Saint Germain terrace

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Overview of the terrace

The Saint-Germain-Terrasse in Aschaffenburg is a public garden with baroque and modern sculptures above the banks of the Main . The complex is an extension of the court garden of Johannisburg Palace and has direct access from the gardens around the Pompejanum , but also from outside via Ziegelbergstrasse.

The terrace is supported by a wall with a fountain with three gargoyles on the underside. Covered stairs lead down from the terrace. There is a vineyard below the fountain.

  • Fountain on the terrace

  • Saint Germain terrace with trumpet flowers

  • Saint-Germain-Terrasse, statue "Sinnende" by Ursula Ullrich-Jacobi, 2003

  • Gargoyles on a fountain under the St. Germain terrace in the courtyard garden of Johannisburg Palace

  • Lizard on a wall below the Saint-Germain terraces

Around the Pompejanum, which is a replica of a villa from the Roman city of Pompeii, Mediterranean plants are preferably kept, partly outdoors, partly in pots that can be removed in winter. This is intended to support the southern flair of the facility. When the facility was expanded to include the terrace on the initiative of the city administration in the mid-1960s, this concept was continued here. Today agaves , figs and vines grow here . Pyramid poplars stand instead of non-winter-hardy cypresses , pines instead of pines . Trumpet flowers (campsis) grow on the railing above the retaining wall . In the retaining wall of the terrace is for decades a stable population of lizards that have been exposed there of people.

The terrace takes its name from Aschaffenburg's French twin town, Saint-Germain-en-Laye , where the famous garden artist André Le Nôtre (1613–1700) built a mighty terrace over the Seine in the 17th century .

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Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '40.9 "  N , 9 ° 8' 5.7"  E