Saxon Garden

The Saxon Garden (Polish Ogród Saski) is a park in Warsaw, built at the turn of the 18th century, and part of the Saxon axis. The garden closed to the west to the almost completely destroyed in World War II Saxon palace on that is rebuilt since 2006. Currently, it houses the tomb of the unknown soldier, which was reconstructed in the ruins of the castle portico. At the other end of the garden the Warsaw district Za Żelazną Brama begins ( Behind the Iron Gate), which takes its name after the destroyed West Gate ( Brama Żelazna ) received the garden.

The garden was built by the Saxon- Polish King August II the Strong from the House of Wettin in 1700 in Baroque style. The 21 allegorical sculptures originated mostly in the workshop of Johann Georg Plersch.

In 1727 he was made the Warsaw population accessible and refurbished in the 19th century in an English landscape park. After its devastation in World War II, he was restored to a smaller area. Many objects of the Saxon Garden, like the sibyls Temple and the fountains were reconstructed, as opposed to buildings such as the summer theater and the Brühl Palace. Also standing on the north side of the pond Hotel Bruehl was not rebuilt after the war.