Adolph von Holzhausen Park in Frankfurt

Adolph von Holzhausen Park in Frankfurt

Today, private gardens of the upper classes in the city of Frankfurt are often public gardens. This is also the case with Holzhausen Park in the Nordend district. An avenue of chestnut trees leads toward Holzhausenschlössen, which is situated in a pond. The small baroque moated castle stands at the edge of the park with a large lawn and an extensive children's playground under old trees.

 

The castle was built in 1722 by the architect Rémy de la Fosse as a summer residence. The park was created at the end of the eighteenth century as an English landscape park and was originally 17 hectares in size. Today, only 3.5 hectares of it remain. Under the mayor of Frankfurt, it was largely built over during the Wilhelminian period of the late nineteenth century with the Holzhausen quarter. The remainder, which still exists today, owes its existence to a protest by the citizens of Frankfurt against the overbuilding. In the castle itself, the famous pedagogue Pestalozzi worked for a time as a tutor.