Rousseau Island

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The frozen Rousseau Island in Wörlitzer Park (January 2009)

Most artificially created, small islands in lakes are referred to as Rousseau Island, which are modeled on the burial site of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the "Île des Peupliers" (German: Island of Poplars ) in the park of Ermenonville . A circle of poplars or alders was planted on the round islands, surrounding an ornamental urn or a cenotaph . This bill cemeteries of romance clarified the sympathies of the park owner with the social reform or nature-loving ideas of Rousseau. They were mainly used as a design element in the creation of landscape parks in the English style .

There were or are Rousseau Islands in the following parks:

The stone-fortified Île Rousseau , used as a bridge support, is located at the outflow of the Rhone from Lake Geneva . Sometimes the St. Petersinsel in Lake Biel , where Rousseau lived for a while, is named after him.

The burial island in the large park pond of the Gotha Castle Park is not explicitly named Rousseau Island, but designed according to the model in Ermenonville . From 1779 and 1848 it was used for the burial of three dukes and two princes of the Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg family . The "granite column with an urn made of Carrara marble and a base from Serpentino antico" that once adorned it is no longer preserved today.

Another variant of the veneration of Rousseau in the form of the symbolic replica of his grave was shown in the late 18th century in the arrangement of round groups of trees, even without the inclusion of lakes. Franz Moritz von Lacy , for example, had such a group created in what is now the Schwarzenbergpark . He referred to the complex as the Tombeau de JJ Rousseau .

Pictures of the islands

  • The model of the Rousseau Islands, the Île des Peupliers with the tomb of Rousseau

  • The Rousseau Island in the Great Zoo with a memorial column

  • Rousseau Island in the "swan pond" of the Althaldensleben-Hundisburg landscape park

  • Rousseau Island in the Herrnsheim Palace Park.

  • Île Rousseau on Lake Geneva

  • The burial island in the large park pond in Gotha Castle Park

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to Article A landscape garden is like an accessible painting in the Gießener Allgemeine from June 9, 2008
  2. ↑ according to Volker Gallé , Fantasies of Celts & Teutons on the website of the Nibelungenlied Society
  3. ↑ according to Entry Rousseau Island in Pierer's Universal Lexicon , 4th edition (1857–1865) at Zeno.org
  4. ↑ August Beck, Ernst the Second, Duke of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg, as carer and protector of science and art , Gotha 1854, p. 226
  5. ↑ according to Géza Hajós, in: Romantic Gardens of the Enlightenment , ISBN 3-205-05161-0 , Böhlau, Vienna-Cologne 1989, p. 42