglitzer Berg forest park laid out in 1777. Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, also known as the ""English Grounds of Wörlitz"", is one of the first and largest English parks in Germany and continental Europe. It was created in the late 18th century under the regency of Duke Leopold III of Anhalt-Dessau (1740-1817), returning from a Grand Tour to Italy, the Netherlands, England, France and Switzerland he had undertaken together with his friend architect Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff. Both strongly influenced by the ideals of The Enlightenment, they aimed to overcome"
"also key features of the old town. Further attractions include the Evangelical Church (""Stadtkirche"") with its Roman and Gothic architecture, and the former Latin school (which was attended by the astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler). The old Latin school now houses the town museum and Schelling memorial chapel. The town park contains a variety of modern sculptures. On the eastern outskirts of Leonberg is the Engelberg Tunnel. Leonberg's Pomeranzen Garden (""Pomeranzengarten"") is Germany's only remaining terraced garden. Named after the German word for ""bitter orange"", the garden originally dates back to the height of the Renaissance. It was planted in"
"clumps of trees and outlier groves. The name—not used in the United Kingdom, where ""landscape garden"" serves—differentiates it from the formal baroque design of the garden ""à la française"". One of the best-known English gardens in Europe is the Englischer Garten in Munich. The dominant style was revised in the early 19th century to include more ""gardenesque"" features, including shrubberies with gravelled walks, tree plantations to satisfy botanical curiosity, and, most notably, the return of flowers, in skirts of sweeping planted beds. This is the version of the landscape garden most imitated in Europe in the 19th century. The outer"
"busying himself with English-style gardening. Upon his return, Sckell redesigned the gardens of Schönbusch Park in Aschaffenburg for the Prince-Electors of Mainz and Archbishop Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal in the English style, as well as those of Schöntal Park. Afterwards he was responsible for the beginning of the Schwetzinger Gardens as a scenic park, and along with Benjamin Thompson, was commissioned by Prince Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria in 1789 to begin the Englischer Garten in Munich. In the time following the Englischer Garten, Sckell spent a short time in service of the rulers of Baden, before he was"
"Bunter Garten The Bunter Garten (30 hectares) is a municipal park with botanical garden (5 hectares) and arboretum located along Lettow-Vorbeck Straße, Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is open daily without charge. The park contains three major sections: Kaiserpark, Colorful Garden, and Botanical Garden, including a rock garden, herb garden, and a fragrance garden, as well as the Kaiser-Friedrich-Halle and an aviary of some 200 birds. All told, the park contains about 4000 plant taxa, including 1400 species and varieties of deciduous trees and shrubs, and 800 types of conifers, including 150 types of maples, 60 types of oaks, and"
"Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm The Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, also known as the ""English Grounds of Wörlitz"", is one of the first and largest English parks in Germany and continental Europe. It was created in the late 18th century under the regency of Duke Leopold III of Anhalt-Dessau (1740-1817), returning from a Grand Tour to Italy, the Netherlands, England, France and Switzerland he had undertaken together with his friend architect Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff. Both strongly influenced by the ideals of The Enlightenment, they aimed to overcome the formal garden concept of the Baroque era in favour of a naturalistic landscape as"
"to Bavaria where he became an ""aide-de-camp"" to the Prince-elector Charles Theodore. He spent eleven years in Bavaria, reorganizing the army and establishing workhouses for the poor. He also invented Rumford's Soup, a soup for the poor, and established the cultivation of the potato in Bavaria. He studied methods of cooking, heating, and lighting, including the relative costs and efficiencies of wax candles, tallow candles, and oil lamps. On Prince Charles' behalf he created the Englischer Garten in Munich in 1789; it remains today and is known as one of the largest urban public parks in the world. He was"
"Metrobus line 54, the night bus lines 43 and 44, as well as the bus lines 150 and 154, lead in both directions through the Martiusstraße. Already since the 1990s, a tram line through the Martiusstraße came into discussion and was intended to pass by the Kurfürstenplatz through Martiusstraße into the ""Englischer Garten"" (English garden) at the ""Chinesischer Turm"" (Chinese tower) and would therefore create a northern tangent between Neuhausen and Bogenhausen. The garden tram was to be operated, according to the request of the city of Munich, with batteries in order avoid having overhead lines in the ""Englischer Garten"","
"French troops. Between 1817 and 1821, the area near Ballhausplatz square was converted to gardens originally intended for a private garden for the archdukes. These plans were changed through a proposal by the court garden administration to turn the area into the first public park in the city. On 1 March 1823, the park was officially opened. Starting in 1825, the name ""Volksgarten"" was commonly used. In 1862, the gardens were extended toward Ringstraße after the city moat had been filled in. At the center of the park stands the neoclassical Theseus Temple by Pietro di Nobile, completed in 1821."
