Ornamental farm

The Ornamental Farm or ornamented farm , more rarely rural farm , (all forms in both upper and lower case possible, eng. , Dt. Beautiful farm, also French. Ferme ornée ) is a term from the art of horticulture . It describes the tendency to aesthetically combine the agriculturally used areas of a property with the only decoratively used garden areas to form a unit. The English landscape architect Stephen Switzer first described the theoretical foundations in one of his works around 1715.

The idea of ​​treating the existing agricultural areas as part of the entire garden was combined with Rousseau's idea of ​​a life closer to nature to a pastoral idyll in which life in the country was romantically transfigured. From the economically used ornamental farm , the hameau (French, German hamlet, village) developed in the middle of the 18th century as an artificial organism within a garden area in which deliberately simple farmhouses, dairies, mills, kitchen gardens and cattle are often only still served as romantic accessories and took on the role of folly .

Examples

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  Farmhouse in the hameau of Chantilly Castle

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  Farmhouse in the Queen's Hameau at Versailles

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  The village in the Nymphenburg Palace Park

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  The Swiss House of Ludwigslust Palace

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  Queen Charlotte's Cottage in Kew Gardens

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  Swiss Cottage on liselund

literature

• Rolf Tomann (ed.): Garden art in Europe. From antiquity to the present , Könemann, 2000, ISBN 3829064950 .

• Simone Schulz: Garden art, agriculture and poetry with William Shenstone and his Ferme Ornée “ The Leasowes ” in the mirror of his literary circle . Free University of Berlin, 2005 ( online version - dissertation).

• Simone Schulz: "Divini gloria ruris!" Garden art, agriculture and poetry with William Shenstone and his Ferme Ornée "The Leasowes", in: Die Gartenkunst, year 22/2010, issue 1, p. 75 ff.