Pleasureground
The Pleasureground is a section of the garden close to the building in an English-style landscape park , in which, in contrast to the park outside, the artistic elements of the complex are emphasized as opposed to the natural elements.
term
The German landscape artist Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau explains the meaning of this term in his 1834 publication Allusions about landscape gardening as follows:
“The word pleasureground is difficult to reproduce sufficiently in German, and I therefore think it would be better to keep the English expression. This means adjoining, adorned and fenced off terrain of a much larger extent than gardens usually have, to a certain extent a middle thing, a link between the park and the actual gardens. ”And further:“ [...] if the park If nature is contracted, idealized, the garden is a more extensive dwelling [...] in this way [...] the row of rooms is continued on a larger scale under the open sky, [...] "
Pückler-Muskau's description applies to one of the three sections of the English landscape garden, which is divided into a park, a pleasure ground and a flower garden, aligned from the outer edges to the main building inside. Usually there was also a flower-decked terrace on the building itself, so that the transition from the open landscape to the building was graded several times.
history
The garden type of the pleasure ground in the form of a decorated lawn right next to the house was already known in England in the Renaissance , and it became very popular from the second half of the 18th century. Funded by the landscape architect Humphry Repton , this division also found widespread use in Germany around 1800 and was adopted by Prince Pückler-Muskau and Peter Joseph Lenné , who used the design concept in their designs for Muskau , Glienicke and Babelsberg . The first pleasure ground in Prussia is probably the one Lenné laid out at Glienicke Castle from 1816 onwards .
shape
The Pleasureground is a particularly finely designed garden section. It consists of a lawn that is decorated in many levels right next to the house. This lawn is very maintenance-intensive, because the ideal was to make the lawn appear like a "velvet carpet". The decoration includes native and exotic plants, which were laid out as flower carpets in various, mostly geometric shapes and, according to Repton's ideas, tastefully on the lawn, mostly near the path, distributed, round or oval flower baskets, as well as special solitary shrubs and trees Statues, water features, small ponds or garden buildings. A fence that separated the pleasure ground from the rest of the park area was intended to make the separation between the idealized nature of the English landscape garden and the artistic design of the ornamental garden visible. On the other hand, the enclosure was made for pragmatic reasons to keep grazing cattle or wild animals away from the ornamental garden. Around the outer part of the Pleasure Grounds, partly through it, a winding system of paths (“ belt walk” ) leads to various points of view in an area formed by gentle hills, groups of shrubs and trees. These can be experienced by pacing and reveal views of buildings and the surrounding landscape, which is thus included as a backdrop.
literature
- Klaus-Henning von Krosigk , chapter on the pleasure ground in: Dieter Hennebo : Gartendenkmalpflege . Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1985, pp. 232-253.
- Klaus-Henning von Krosigk: Klein-Glienicke with Pleasureground . In: Landesdenkmalamt Berlin (Ed.): Gartenkunst Berlin. 20 years of garden monument preservation in the metropolis . Schlezky & Jeep, Berlin 1999
- Anne Schäfer: The pleasure ground and the special gardens in Branitz . In: Kommunale Stiftung Fürst Pückler Museum - Park and Schloss Branitz (Ed.): 150 years of Branitz Park . Cottbus 1998, pp. 90-99