Biebrich Castle Park
The Biebrich Castle Park is a park at Biebrich Castle in Wiesbaden . It extends mainly north of the castle over a length of about 1,200 meters with a width of 300 meters and is traversed by the Mosbach .
The park was initially laid out as a French garden and the area north of the palace buildings was filled in for this purpose. This created a plateau that can be reached from the west via a wide staircase. The terrain slopes slightly to the north. The first design came from Maximilian von Welsch around 1720 and had a regular pattern of paths, which was bordered by balustrades and the orangery. From 1817 to 1823 Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell converted the garden into an English landscape park and expanded it to the north. The former orangery was demolished. You can still see elements of the original complex, such as the two fountains directly behind the castle and two straight avenues. The foundation walls of a medieval castle, on which the master builder Carl Florian Goetz built a romantic artificial ruin, the Mosburg , in the middle of a pond, lay on the expanded area .
The Princesses Pond, originally located in the southwestern part of the park, was later filled in. The annual Whitsun tournament of the Wiesbaden Riding and Driving Club has been held here since 1949 . Over the years, the Whitsun tournaments have developed into a meeting place for the international elite of dressage and show jumping riders. With over 50,000 visitors, they have taken on the character of a folk festival and are considered a social event. The palace park was expanded in the 1960s by Ernst May , who at that time was the city of Wiesbaden's planning officer.
The park is professionally managed by the administration of the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse , and it is managed by the Hessian Real Estate Management .
Exotic fauna
Since the 1990s at the latest, several species of parrots have settled in the castle park, of which the ring-necked parakeets in particular have increased so much that they can be considered established . They draw the park visitors' attention with their noisy screams and can be recognized in flight by their bright yellow-green plumage. From here they spread to other Wiesbaden parks. According to the Society for Nature Conservation and Ornithology Rhineland-Palatinate , around 1,300 ring-necked parakeets and several hundred of the somewhat larger Alexander parakeets currently live in Wiesbaden and the surrounding area .
Biebrich Castle seen from the park side
Free-living Alexander parakeet in the castle park
Mosburg with pond
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kiesow: Architekturführer, p. 308 ff.
- ↑ Wiesbadener Reit- & Fahr-Club eV: History of the Wiesbaden Whitsun Tournament ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ large estates
- ↑ Parrot Network Working Group: Parrots on the doorstep. Ring-necked parakeets in Wiesbaden
- ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau of January 10, 2009: Frost causes problems for parrots. Around 2,000 exotic species live in the city's parks
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 23.8 ″ N , 8 ° 14 ′ 2.1 ″ E