"Stadtpark und Botanischer Garten Gütersloh The Stadtpark und Botanischer Garten Gütersloh (15.5 hectares) is a municipal park with botanical garden (3 hectares) located at Parkstraße, Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is a member of the European Garden Heritage Network and open daily without charge. The park was created between 1906 and 1909 to designs by garden architect Friedrich Wilhelm Schoedder (1855-1938), with the botanical garden added to its northeastern corner in 1912. A palm house was constructed in 1938 but destroyed in World War II; it has subsequently been restored and now houses a café. A rose garden was created"
"his honor. Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (13 September 1750, Weilburg – 24 February 1823, Munich) was a German landscape gardener from Weilburg an der Lahn. He is regarded as the founder of the English gardens in Germany, which he introduced to the German experts with his writings on garden design. His manner of grouping and choice of plants is still used to an extent in German landscaping today. Sckell was trained in the Court Market Garden in Schwetzingen near Mannheim and worked after his apprenticeship in Bruchsal, Paris, and Versailles. From 1773 to 1777, he was"
"connection to the Munich Airport, with the airport bus. The Isarring cuts the ""Englischer Garten"" into a southern and a northern part. The ""Initiative M-ein Englischer Garten"", would like to lay the Isarring, at 380 meters, into a tunnel in order to reunite the northern and southern portions of the ""Englischer Garten"". This is to restore the historical shape of the ""Englischer Garten"", as it was before the construction of the Isarings. The ""Englischer Garten"" would then again be a continuous city park with north-south extension of 5 km length. On 28 June 2017, the Munich City Council unanimously approved"
"Botanischer Garten Rombergpark The Botanischer Garten Rombergpark, or informally Rombergpark, is an extensive municipal arboretum and botanical garden located at Am Rombergpark 49b, Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With its total area of 65 hectares the Rombergpark is one of the largest botanical gardens in the world. It is open daily. The garden was established in 1822 as the Romberg family's English landscape park. In 1927-1929 it was acquired by the city and under city planning director Richard Nose enhanced by a small herb garden. The park and castle were badly damaged in World War II, but starting in 1950 director"
"the English style ""Herrngarten"" in central Darmstadt. In former times it was part of the Royal Gardens used exclusively by the dukes of Darmstadt. Today it is a public park, heavily used in every season of the year. Other important parks are the French style parks ""Prinz-Georgs-Garten"" and ""Orangerie"", the modern style ""Bürgerpark"" (""People's Park"") in northern Darmstadt and the mystical ""Park Rosenhöhe"", (""Rose Heights"") which also serves as the cemetery for the dukes, with two impressive mausoleum buildings in its remote parts. The Botanischer Garten in eastern Darmstadt is a botanical garden maintained by the Darmstadt University of Technology"
"Zoological Garden of Hamburg The Zoological Garden of Hamburg (German: ""Zoologischer Garten zu Hamburg"") was a zoo in Hamburg, Germany that operated from 1863 until 1930. Its aquarium, which opened in 1864, was among the first in the world. In the 1850s, Hamburg was the third-largest city in the German Confederation; only Berlin and Vienna were larger. Trading in wild animals had begun in 1820 and a road-house menagerie was in operation in the 1840s. A wealthy merchant named Ernst von Merck, a member of parliament in the German government at Frankfurt am Main in 1848 and 1849, assembled a"
"von Sckell. This, also designed by von Klenze, was erected in 1824, a year after Sckell's death; the design was executed by Ernst von Bandel, who would later be known as the creator of the ""Hermannsdenkmal"". The English Garden is divided into two portions by the busy Isarring road. The southern part is around 2 km long, while the northern part, called the Hirschau, is around 3 km long. In contrast to the southern part, which on sunny days contains as many people as one would find in a medium-sized town, the Hirschau has a peaceful character. In the southern"
"Botanical Garden, Bonn The Botanische Gärten der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (6.5 hectares open to public, 3 hectares private), also known as the Botanischer Garten Bonn, is a botanical garden and arboretum maintained by the University of Bonn. It is located at Meckenheimer Allee 171, Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and open except Saturdays in the warmer months; admission is free on weekdays. The gardens were originally castle grounds for the Archbishop of Cologne, dating to about 1340, which circa 1650 were fashioned into a renaissance garden. In 1720 the site was reworked as a baroque garden, setting the basic structure of today's"
"antiquity, and was a reaction against the Baroque style, in both architecture and landscape design. The English Grounds of Wörlitz is one of the first and largest English parks in Germany. It was created in the late 18th century under the regency of Duke Leopold III of Anhalt-Dessau (1740–1817), after returning from a Grand Tour to Italy, the Netherlands, England, France and Switzerland which he had taken together with his architect friend Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff. Unlike the formal Baroque gardens, it celebrated the naturalistic manner of the English landscape garden, and symbolised the promised freedom of the Enlightenment era."