French Garden, Celle
The French Garden in Celle is a historic public park in the south of the main town square. He is listed in the monument list the city of Celle and protected as a monument according NDschG.
Description of the plant
On the north side defines an approximately 330 m long, four-row avenue of lime trees of the park, it has the name of Duchess Eleanor Ave. In the south, a mulberry Avenue forms the border of the garden. At the extreme east and south sides of the Magnus ditch runs, named after Duke Magnus. This trench, it was originally created as part of a defensive line, is derived from Celle, in the " goat island " of the Aller, encloses the southern part of the old town of Celle and flows near the Celler -Harbour in the Aller. He feeds both the pond in the park, as above the moat and the moat with water.
The circular pond on the western border of the park is mapped in this form for the first time in 1770. Before, four rectangular ponds here. It has a diameter of 95 meters, a circumference of about 300 m, a water depth of 80 cm to 1.60 m and a water area of 7,000 m². On a small island, two old weeping willows. In the middle of the pond is a multi-beam fountain, which is illuminated in the evening.
Before the pond a self-contained part is designed as a rose garden, which still reminds in its shape to the former design as a Baroque garden.
In the eastern part of the garden is the Renaissance castle built in 1611, an open air theater and 1784, designed by Adam Friedrich Oeser from Crottendorfer marble monument of the banished to Celle Danish Queen Caroline Mathilde.
Next includes the park winding paths, flower beds, large lawns, trees and shrubs groups, sculptures and monuments.
The extreme northern part of the park area was divided in 1927. Here is the Lower Saxony State Institute of Apiculture.
History
Already at the beginning of the 17th century there was an orchard here. Duke Christian had in 1611 in the Renaissance style truss construction, the still existing " castle" building. Originally this house was the home of the head gardener. Today it is used as a daycare.
From 1670 on the initiative of Eleonore d' Olbreuse, wife of Duke Georg Wilhelm, the French Gardener Henri Péronnet († 1690) is entrusted with the design of the garden. From 1690-1701 was René Dahuron, also a Frenchman, responsible. Probably the garden was renamed " French Garden " according to their country of origin. In the period of 1695-1696 for the first time the four-row avenue of lime trees is created, which was completely renovated in 1951-53.
As of 1713 the garden artist Ernst August Charbonnier was employed for the French garden.
The current appearance no longer that of a French garden, but the English landscape parks, going to Caroline Mathilde, who banished from Denmark, divorced queen who lived 1772-1775 in Celle, back. After her death, the care of the garden was temporarily neglected. Thus disappeared in 1801, the small summer house, which they had built on the edge of the pond.
From the mid 19th century, under the direction of Oberhof Marshal Carl Ernst von Malortie, according to the plans of the garden inspector Franz Christian Schaumburg, the plant got its present form.
Beginning of the 20th century sets the garden inspector Otto von Boehn to the rose garden, which was renewed in 1996.
1924 a children's playground and 1957, the open-air stage was created before the castle in the east of the site. The elms on Magnus ditch were replaced in 1933 by maple trees. The mulberry avenue was replanted in 2002. You should remember the originally south of the park located mulberry plantation, which was created for silkworm breeding.
- French Garden Celle
Pond ( in the background the Empress Auguste -Viktoria -Gymnasium )
Caroline Mathilde monument at the eastern entrance
Monument commemorating the Battle of Langensalza
Avenue of lime trees ( 1951-53 renewed )