Pleasureground

The Pleasure Ground is a building near the garden section in landscape park in the English style, are emphasized which in contrast to outlying parking artistic compared to the natural -like elements of the system.

Term

The German landscape artist Hermann Fürst von Pueckler explains the meaning of this term in his 1834 published book " Hints on landscape gardening " as follows:

Pueckler Muskau description is one of the three sections of the English landscape garden, which was divided from the outer edges aligned to lie in the main building back in park, pleasure ground and flower garden. Most was also a flowery terrace by the building itself, so that is the transition from the open countryside to the building was graded several times.

History

The garden type of pleasure ground in the form of a set decorated lawn next to the house was known in England as early as the Renaissance, from the second half of the 18th century they became very popular. Funded by the landscape architect Humphry Repton, this division was in 1800 in Germany and dissemination was taken over, among others, Prince Pueckler and Peter Joseph, who used the design concept in their designs for Muskau, Glienicke and Babelsberg. The first pleasure ground in Prussia is probably the scale of Lenne 1816 at Glienicker castle.

Shape

The Pleasure Ground is a particularly fine garden artistically landscaped garden section. It consists of an embellished in many shades of lawn at the house. This lawn is in need of care, because the image was requested to leave the lawn as a "velvet carpet " appear. For decorations include native and exotic plants that have been created as a flower carpets of different, mostly geometric shapes and, according to the ideas Repton, tasty on the lawn, usually in ways nearby, distributed, round or oval flower baskets, as well as special solitary shrubs and trees. In addition, statues, water fountains, small ponds or garden building. A fence that demarcated the pleasure ground from the rest of the park grounds, should make for a separation between the idealized nature of the English landscape garden and the artistic design of the ornamental garden visible. Secondly, it was the enclosure for pragmatic reasons, to keep grazing cattle or wild animals from the ornamental garden. Around the outer part of the Pleasure Grounds around, partly through him, leads a tortuous path system ( " Gürtelweg ", English: belt -walk ) in a molded with rolling hills, bush and tree groups terrain at different points of view. This can be experienced by the pacing and give views of buildings and the surrounding countryside freely, which is included as a backdrop with.