Tuileries Garden

The Jardin des Tuileries ( German: Tuileries ) is a holding in the French style of former Castle Park in Paris.

The park stretches from the Place de la Concorde in the west to the Louvre to the east and in the south of the right bank of the Seine, in the north by the Rue de Rivoli. The Great Garden was on the west side of the French queen Catherine de Medici Italian origin initially created at the time of construction of the Tuileries Palace in 1871 spent in the Italian Renaissance style, and in 1564 first mentioned. Under the direction of coming from Florence garden superintendent of the Tuileries, Bernard de Carnessequi, the gardener Pierre de Villers, Bastien Tarquin and Pierre Le Nostre created the 15 -acre resort, divided by six longitudinal avenues with sycamore, elm and spruce and eight cross avenues. In the neighborhoods fruit trees, saffron and kitchen plants grew. 1567 was built the Medici Fountain, received its water through an aqueduct from Saint- Cloud. 1570/71 created a maze and a grotto of Bernard Palissy, which are no longer available. The first transformation was Henry IV from 1594 make. Pierre Le Nostre edited the parterres to the designs of Claude Mollet, André Tarquin the orchards. 1599 were purchased and applied mulberry plantations 1,000 avenue trees. In the parterre the royal monogram H was shown. 1605 was built on the north side of a nearly 600 -m-long portico. 1602-08 a pumping station was built on the Seine to irrigate the garden, which caused a sensation under the name Samaritaine. In this context, 1607 was the Great Basin. In 1609 the ground floor by Jean Le Nostre was modernized again. It now consisted only of Broderiefeldern. After the so-called Great plan also in 1600 a new garden was planted on the east side of the palace, which consisted of eight square floor panels and served as a royal private garden. Here Claude Mollet put on the parterre, which were published in 1600 by Olivier de Serres.

Under Louis XIV was performed at the direction of the minister Colbert, the next transformation by the landscape architect André Le Nôtre. He laid 1666-72 on the west side of the palace, where until then was a street, a terrace on, the ground floor designed new, with the large fountain in the center axis and the two small side emerged, widened the middle to a wide avenue of chestnut trees and created at the end of the garden, the large octagonal basin and the horseshoe-shaped ramps, leading up to the large terrace, which ran around the garden.

In the course of François Mitterrand in 1981 initiated the reconstruction of the Louvre Tuileries was restored and in this case offset as far as possible back to the state of the 17th century.

In its western part, the former Orangerie and the former Ballhaus Jeu de Paume from the mid-19th century have been preserved. The Orangerie houses the Musée de l' Orangerie with works of Impressionism, from Late Impressionism and the Ecole de Paris, the Ballhaus gallery nationale du Jeu de Paume for exhibitions of contemporary photography and video art.

The garden itself is also home to works of art, including the tree of vowels by Giuseppe Penone, a replica of a fallen tree made ​​of bronze.

The garden is subject in Manet's Music in the Tuileries Gardens (1862 ). Modest Mussorgsky in 1874 inspired his composition Pictures at an Exhibition by the contemplation of paintings. One among them showed the Tuileries Gardens.