Blind garden

Entrance to the blind garden in Knoops Park

Start of the circular route in the Bremer Blindengarten

A garden for the blind is a garden that should enable the blind and / or visually impaired to deal independently with plants and other garden elements.

In gardens for the blind there are a particularly large number of plants with a pronounced fragrance ( scented plants ) and an interesting leaf surface structure or flower shape.

Gardens for the blind have site plans in relief that enable orientation in the facility. The beds and borders are raised so that, on the one hand, the route is easy to feel and , on the other hand, the plants are at a height that makes it easier to feel and smell . Information boards in Braille are also part of the equipment. In addition to living plants, sawn-out wood and bark as well as stones and minerals are often offered for palpation. The ground on which the visitor moves can also be varied, for example with gravel or bark mulch. Tactile sculptures with different surface structures, often also water features (at the same time background noise and tactile experience) as well as sound bodies are further possible components.

Some gardens for the blind are also wheelchair-accessible in order to provide access for people with multiple physical disabilities.

Probably the world's first blind garden was built in Exeter in 1939 . There have been gardens for the blind in Germany since the 1960s.

Germany

The first blind garden in Germany, which arose from a private initiative in 1989, is located in Knoops Park in Bremen (location: ⊙ ). It is freely accessible, is considered a nationwide unique concept and has already been the subject of numerous diploma and research projects.

Gardens for the blind in Germany (selection)

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

• Blindengarten Bremen eV Blindengarten-bremen.de
• “Fragrance and Touch Garden” in Bad Kissingen , Bavaria
• Blind garden in the " Park of the Gardens " in Bad Zwischenahn , Lower Saxony
• Blind garden in the Rheinaue leisure park , Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia
• Blind garden in the Arboretum Ellerhoop-Thiensen , Schleswig-Holstein
• Blind garden of the Weihenstephaner Gardens in Freising , Bavaria
• Blind garden of the German Medical History Museum in Ingolstadt, Bavaria
• Blind garden in the botanical garden in Klein Flottbek , Hamburg
• Blind garden of the Folklore Open-Air Museum Speckenbüttel , in Lehe, Bremen
• Fragrance and touch garden in the Friedenspark in Leipzig, Saxony
• Blind garden in Ebertpark , Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate
• Blind garden in the Botanical Garden Giessen , Hesse
• Garden for the blind in Harburg City Park , Hamburg
• Blindengarten St. Odilia in the Schlosspark Kleinheubach , Bavaria
• Blind garden in the rose garden of the municipal tree nursery Bischweiler in Munich , Bavaria (location: ⊙ )
• Botanical garden for the blind in Radeberg , Saxony (Location: ⊙ )

Austria

Austria's first blind garden was laid out in 1959 in Wertheimsteinpark in Vienna . It went back to models in Brighton and Edinburgh . It is no longer used as a garden for the blind and is rarely used; The wall lizard has found a refuge in the earlier beds. It is therefore to be converted into a nature reserve garden.

See also

• Field of experience for developing the senses

Web links

Commons : Parks for the Visually Impaired  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Information about gardens for the blind
• Blindengarten Bremen e. V.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sign in the Blindengarten Wertheimsteinpark 1190 Vienna 2014-09 . In: Flickr . ( flickr.com [accessed June 24, 2018]).