Bettenburg Landscape Park

The Bettenburg Landscape Park is a park near the Bettenburg in Lower Franconia .

Geographical location

The Bettenburg Landscape Park is located between the municipalities of Hofheim in Lower Franconia and Manau, approx. 1 km west of the Bettenburg .

history

The landscape park was commissioned by Baron Christian Dietrich Truchseß von Wetzhausen in 1789. It can also be seen in connection with the Bettenburger Round Table , in which the baron gathered intellectuals in a romantic spirit. Among them, for example, the poet Friedrich Rückert . In this context one speaks of a “Franconian Weimar”.

The sculptures in the landscape park take on transfiguring references to the German past.

Views of the landscape park

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  Monument to Ulrich von Hutten

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  Monument to Götz von Berlichingen and Franz von Sickingen

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  Minstrel Square

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  Ruins of the "Altenburg"

literature

• Wolf Eiermann: The wreath of time. On the iconography of the Bettenburg forests (1789–1811) . In: Die Gartenkunst  11 (2/1999), pp. 268–284.
• Liselotte Sörglein-Füglein: The bed castle . Hofheim's landmark . Holl, Hofheim 1998.

Web link

• Bettenburg Landscape Park on the website of the city of Hofheim in Lower Franconia

Coordinates: 50 ° 9 ′ 27 ″  N , 10 ° 33 ′ 15 ″  E