Palaisgarten (Dresden)
The Palaisgarten is a garden in Dresden between the Marienbrücke , Japanese Palace , Neustädter Elbufer and Palaisplatz .
history
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The palace garden was laid out in 1715 as a baroque garden or French garden for Jakob Heinrich Graf von Flemming together with the later Japanese palace. Already in 1718/1719 the conversion into a terrace garden took place. The occasion was the celebrations for the wedding of the Elector Prince of Saxony and later Elector Friedrich August II. The garden was decorated with baroque sculptures by Pietro Balestra and Antonio Corradini . Corradini's magnificent marble vases were later moved to the Great Garden .
With several redesigns in the second half of the 18th century, the character of a baroque garden was lost. Instead, the palace garden was converted into a kitchen garden for the court gardening department. During this time (1770/1780) two plane trees were planted , which are still in the palace garden today.
When the palace garden was redesigned again between 1820 and 1831, the area behind the abandoned fortifications was also included . Between 1847 and 1852, Carl Adolph Terscheck redesigned it into an English landscape garden and rounded off the park towards the Kleiner Marienbrücke. A section of the green Altendresdner ramparts can still be seen in the north-western part of the garden.
The palace gardens were reconstructed in the 1980s. The larger-than-life marble sculpture, Liberating oneself, made by Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf from 1987 to 1990 is set up in the Palaisgarten .
Palais summer
Since 2010, the Palais Summer has been held annually in the Palaisgarten from mid-July to the end of August under the direction of Jörg Polenz. In 2018, 75,000 visitors attended the events such as piano, choir, radio play and cinema evenings, panel discussions, readings and yoga units. There is also the possibility of plein air painting, the results will be exhibited on site. The Palais Summer is free of charge and is financed by donations and sponsors.
literature
- Stadtlexikon Dresden A-Z . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1994, ISBN 3-364-00300-9 .
- Art in public space . Dresden Cultural Office, Dresden 1996.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About the Palais Sommer. www.palaissommer.de, accessed on August 30, 2016 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 35 ″ N , 13 ° 44 ′ 15 ″ E