Tea house

The tea house is a design element of landscape architecture - especially in Japan, in China and in Europe in the 18th century. In general, it is a solitary pavilion.

Europe

Teahouses were part of fashionable China enthusiasm of the Baroque. Outstanding examples are the tearooms in Pagodenburg of Nymphenburg Palace in Munich or the Chinese teahouse in Sanssouci Park in Potsdam. Many nobles and wealthy citizens imitated the grandiose role models. Other famous tea houses in Germany are the one in the White Castle Park in Stuttgart and Kengo Kuma's Teahouse in Frankfurt am Main.

Hamburg imported in 2009 from its twin city of Shanghai, the building material for a tea house and put it on behind the Ethnology Museum.

Asia

The models, the tea houses in Asia, mainly China and Japan, have a very old tradition. In Japan, the simply furnished teahouses aware of the tea ceremony, a special form of expression of Japanese culture serve. The typical Japanese tea house is surrounded by a small Japanese garden, often with a pool of water. It is an integral part of the tea ceremony.

In contrast, political influences slowed down the Chinese tea culture, so many tea houses had to close. In the families the traditions have been preserved and passed down from generation to generation.