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- Title
VERSCHÖNERUNG DER LANDSCHAFT UNTER DEN SCHÖNBURGERN IN DEN HERRSCHAFTEN WALDENBURG, HARTENSTEIN UNDWECHSELBURG IM ZWICKAUER MULDENLAND.
- Authors
Vogel, Gerd-Helge
- Abstract
In the course of the »Green Revolution« that took place in Germany in the decades around 1800, the concept of »landscape beautification« as a specific garden type played a significant role for both the theory and practice in the art of gardening. In this respect, in Saxony, the hereditary properties of the Schönburg noble family proved to be an important field of experimentation for this development in shaping the landscape. $e Kiel garden theorist Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld (1742–1792), the publisher and author Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker (1753–1813), and the physicotheologist Gotthelf Friedrich Oesfeld (1735–1801), provided the necessary garden-theory prerequisites for a practical imple‐ mentation of this type of garden ideal at the Schönburg estates. $is essay sheds light on these landscapes based upon the examples of three Schönburg dominions: Waldenburg, Hartenstein and Wechselburg. From 1780 to 1800, Otto Carl Friedrich Prince of Schönburg-Stein-Waldenburg (1758–1800) created a small »garden kingdom« with his Greenfield Park. Here, he connected the outer park – an »ornamental farm« used as a »hortus oeconomicus« – together with the inner park – a »sentimental landscape« known as a »hortus didacticus«. From 1813, his sons, Princes Friedrich Alfred (1786–1840) and Heinrich Eduard (1787–1882) von Schönburg-Hartenstein, expanded the huge wooded area of the Hartenstein Forest, which lay between mountain ranges and valleys – comprising rocks, streams, and meadows – into a park-like landscape that invited visitors to take walks with destinations culminating in visits to charming county inns. Beginning in the year 1824, when their cousin, Carl Heinrich Alban Count von SchönburgWechselburg (1804–1864) established the Wechselburg Castle as his main residence, he also transformed the former baroque garden there into a classic English landscape park. While the outer area of this complex was le" in its natural state with native trees and shrubs, he surrounded the pleasure ground of the castle meadow with a variety of picturesque, exotic plants, which evoke the image of an enchanting fairy-tale world owing to the richness of their colors and shapes. His descendants, the Counts Karl von Schönburg-Forderglauchau (1832–1898) and Joachim Schönburg-Glauchau (1873–1943), added new, picture-like settings to the Wechselburg park. $ey initiated a philosophical-ideological revitalization of individual park scenes by introducing elements with mystical, religious and dynastic themes. $e landscape beautification projects carried out by the Schönburgs during the late 18th to the end of the 19th centuries reflect various, exemplary tendencies in the design for this special type of landscape garden.
- Publication
Aha! Miszellen zur Gartengeschichte und Gartendenkmalpflege, 2024, Issue 8/9, p44
- ISSN
2364-0839
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25531/aha.vol9.p44-75