Green fields park
The Green Fields Park is an English landscape garden in Waldenburg , Saxony, of significant garden history .
location
The park borders on the east of the Grünstelder Straße (formerly the historical district Grün (e) feld / Greenfield) and to the north on the street "Am Park" between the Waldenburg districts of Naundorf and Oberwinkel .
history
After Count Otto Carl Friedrich von Schönburg-Waldenburg took over the business of government in 1779, he and his wife Henriette Eleonore Elisabeth, née Countess Reuss von Plauen, built a summer residence with an English garden at the gates of Waldenburg, which he called "Greenfield". On his Grand Tour , which had also taken him to England, he had gotten a taste for the new English landscape gardens. The gardens of Windsor , Kensington , Hamptoncourt and Kew Gardens were to be inspiration for his own gardens. The garden plans themselves came from the Saxon court and garden architect Christian Friedrich Schuricht. The park was created from 1780 to 1797 on an area of 113 hectares. According to the landscape plan from 1813, the park had 53 buildings, memorial stones and other staffage structures , of which only a few have survived.
Today at the entrance to the park is the Parkschlösschen, which was built between 1844 and 1846, the previous building of which was demolished in 1841/42. The new building received a tower, a flight of stairs and a terrace.
Garden architectures
The entrance to the park is a renaissance portal made of red sandstone, which comes from the Waldenburg Castle, which burned down in 1619, with an inscription from the founding of the park: "The quiet joy of nature". It was initially put up as a ruin and was given its present appearance in 1844 after renovation work.
In the park is the so-called bath house , which Otto Karl Friedrich had built for his wife Henriette in the classical style. On the architrave there is a dedication Otto to his wife in capitals : “Henriette, given to his best wife and consecrated Otto”.
The bathhouse, built in the style of English Palladianism , has a portico supported by four columns and a temple gable and is decorated with reliefs in segmental arches made of reddish sandstone, which show bucolic scenes. Some of the reliefs are populated by cupids . According to the restorer, the gray-black smooth plaster is said to be unique in Germany and probably comes from England.
Above the bath house there is a walled cave in the mountainside , in earlier times there was still a closed wildlife park, which was closed in 1842. A holdover from that time are the double hooks in the cave from which the game was hung and gutted.
The grotto with a cave-like hiding place and opening is a former rock face. This was first blown up and then the individual parts were arranged in a suitable shape so that they could be integrated into the park. Since the grotto was part of the game reserve, to which only the noble family had access, it is assumed that the inscription means:
- “Don't want to touch this cave of ours.
- The Senate and the Roman people have
- forbidden that this happen.
- In 1795
- Otto Carl Friedrich
- Prince of Schönburg "
The stone tablet is now on the back of the grotto because it collapsed and was partially rebuilt.
The Dutch country house used to be located at today's open-air theater. The health fountain, also called deer trough, was modeled on a temple, the architrave bears the inscription: " Consecrated to the health- bringing Hygiea as a gift".
The mausoleum was built in the Greek style in 1810. Henriette Eleonore von Schönburg-Waldenburg commissioned it as a souvenir of her husband, Otto Carl Friedrich, who had died in 1800. It bears the inscription "Otto the Unforgettable". The building is 150 m², the interior of the dome was made of precious wood and there were figures on the ledge. It is the only building in the entire park that is not based on the English model. The mausoleum was supposed to be a family crypt, but was never used for it because of the persistent moisture.
The park ends with the “Dianenbad”, also known as the trout pond. There used to be a small wooden temple with a changing room and on the island there was a statue with a Greek girl.
literature
- Wolf-Dieter Röber , Steffen Winkler: Waldenburg Castle . In: Series of publications, Issue 6, Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau, City of Glauchau, 1986, GDR, pp. 17-21 (including the history of Grünefelder Park)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saxon biography
- ↑ HENRICAE CONJVGI OPTIMAE DAT DONAT DEDICAT OTTO
- ↑ SALVTARI HYGIEAE DONO SAKRVM (sic!)
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Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 2 ″ N , 12 ° 36 ′ 23 ″ E