Enea Tree Museum

47°13′24″N 8°51′56″E / 47.223386°N 8.865667°E / 47.223386; 8.865667

The Enea Tree Museum is a 75,000 m² park near Lake Zurich in Rapperswil-Jona, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The tree museum shows over 50 trees from over 25 species as well as sculptures by international artists.^[1]^[2]

History

The tree museum, founded in 2010, was planned and built by landscape architect Enzo Enea. The property at Lake Zürich was leased from the Mariazell-Wurmsbach Cistercian Abbey. Before the construction, water had to be extracted from the former wetland. For this purpose, an avenue of swamp cypresses was set up. This tree species naturally extracts a lot of water from the soil (evapotranspiration). Today this avenue forms the entrance to the tree museum. The museum has been open to the public since it opened.

Access
Reception building and café
Orangery
The main building in the background
In the park

Tree population

The trees growing in the tree museum should have been felled, but were rescued by Enea and replanted in the tree museum. The following specimens belong to the tree population:

Fan Maple (Acer palmatum)
Persian Ironwood (Parrotia persica)
Japanese larch (Larix kaempferi 'Diana')
Japanese cherry (Prunus serrulata)
Umbrella Pine (Sciadopitys verticillata)
Flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus)
Scots Pine (
Pinus sylvestris
)
Japanese Yew (Taxus cuspidata)
Catawba rhododendron (Rhododendron Catawbiense)
Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum)
Catalpa (Catalpa bignonioides)
Common plum (Prunus domestica)
Hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Nana Gracilis')
London plane tree (Platanus x hispanica)

Chinese Junipers (Juniperus media 'Hetzii')
Chinese Magnolia (Magnolia x soulangeana)
Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii)
Dutch Elm (Ulmus x hollandica 'Jacqueline Hillier')
Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum)
Full moon maple (Acer japonicum 'Aconitifolium')
Paperback Maple (Acer griseum)
Maidenhair tree (Ginkgo biloba)
Horse Chestnut Tree (Aesculus hippocastanum)
Sargent crabapple (Malus toringo sargentii)
Japanese maple (A. palmatum 'Dissectum Garnet')
White pine (Pinus parviflora)
Small-leaved lime (Tilia cordata)

Art

Sculptures by international artists can be found in the tree museum. The following works of art are curated in the Tree Museum:

3 Königinnen, Risch / Duosch
Alpaka, Jürgen Drescher
Animello, Sergio Tappa
Antenna, Steve Claydon
Around Tiger Island, Nigel Hall
Berserker II, Stalla Hamberg
Bird, Cristian Andersen
Dew of Moon, Masatoshi Izumi
Fiora, Richard Erdmann
Fiora – Working Model, Richard Erdmann
Fiore, Manolo Valdés
Inselbuch, Das, Martin Kippenberger
Infanta Margarita, Manolo Valdés
Lou, Jaume Plensa
Meander, James Licini

Mushrooms, Sylvie Fleury
Pulpo Otto, Jeremie Crettol
Remos Schnauz, Sergio Tappa
Relay, Kerim Seiler
Schweinebauch, Olaf Nicolai
Sentinel, Richard Erdman
Sentinel – Working Model, Richard Erdmann
Sentinel, Jaume Plensa
Sleeping Mountain, Masatoshi Izumi
Snailholesuperlove, Jeremie Crettol
Southern Shade V, Nigel Hall
Spira, Richard Erdmann
Unlimited & Limiters, Steve Claydon
Wasserhahn, Risch / Duosch
WVZ 147, Elmar Trenkwalder

References

^ "Enea Baummuseum". Stadt Rapperswil-Jona (in German). Stadt Rapperswil-Jona. Archived from the original on 2020-01-14. Retrieved 2019-09-17.
^ Bruno Knellwolf, Bruno Knellwolf. "Bäume als Kunstwerke" (in German). Retrieved 2019-09-17.

External links

[1] "Enea Baummuseum". Stadt Rapperswil-Jona (in German). Stadt Rapperswil-Jona. Archived from the original on 2020-01-14. Retrieved 2019-09-17.

[2] Bruno Knellwolf, Bruno Knellwolf. "Bäume als Kunstwerke" (in German). Retrieved 2019-09-17.

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