Broderie
Broderie (from the French word broderie = " embroidery ") is a term used in Baroque garden art . It originated in France around 1600 and was used until around 1770, its heyday was in the Baroque. One can distinguish between several development phases.
It is an ornamentation of low-cut shrub hedges , especially box hedges . The motifs are mainly foliage and banding , less often monograms and figurative representations.
The ornaments were filled with colored materials (gravel, chippings, broken bricks, broken glass, coal, etc.), more rarely with flowers. In this way, a long-distance effect of the ornaments was achieved, which could also be clearly seen from the rooms in the Bel Etage of the castle.
The broderieparterre was the most valuable form of the parterre in French gardening . Models were the magnificent gardens laid out by André Le Nôtre such as the one in Vaux-le-Vicomte (1656–1661) or the Parterre du Midi in Versailles . Due to the triumph of the landscape garden , no baroque broderies have been preserved in their entirety in the original. In Germany, for example, the broderies of Augustusburg Castle in Brühl (Rhineland) (around 1730) or Schwetzingen Castle (1753–1758) were reconstructed.
Many restored broderies are increasingly threatened by fungi and insects, primarily the box tree moth .
literature
- Clemens Alexander Wimmer : The Broderie of the Gardens. In: Baroque reports. No. 46/47, 2007, ISSN 1029-3205 , pp. 61-78.