Castle garden (Aschaffenburg)
The Aschaffenburg Palace Garden, located above the Main, is a park that connects Johannisburg Palace with the Pompejanum .
history
The palace garden was originally just a narrow green border on three sides around Johannisburg Palace. Through the secularization of areas from the garden of the Capuchin monastery, the acquisition of a section of the city moat as well as private vineyards and orchards on the Ziegelberg, it was gradually expanded to its present shape and size. In 1778 Archbishop and Elector Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal had the so-called Steinernen-Gang , which leads over the city wall, the customs gate and the Theodorichstor, built as a vine walkway and connected to the former town moat by the so-called Kapuziner-Gang (beech hedge hedges) the city fortifications as a narrow green area around the old town leads to the Schöntal park . In the area of the enclosed castle garden, the city moat is still present as a small valley and is traversed by a stream. This little valley between the Breakfast Temple and Pompejanum originally belonged to the "Open Schöntal". The pavilion called Breakfast Temple with its view of the Main was built in 1782 according to a plan by Emanuel Joseph d'Herigoyen on the gray stone , a steep slope to which the Pompejanum rock also belongs.
In the 1840s, King Ludwig I of Bavaria had the castle garden extended into the Ziegelberg vineyard and made accessible with a footbridge over the former moat. In this new garden area he had the Pompejanum built, a free replica of the house of Castor and Pollux, whose relics had been unearthed in historical Pompeii at the foot of Vesuvius. Surrounded by almond trees, with citrus trees in planters and agaves in terracotta plant pots, the Pompejanum brought a little Mediterranean flair to the Main. The Ziegelberger white wine, which has always been grown on the slope, is now called Pompejaner and is sold in the Bocksbeutel over the counter, for example in the castle wine bars, in keeping with its Franconian growing area .
In the 1950s, the city of Aschaffenburg acquired the property on the Ziegelberg (Refugium) in exchange from the English Fräulein's branch . As an extension of the palace gardens, the Saint-Germain terrace was created there , dedicated to the Aschaffenburg twin town of Saint-Germain-en-Laye . Towards the Main, the urban part of the "Aschaffenburger Pompejaner", the wine, was created, which is served on special occasions in the city and distributed as an anniversary gift of the city.
The chestnut grove in front of the grain house is one of the historic gardens around the castle. The group of trees in front of the Jesuit Church was planted when the Schlossplatz was rebuilt in the mid-1980s as a reminiscence of the so-called Seufzerallee - a former poplar avenue between Landingstrasse and the castle. At that time, the green area above the Landingtunnel (meadow with circular path) that runs underneath was also created, which some also call the dog racing area because of its barreness.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 37.9 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 23.6 ″ E