Blooming baroque
The gardens around the residential palace in Ludwigsburg in Baden-Württemberg are known as the Blooming Baroque .
Description of the plant
The Ludwigsburg Palace is surrounded on three sides by gardens with a total area of 30 hectares.
location
Flower beds in front of the castle
lock
Castle facade
South garden
The south side forms the main entrance area of the entire garden: A wide access path is interrupted by a round lake. To the left and right there are gardens in the French Baroque style .
location
Broderie in the south garden
North garden
In the north garden towards Schloss Favorite there are various terraces and a baroque broderie around a basin with a central fountain. There are also aviaries with exotic birds .
Upper east garden
The English-style east garden consists of two parts. In the upper part is the Schüsselesee, around which historical play facilities such as carousel , swings, shuttle swings and bowling alleys are set up. An ancient aqueduct , a Mediterranean vineyard and a kangaroo house with an enclosure were also built there. A memorial was erected here at the beginning of the 20th century to the Ludwigsburg theologian David Friedrich Strauss . The Sardinian garden is a 150 × 30 meter large free-flight aviary with typical Mediterranean plants. Flower shows and art exhibitions take place in the orangery . The 30 meter long Posilippo tunnel was created in 1801 as a stairless connection to the lower orchard.
Bowl lake
Lower east garden
The lower east garden is dominated by the medieval style Emichsburg . Around a large lawn there is the Valley of the Birdsong , the astilbe and the rhododendron garden , with the labyrinth a maze and the largest preserved ice cellar in a palace complex in southern Germany.
location
old gardener's house
Lawn
View of the Emichsburg
Fairytale garden
The fairy tale garden has also been located in the east garden since 1959, in which over 40 fairy tale scenes are shown. The fairy tale garden was founded in 1959 on the initiative of Albert Schöchle , who happened to get to know the Dutch fairy tale garden near Tilburg in 1957 on a trip to buy animals . Since Schöchle was currently looking for a new attraction for the park, he took up the suggestion with enthusiasm, but did not count on how difficult it would be to convince the members of the supervisory board in Ludwigsburg of the project.
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Entrance to the fairy tale garden
Storyteller
Fairy tale river
The first nine attractions of the fairy tale park were:
- Hansel and Gretel
- The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
- Cinderella
- the talking parrot
- Stick out of the sack
- Only little people are lucky here
- Mushrooms with fairy tale songs
- Gold donkey
- Mother Hulda
All these attractions are still almost unchanged today. Today (2006) over 40 fairy tale scenes are presented.
Stone dragon
At the upper entrance to the fairy tale garden there is a stone dragon that constantly calls out "Please paper" . If you throw a scrap of paper into his throat, he says clearly: " Thank you !"
Giant Goliath
The giant Goliath is particularly popular with children , who appears larger than life when he knocks on the gate of his castle and grumbles the following threat:
I'm the giant Goliath
and I'm sick of your knocking now.
If you don't
let go of the noise, I'll lock you up in the castle here.
There you stay as quiet as a mouse,
because I want to sleep again now.
Immediately next to the castle of the giant Goliath is a plaque on which reference is made to the poem The story of Goliath and David in rhymes by Matthias Claudius. Here is the first stanza:
Was once a giant Goliath
Gar a dangerous man!
He had wefts on his hat
With a clunk on it,
And a skirt by Drap d'argent
And everything so advenant.
Rapunzel Tower
The tower of the Emichsburg was rededicated as the tower on which Rapunzel was imprisoned. The children are asked to shout loudly “Rapunzel let down your braid”, then a strong rope with a “hair bow” descends from above.
history
When the Ludwigsburg Palace was built under Duke Eberhard Ludwig from 1704, gardens were created north and south of the palace, which were expanded and redesigned under Duke Carl Eugen . The east garden was created from 1797 under Duke Friedrich II. In 1828 the gardens were opened to the people under King Wilhelm I and used for agriculture.
On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the palace and city of Ludwigsburg in 1954, the facilities were completely redesigned by Albert Schöchle from 1953 onwards , partly in a historical form, partly in a freely modeled form. The opening under the name "Blooming Baroque" took place on April 23, 1954 with an anniversary garden show. This was very successful, hundreds of thousands of visitors came, including Federal President Theodor Heuss was a guest. Most of the redesign could even be financed with the income. So it was decided to run the Blooming Baroque as a permanent garden show. The fairy tale garden was created in 1959, the large broderie on the north side in 1961.
Others
The television program green stuff , which was broadcast weekly on SWR until 2018 , was recorded on the grounds of the Blooming Baroque.
Regular events
Once a year there is a fireworks display with music on the grounds of the Blooming Baroque. In addition, “ the world's largest pumpkin exhibition ” will be a guest on the grounds of the Blooming Baroque in autumn . The street music festival at Pentecost and the “Magic Lights” in summer also take place in the Blooming Baroque .
literature
- Margarete Walliser: The private gardens of the Ludwigsburg Palace. An archaeological investigation that is not an everyday occurrence . In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 16th year 1987, issue 4, pp. 191–196. ( PDF )
Web links
- blueba.de - Official website of the Blooming Baroque
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 11 ′ 53 ″ E