Garden of Confluent Water
The Garden of Confluent Water ( Japanese : 融 水 苑 , Yūsuien ) is a Japanese garden and is located as part of the Gardens of the World in the district of Berlin-Marzahn .
The garden was officially opened in 2003. It was created as a project within the framework of the city partnership between Berlin and Tokyo . The garden designer, professor and Zen priest Shunmyō Masuno ( 枡 野 俊明 , Masuno Shunmyō ) planned the garden (Yū Sui En) and the pavilion (Nyo Sui Tei) , which together form a self-contained complex. Like water flowing together, the visitor should find harmony in the fusion of the elements . Japanese gardens try to unite and visualize the abundance and beauty of nature in one garden. The gardens are places of silence and gaze and form a kind of open-air church.
The garden is divided into three parts, which symbolize history, present and future. The water is the leitmotif of the gardens. The spring forms a waterfall, from which the water flows through a lawn. This watercourse symbolizes the course of German history before the brook flows into a small pond that reflects the present. Next to it is a pavilion as an expression of the present, from which one can look out onto a rock garden, which is designed as a Zen meditation garden and represents the future. It is the main garden of the Japanese garden and was built in the style of a dry garden (Kare-san-sui) . The gravel is freshly raked every day.
The Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Labor and Women funded the entire facility, which cost around two million euros, to 80 percent from funds from the joint task of the federal and state governments to improve the regional economic structure. The European Union has co-financed the project from the European Regional Development Fund.
The construction of the pavilion in the garden was supported by the Japan World Exposition Commemorative Fund (JEC) with 170,000 euros. The Tokyo pensioner Masahiko Asada donated 30,000 euros for the wooden entrance gate, and from private Japanese donations from the Sakura Campaign , around 80 Japanese ornamental cherries were planted in the garden , whose bloom is a magnificent spectacle in spring.
Web links
- Park website with gallery
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 18.6 ″ N , 13 ° 34 ′ 49 ″ E