Today, the Carl Duisberg Park and Japanese Garden in Leverkusen form a ‘green island’ in the midst of a large industrial complex, the CHEMPARK. The park greets its visitors with sweeping lawns where tall solitary trees, groups of trees and stocks of shrubs create a varied scene. A well-developed network of paths links all the…
In the early 1960s, a former field was planted with a great biodiversity of trees, bushes, and shrubs from all parts of the world. Throughout the seasons, the forest botanical garden offers nature experiences of a particular kind: a ravine full of rhododendrons, a heather garden, a field overflowing with different types of peonies, and…
The Sculpture Park Waldfrieden is situated in the midst of an idyllic forested area in the hills above the Elberfeld and Barmen districts of Wuppertal. Mature deciduous trees line the serpentine road leading to the park, and several works by the British sculptor Tony Cragg can be spotted along the embankments of the entrance approach.…
The Flora-Park was designed by Peter Joseph Lenné in 1864 in a “mixed German garden style”. It contains elements of style from the French Baroque, the Italian Renaissance and English landscape gardens. The centre of the park today remains the glass palace (orangery), an architectural structure of cast iron and glass which was particularly noteworthy…
The spa gardens have their origin in the avenue with double rows of linden trees, which was laid out by prince bishop Ferdinand von Fürstenberg in 1669. An avenue at right angles to this was added at the beginning of the 18th century. Today these two avenues still determine the basic structure of the park,…