Eulbacher Park

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obelisk
Chapel in the pond
Artificial ruin "Eberhardsburg"
Oil painting of the park, around 1820 ( Christian Kehrer ).
English garden Eulbach

The Eulbacher Park , also known as the Englischer Garten zu Eulbach , is an English landscape park in the eastern urban area of Michelstadt in the Odenwaldkreis . The park is located immediately north of the federal highway 47 in a wooded area between the districts of Vielbrunn and Würzberg , which includes the hamlet of Eulbach , at a height of around 510 meters. The facility is considered the oldest archaeological park in Germany.

investment

Eulbacher Park mainly consists of an English landscape garden of around 400 hectares. The hunting lodge of the Counts of Erbach-Erbach is on the opposite side of Bundesstraße 47 .

In the north and east of the park there are game reserves that house bison and native game. They are the remainder of the Count's game park, which originally covered up to 3000 hectares and was large parts of what is now the districts of Weiten-Gesäß , Würzberg and Ernsbach Gate gates in the park fence made accessible with carts.

history

The Counts of Erbach-Erbach had a hunting lodge built in 1770/71 on the site of the Eulbach desert , a village that had been destroyed in the Thirty Years War. Under Count Franz I. zu Erbach-Erbach (1754–1823) the hunting lodge was expanded into a representative hunting lodge from 1802. At the same time, according to plans by the garden designer Friedrich Ludwig Sckell, the English landscape garden was built to the north of the castle on the other side of the then little-frequented connecting road from Erbach to Amorbach , so that the castle and park originally formed a landscape-architectural unit, as the viewing axes show.

Roman "antiquities"

It contains reconstructions and landscaping spoilage from the Roman Limes - Fort Eulbach , 150 meters to the east , the Fort Würzberg and other sites on the Odenwald Limes . The count, who was enthusiastic about antiquity, had these Roman components integrated into the park, which he had excavated during his investigations into Roman sites. He reconstructed pieces of wall, castle gates, inscription stones, columns and other artefacts. For this purpose, the majority of finds from the immediately adjacent Eulbach Fort were brought into the park, but objects from other sites in the Odenwald were also integrated into the landscape park. An obelisk was erected from stones from the nearby Würzberg Castle.

The reconstructions no longer correspond in any way to today's knowledge. However, they reflect the level of knowledge, the imagination and enthusiasm for antiquity of Romanticism and are therefore in themselves a valuable historical cultural testimony. The Eulbacher Park is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

photos

  • Impressions from the Eulbacher Park

  • Pond system

  • Roman stone column

  • Rebuilt Roman fort gate

  • obelisk

  • Deer in the wildlife park

  • Hirsch eye to eye

literature

  • Dietwulf Baatz : Michelstadt-Eulbach . In: The Romans in Hesse. Nikol, Hamburg 2002, p. 432 ff. ISBN 3-933203-58-9
  • Holger Göldner: The English Garden “Eulbacher Park”. Roman relics from the Odenwald Limes in a 19th century landscape garden near Michelstadt in the Odenwald district. In: Archaeological monuments in Hessen. Issue 152, State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-89822-152-0
  • Jörg Lindenthal: Cultural Discoveries. Archaeological monuments in Hessen. Jenior, Kassel 2004, pp. 153f., ISBN 3-934377-73-4
  • Anita Rieche: The Roman ruins in the English Garden of Eulbach . In: Die Gartenkunst  20 (2/2008), pp. 315–334.
  • Anita Rieche: Roma fuit. Buildings in the landscape garden Eulbach. In: Bonner Jahrbücher, Volume 204, Zabern, Mainz 2004, ISBN 978-3-8053-3687-1 , pp. 233-258.
  • Egon Schallmayer : The Odenwald Limes. From the Main to the Neckar. Theiss, Stuttgart 1984, pp. 79 ff. ISBN 3-8062-0328-8
  • Walter Weidmann: Eulbach. A home book . City of Michelstadt, Michelstadt 2002, ISBN 3-924583-39-0

Web links

Commons : Schloss und Park Eulbach  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 48 ″  N , 9 ° 4 ′ 33 ″  E