Hereditary Prince Garden
The Erbprinzengarten is a park in the center of Karlsruhe . It was a private park of the urban aristocratic society, which was built in the immediate vicinity of Karlsruhe Palace .
history
The first plans for a park on the area of what was then the Erprinzengarten go back to the idea of Margrave Karl Wilhelm von Baden-Durlach in 1730 to build a park in the style of an English garden . Shortly afterwards, the construction of the first park began.
In 1788, Hereditary Prince Ludwig decided to extensively redesign the gardens and entrusted the planning to the garden inspector Friedrich Schweickardt to transform the area into a larger pleasure garden . The entire area was fenced in with a ha-ha . The park area was not open to the public at the time.
From 1856 onwards there were considerations to build a new exhibition building for the collections of the margravial-Baden court in the area of the Hereditary Prince Garden. Between the years 1866 and 1872, the architect Josef Berckmüller opened the new natural history cabinet, today's State Museum of Natural History . The Hereditary Prince Garden was dissolved by the now centrally located museum. The Nymphengarten was built on the northern part of the site by 1891 , and Friedrichsplatz was founded in the southern part . Since then, both areas have been freely accessible to the public. The Erbprinzenstrasse , which runs diagonally in front of the Natural History Museum, is reminiscent of the original park.
building
Originally on the site of Prince garden were of for Karl Ludwig of Baden built Gothic tower and also from Weinbrenner Friedrich designed Amalie castle for Countess Amalie . The Karlsruhe observatory was also located in the Hereditary Prince Garden until it was moved to the Königsstuhl near Heidelberg .
literature
- Bernhard J. Lattner, Roland Feitenhansl: Silent contemporary witnesses. 900 years of Karlsruhe architecture. Edition Lattner, 2007.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 28.3 " N , 8 ° 24 ′ 3" E