The Prince George Garden in Darmstadt

 

 The Prince George Garden in Darmstadt

Adjacent to the largest inner-city park in Darmstadt, another smaller garden is hidden behind a wall and obscured by the physical institutes of the Technical University. While the neighboring large Herrngarten is an English landscape park, the Prince Georg Garden exudes a baroque flair. Only 1.8 hectares in size, it was intended as a gift for Prince Georg Wilhelm in 1764. His father, the Landgrave, had two gardens united, which also explains the L-shape of the garden today. At one end is the Prince George Palace from 1710, which houses a porcelain museum and is therefore also called Prozellanschlösschen (Castle of porcelain). At the other end of the L is an ornately painted garden house that once belonged to Lieutenant General Johan Rudolf von Pretlack. The garden itself is planted with flowers, vegetables and herbs, making it both an ornamental and a kitchen garden.