The Rosenhöhe in Darmstadt

The Rosenhöhe in Darmstadt

The name says it all - on the top of the hill on the outskirts of Darmstadt there is a large rose garden. If you walk on from there, you will find yourself in a wooded hilly landscape that makes you forget the nearby big city.

The park was created in 1817, when Grand Duchess Wilhelmine commissioned a master garden designer from Schwetzingen to create an English landscape garden. At its edge, two mausoleums were built after 1826 as burial places for the grand ducal family.

The name-giving rose garden on the highest elevation was built after 1900. Rose dorms, pergolas, terraces and ponds were created. Parts of the original park were converted into farmland or cultivated after the World Wars and have disappeared today. What remained was about 18 hectares of landscape park. Besides the Rose Dome, the new and the old mausoleum, the Lion's Gate and the Biedermeier teahouse are worth seeing.

 

 1. The lion's gate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. The tea house 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. The old mausoleum

4. The new mausoleum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Portal of Palais Brunnen (destroyed during World War II) 

 

 6. Ponds for water lillies (some ponds are heatable)

 

 

 

 

7. Pergola and rose dome

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8. Modern art