„Prinz-Emil-Garten" in Darmstadt

„Prinz-Emil-Garten" in Darmstadt

 

The Prinz-Emil-Garten is located in the district of Bessungen – a quarter of the Hessian town of Darmstadt. The park was created from 1772 on the model of an English landscape park in the name of Friedrich Karl von Moser by the Dieburg garden master Nikolaus Andreas Siebert. The castle was built by Johann Martin Schuknecht.

Formerly, in addition to two ponds and streams, according to romantic feelings, the garden had an artificial Gothic ruin, a chapel (which served as a kitchen), a Russian-style farmhouse and an Island of Chinese pavilion. Due to changes of ownership and the appearance of the garden changed a lot over time. The original English garden presented itself at the turn of the century as a landscape garden of the 19th century with features of the bourgeois garden.

 After the war, enormous interventions were carried out by peripheral buildings, which could only be largely mitigated in the last years due to a renovation concept. Of the once existing buildings, there is still the little castle, which is used for civic use, as well as the newly built island pavilion.

(Leticia)