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
Monument to Ulrich von Hutten
Monument to Götz von Berlichingen and Franz von Sickingen
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