Lütetsburg Castle Park

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The friendship stamp in the palace gardens.

The Lütetsburg Castle Park is located in the municipality of Lütetsburg in East Frisia . Its origins go back to the beginning of the 18th century. The garden area adjacent to the eponymous castle was given its current appearance in the years 1790–1813. It is considered the largest private English landscape garden in Northern Germany and is one of the few examples of the early romantic garden type that has survived on the continent.

history

The palace park was designed in the architectural Dutch style of the Baroque at the beginning of the 18th century and was divided into small pieces in line with the zeitgeist of the time . At the end of the 18th century it had fallen wildly . Edzard Moritz zu Innhausen and Knyphausen had it rebuilt in the years 1790–1813, initially by the Oldenburg court gardener Carl Ferdinand Bosse and later by his son Julius Friedrich Wilhelm Bosse . According to his plans, the largest private English landscape garden in Northern Germany was built on what is now around 30  hectares . The layout clearly shows the turn towards Romanticism in the sense of Jean-Jacques Rousseau , which began in the second half of the 18th century . It is one of the few surviving examples of this early romantic garden type on the continent.

In spite of its naturalness, the garden is a total work of art that creates the impression of constantly new perspectives and natural moods through the variety of plants, the variety of hiking trails, watercourses and small lakes. The park, for which Wörlitz conceptually provided a model, shows strong influences from Chinese garden art , which are expressed in the meandering watercourses, islands, bridges and thatched garden buildings.

The workers raised the excavation for the trenches and lakes to one of the highest peaks in East Friesland, the Unico hill named after Chief Unico Manninga (1529–1588). In 1797, the island of the blessed , on which the deceased members of the family have been buried at sunrise, and the round teahouse, the temple of friendship , were built in the park . A medallion portrait inside the building commemorates Edzard Mauritz's garden friend Johann Ludwig Ransleben, a Prussian tax officer. Edzard Mauritz had several monuments erected in the garden in honor of deceased family members, for example the stone pyramid on the Isle of the Blessed in 1793 , the Temple of Nature in memory of his wife and the Carolineninsel with the monument in memory of his daughter. In 1802 the Norwegian chapel was built . It is a polygonal building made of raw wood. The inscription in the dome reads nature and virtue lead to God . It was Edzard Mauritz's motto in life.

After the park became overgrown, Prince Wilhelm Edzard zu Inn- und Knyphausen (1908–1978) had the area completely restored from 1932 onwards. After the end of the Second World War , the work had to be almost started all over again after 150 bombs fell on the palace and the park. Wilhelm Edzard had the funnels filled with earth and laid out two avenues of linden trees. It was not until 1970 that the restoration of the garden, which was expanded by two hectares to the south in 1990, was largely completed. An approximately five-kilometer network of paths leads through the park, which is open to the public.

Illuminated castle park

Since 2009 there has been a golf course next to the castle park with one public and another reserved for a golf club, each with nine holes.

There is also a stop for the museum railway on the East Frisian Coast Railway from north to Dornum .

Since 2015, the “Illumina” light art festival has been held every year in early autumn in the castle grounds of Lütetsburg . Trees are illuminated , but light installations are also set up. The performance is acoustically accompanied by sound effects and spoken texts. In 2017, an approximately two-kilometer circuit led to the fourteen scenarios.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Julius Friedrich Wilhelm Bosse. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 88-89 ( online ).
  2. ↑ a b c d Alida Gundlach: mansions in Lower Saxony. The book for the NDR series of the same name: BD 1 . Schlüterschen Verlagsgesellschaft. Hannover 2002. ISBN 3-87706-856-1 . Pp. 21-25.
  3. ↑ Gerhard Canzler: The Knyphausen family for 400 years at Lütetsburg Castle . In: Ostfriesischer Kurier of June 4, 1988. Quoted here from: schlosspark-luetetsburg.de: Press review ( memento from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 5, 2016.
  4. ↑ Norddeutscher Rundfunk: Lust for the North . Video. September 22, 2017, 9'23 to 12'20

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 '58  .1 " N , 7 ° 15' 37.1"  E