Rose garden

A Rosarium (plural: Rosarien, dt Rose Garden ) is a predominantly planted with roses, usually publicly available, artistically landscaped garden or park, usually intended to collect rose species or varieties from around the world.

Even the rosary, so the string of beads for the multi-unit rosary, or praying the Rosary itself are called Rosarium.

History

The first known collection of roses planted the so-called Rose Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon I at Malmaison near Paris. In the year of death her ​​Rose Garden comprised around 250 varieties of roses - all rose varieties available their time. Today there is still (again) a rose garden, but he has nothing more to do with the famous model.

The oldest existing Rosarium is by Jules Gravereaux (1844-1916), a French businessman, in 1899 been created. It involves the " Roseraie du Val -de- Marne " in L' Haÿ -les -Roses south of Paris, the largest rose garden in France.

Germany

The 1899 -founded, today's Europa-Rosarium in Sangerhausen has the largest collection of roses in the world; the second largest rose garden in Germany is the German Rosarium in Dortmund and the third largest in Europe rose garden in Zweibrücken.

In Germany the Parkrose height is one of the oldest in Darmstadt Rosarien that dates back to the 17th century in the core.

Very old is also the Rose Island in the mountain park William height. It was created in 1766 by Daniel August Schwarzkopf under Landgrave Frederick II of Hesse- Kassel. There is growing inter alia, the " pearl of white stone." It is considered the first German breeding rose. She was from Schwarzkopf, the former head gardener of the Landgrave Frederick II, 1795 was bred and cultivated. After the Rose Island had been neglected for decades, since 1977, made ​​the association Rose Island Park Wilhelm height under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Hedi ( Hedwig ) and wernt Grimm for a revival of the Rosarium.

Gardens of the early 19th century, with a high proportion of roses are the Parkrose height at Darmstadt ( 1810 ), Rosenstein in Stuttgart ( 1824 ).

At a existing since the 16th century Renaissance garden of the rose garden dates back to the New Residence in Bamberg, which was transformed into a pure rose garden in the 18th century. Today there blossom over 4500 roses; it can be found about 50 different varieties.

In Karlsruhe there is since 1899 a rose garden in the city garden / zoo, funded by an endowment Karlsruhe citizens. It was expanded in 1915 and presented around 11,500 roses in about 70 varieties. At the Federal Garden Show 1967 he received its present shape and is now home to 170 species.

In 1912 was begun in the Bavarian state Bad Kissingen with the plant of the rose garden on the banks of the Franconian Saale below the Regent building, which was passed in 1913 of the population. It was the only park for the residents of the resort town, as all other parks and Grünanalagen were reserved for state-owned only for spa guests. Today the visitor in the bathroom Kissinger rose garden can be admired on approximately 2.5 acres of about 12,000 rose bushes in 155 varieties.

The first rose garden in northern Germany created in 1913 in Uetersen under the name Kaiser- Wilhelm- rose garden in honor of the 25th jubilee of Emperor Wilhelm II This park was abandoned for reasons of space around 1933 and rebuilt elsewhere. In today's Rosarium Uetersen of 1934 are on 7 acres over 35,000 roses and 1020 different varieties of roses, including historical to admire 200.

1968 were built on the site of a former garbage dump on the outskirts of Seppenrade some rosaries. This little rose garden was expanded over the years, three times. He currently is 18753 square meters. In the garden there are about 600 varieties of roses and rose plants 24000.

The Rosarium Founded in 1989 in Wilhelmshaven located on an area of ​​4 ha currently over 3,000 roses of 500 varieties.

The Rosarium Glücksburg in the north of Schleswig-Holstein was opened in a former part of the park in 1991 and is home to approximately 1 hectare area over 500 varieties of roses, including mainly historical varieties and Germany's largest collection of English roses.

In the Stuttgart Killesberg bloom in the "Valley of Roses" 18000 Roses in 400 species and varieties that were planted at the IGA in 1993.

Dortmund: Rosarium Westphalia Park

Two Bridges: Europe rose garden

Darmstadt: Park Rosenhöhe

Uetersen: Rosarium

Seppenrade: Rose Park

Wilhelmshaven: Rosarium

Stuttgart: Valley of Roses in Killesberg

France

In addition to the above-mentioned oldest and largest rose garden in France L' Haÿ -les -Roses, among others, the following French Rose collections are worth mentioning: Roseraie du Parc de Bagatelle in the Bois de Boulogne, Roseraie du Parc Floral de la Source in Orléans ( 16 Arrdt. ), Roseraie du Parc de la Beaujoire in Nantes, Roseraie Saint -Nicolas in Chalon -sur -Saône, Roseraie du Parc de la Tête d'Or in Lyon, Roseraie du Conservatoire botanique de Charance in Gap, Roseraie de Saverne, Roseraie de l ' Ecole du Breuil in the Bois de Vincennes in Paris (12th Arrdt. ) Roseraie du Lycée de Lomme horticole.

Morocco

The city of El- Kelâa M'Gouna is known as the Rose City of Morocco. At it borders the valley of roses, a large rose -growing area, which also houses a rose garden.

Netherlands

The biggest Rosarium of the Netherlands is located in Winschoten (Groningen ).

Austria

On 14 June 2001 Governor Hans Niessl opened the baroque Rose Garden "Stone and Rose" in Kaisersteinbruch. In this way arose before the European fountain with the "wall of unit" means a park with historic English roses. Thus the first step to a "Garden Road" along the Leitha Mountains was set.

Another Burgenland Rosarium was built in 2003 in the spa town of Bad Sauerbrunn, Burgenland, Austria. There are over 1,600 roses on display in 300 varieties.

In Baden, there is the public-access Doblhoffpark with a rose garden.

Switzerland

1913 was the " traffic and beautification Rapperswil and around " the rose gardens in Rapperswil set up the fish market Platz on Lake Zürich, followed by additional plantings on the lakefront beginning of the 1920s, to the streets and squares in the old city densely built. Rose gardens in the proper sense followed around 1965, inter alia, the hermit house in the former orchard of the Capuchin monastery. A nation -wide feature is the 1984 planted scent rose garden for the blind in the city center with approximately 1,500 roses of 75 fragrances are consistently marked with Braille and normal font. Between June and October blossom total of around 15,000 hybrid teas, shrub roses and Polyantha in the gardens and streets of the city of roses.

Trivia

• Rose Garden is in many European countries, a common name or designation ( Denmark), for example, retirement home
• St. John's Cemetery (Rose Cemetery ) in Nuremberg (stock from the 16th century ) with lots of old rose high sticks.