Karlsgarten at Aachen City Hall
The Karlsgarten at Aachen City Hall is a herb garden with a selection of plants from the Capitulare de villis Charlemagne in Aachen . It was created in 1965. It is located on the south side behind the western tower of the Aachen town hall at Katschhof . It is one of several Charles Gardens in Germany, France and Austria.
The Capitulare de villis vel curtis imperialibus, issued around 795, has only survived in a single manuscript, which is now in the Herzog-August-Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel . The final chapter includes a list of herbs to help the sick, the church, and the kitchen. About 50 of them are presented in the herb garden .
The garden was created on the occasion of an exhibition in 1965 about Europe and Charlemagne by the then green space department of the city of Aachen. Today the garden is looked after by the Freundeskreis Botanischer Garten Aachen, which also runs the Karlsgarten in Aachen-Melaten , which opened in the International Charles Year 2000 .
See also
- List of botanical gardens in Germany
- List of culinary herbs and aromatic plants
- List of medicinal plants
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Schmitt: For the Charles year: The herb garden of Charlemagne. In: Forum Classicum - magazine for the subjects Latin and Greek at schools and universities, No. 3, 2000, pp. 212–213
- ↑ Lively Aachen.
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '33.4 " N , 6 ° 5' 0.9" E