Karlsgarten in Aachen-Melaten

Karlsgarten Melaten

The Karlsgarten in Aachen-Melaten is a garden based on historical models in the Aachen district of Melaten, in which medicinal herbs , vegetables, fruit trees and other useful plants are grown according to the list in Chapter 70 of Charlemagne's Capitulare de villis .

On September 2, 2000, the Karlsgarten at Gut Melaten was opened by the Friends of the Botanical Garden Aachen, a registered association. In the design, “elements of European garden culture were deliberately used, because Charlemagne's herb garden never existed in this form, even in Aachen. The Aachen Karlsgarten is a modern and contemporary interpretation of the Capitulare List. It reminds of Charlemagne and the tradition of the monastery gardens. "

The Freundeskreis Botanischer Garten Aachen also maintains another, much smaller Karlsgarten at Aachen City Hall , which has existed since 1965.

See also

• List of botanical gardens in Germany

Web links

Commons : Karlsgarten  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Karlsgarten in Melaten Freundeskreis Botanischer Garten Aachen eV
• Karlsgarten: A legacy of Charlemagne Interview with Karl Josef Strank, Managing Director of the Freundeskreis Botanischer Garten Aachen eV, in: PTA-Forum 12/2014

Individual evidence

1. ^ Walter Kaemmerer, Bernhard Poll, Hans Siemons: Aachens history in data . City archive Aachen , Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-87519-214-1 , p. 697 .
2. ^ Karl Josef Strank in PTA forum: Karlsgarten. A legacy of Charlemagne.

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 46.7 ″  N , 6 ° 2 ′ 46.1 ″  E