List of gardens of Alsace
The gardens of Alsace listed and described below are the most outstanding among those
French Ministry of Culture and the Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France.[1]
Gardens of Alsace
Bas-Rhin
Haut-Koenigsbourg
from the road between Châtenois and Kintzheim- Claude Lorraine, and Hubert Robert.
- English park, with many hundred-year-old trees. Much of the garden was destroyed in the First World War, but was restored by the Grunelius family, the present owners.
- American oak trees; cryptomeria trees from Japan; and groves of bamboo. In spring the garden has colorful displays of rhododendrons.
- Plobsheim - The Garden of Marguerite. A small English "secret" garden created by Marguerite and Michel Goetz in 1990, in the heart of the Alsatian village of Plobsheim. The garden features a stream, bridge, fountain, 2000 varieties of plants, and 150 varieties of old roses.
- carnivorous plants.
- Victoria regia) from the Amazon Riverbasin.
- Thirty Years Warin the 17th century, whose buildings, like those of other Protestant farms of the time, were painted blue. The garden features sculpture, fruit trees and fountains, and colorful seasonal displays of flowers. The garden was created by landscape architect Jean-Louis Cura.
Haut-Rhin
- dahlias and iris.
- sp.); and many kinds of seasonal flowers.
- and plants chosen for their smell and touch.
- allées.
- Ostheim - Park de Schoppenwihr. Created in 1840 as a large romantic park to frame a castle, the garden is a series of spaces that appear as natural as possible. Achille Duchêne redesigned it in 1930 and it was Badly damaged during the battle of Colmar in 1945. Today, the castle is gone and the park is finding a new dimension as an art garden. The park 40 hectares, contains giant and rare trees, 5 lakes, a river, a forest, fields and meadows.
See also
- Gardens of the French Renaissance
- Garden à la française
- French landscape garden
- Gardens in France
References
- ^ The complete list and the criteria for selection (in French) can be found on the website of the Comité des Parcs et Jardins.
Bibliography
- Michel Racine, Jardins en France — Guide illustré,, Actes Sud, 1999.
- Lucia Impelluso, Jardins, potagers et labyrinthes, Éditions Hazan, Paris, 2007.
External links
- Searchable list of all the gardens on the list, on the website of the Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France (in French)
- Chateau de Kintsheim images (in French)
- Kolbsheim images (in French)
- The Domaine of Windeck images (in French)
- Garden of Marguerite images (in French)
- Botanical Garden of the Saverne Pass images (in French)
- The Botanical Gardens of the Université Louis-Pasteur images (in French)
- Garden of La Ferme Bleue images (in French)
- Park of the Marseillaise images (in French)
- Park of Wesserling images (in French)
- Mulhouse Sud-Alsace images (in French)
- Park Alfred Wallach images (in French)
- Park de Schoppenwihr images (in French)