Enea Tree Museum

Enea Tree Museum, Rapperswil-Jona

The Enea Tree Museum is a 75,000 m² park near Lake Zurich in Rapperswil-Jona , Canton St. Gallen . In the tree museum you can see over 50 trees from over 25 species as well as sculptures by international artists.

history

The tree museum, founded in 2010, was planned and built by landscape architect Enzo Enea. The property on Zurich Obersee was leased from the Cistercian Abbey of Mariazell-Wurmsbach Monastery . Before construction began, water had to be withdrawn from the former wetland . For this purpose an avenue of bald cypress trees was set up. This type of tree naturally removes a lot of water from the soil ( evapotranspiration ). Today this avenue forms the entrance to the tree museum. The museum has been open to the public since it opened.

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  Driveway

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  Reception building and café

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  Orangery

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  The main building in the background

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  In the park

Trees

The trees growing in the tree museum should have been felled, but were saved by Enea and replanted in the tree museum. The tree population includes the following specimens:

Japanese maple ( Acer palmatum ) Ironwood tree (Parrotia posica) Japanese larch corkscrew (Larix kaempferi 'Diana') Japanese clove cherry ( Prunus serrulata ) Japanese umbrella fir (Sciadopitys verticillata) Flower ash (Fraxinus ornus) Forest pine ( Pinus sylvestris ) Japanese yew ( Taxus cuspitata ) Rhododendron hybrid (Rhododendron Catawbiense hybrid) California sequoia ( Sequoiadendron giganteum ) Trumpet Tree ( Catalpa bignonioides ) Cultivated plum ( Prunus domestica ) Mussel cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Nana Gracilis') Plane tree ( Platanus x hispanica )

Gray shrub juniper (Juniperus media 'Hetzii') Tulip magnolia ( Magnolia x soulangeana ) Japanese black pine ( Pinus thunbergii ) Elegantissima elm (Ulmus minor 'Jacqueline Hillier') Bald cypress ( Taxodium distichum ) Japanese fire maple (Acer japonicum 'Aconitifolium') Cinnamon maple ( Acer griseum ) Ginkgo tree ( Ginkgo biloba ) Horse chestnut ( Aesculus hippocastanum ) Ironwood tree ( Parrotia persica ) Ornamental apple (Malus toringo sargentii) Red split maple (A. palmatum 'Dissectum Garnet') Maiden Pine ( Pinus parviflora ) Winter linden ( Tilia cordata )

art

Sculptures by international artists can be found in the tree museum. The following works of art are currently curated in the Tree Museum:

3 queens, Risch / Duosch Alpaca, Jürgen Drescher Animello, Sergio Tappa Antenna, Steve Claydon Around Tiger Island, Nigel Hall Berserker II, Stalla Hamberg Bird, Cristian Andersen Dew of Moon, Masatoshi Izumi Fiora, Richard Erdmann Fiora - Working Model, Richard Erdmann Fiore, Manolo Valdés Inselbuch, Das, Martin Kippenberger Infanta Margarita, Manolo Valdés Lou, Jaume Plensa Meander, James Licini

Mushrooms, Sylvie Fleury Pulpo Otto, Jeremie Crettol Remos Schnauz, Sergio Tappa Relay, Kerim Seiler Pork belly, Olaf Nicolai Sentinel, Richard Erdman Sentinel - Working Model, Richard Erdmann Sentinel, Jaume Plensa Sleeping Mountain, Masatoshi Izumi Snailholesuperlove, Jeremie Crettol Southern Shade V, Nigel Hall Spira, Richard Erdmann Unlimited & Limiters, Steve Claydon Faucet, Risch / Duosch WVZ 147, Elmar Trenkwalder

Web links

Commons : Enea Tree  Museum - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Enea Tree Museum
• Opening report in the New York Times
• Contribution by Arte Metropolis
• Report on welt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Enea Tree Museum. In: City of Rapperswil-Jona. City of Rapperswil-Jona, accessed on September 17, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Bruno Knellwolf, Bruno Knellwolf: Trees as works of art. Retrieved September 17, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Helene Arnet: Old trees in front of the Congress House take off. In: tagesanzeiger.ch. Tamedia AG, accessed on September 17, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 47 ° 13 '24.2 "  N , 8 ° 51' 56.4"  E ; CH1903:  708,078  /  231255