Pleasureground – Wikipedia
The Pleasureground is a building of a building in the landscape park of English style, in which, in contrast to the outside park, the artistic park is emphasized towards the natural elements of the facility.
The German landscape artist Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau explains the importance of this term in his publication published in 1834 Hints about landscape nursery as follows:
“The word flowereground is difficult to reproduce in German, and I therefore think it is better to maintain the English expression. This means a steading, decorated and fenced terrain, to have a greater extent as a gardens, to a certain extent a middle thing, a link between the park and the actual gardens. ” [first] And further: “[…] If the park is a attracted idealized nature, the garden is a more extensive apartment […] In this way, you set the series of rooms, on an enlarged scale Heaven on, […] ” [2]
Pückler-Muskaus Description applies to one of the three sections of the English landscape garden, which was divided from the outer edges to the main building in it in park, PleasureRound and flower garden. Usually there was also a flower -decorated terrace on the building itself, so that the transition from the free landscape to the building was graded several times.
The garden type of the Pleasure Ground in the form of a torn lawn directly at the house was already known in the Renaissance in England, and it became very popular from the second half of the 18th century. Funded by the landscape architect Humphry Repton, this division around 1800 was also distributed in Germany and was taken over by Prince Pückler-Muskau and Peter Joseph Lenné, who used the design concept in their designs for Muskau, Glienicke and Babelsberg. The first Pleasure Ground in Prussia is probably the one created by Lenné from 1816 at the Glienick Castle.
The Pleasure Ground is a garden artistically particularly finely designed garden section. It consists of a lawn area that is decorated in many gradations directly on the house. This lawn is very care -intensive, because the desired image was to make the lawn appear like a “velvety carpet”. The decoration includes indigenous and exotic plants that were created as flower carpets in various, mostly geometric shapes and, according to the ideas of Reptons, tastefully on the lawn, mostly in the way, travels, distributed, round or oval flower baskets, as well as special solitary bushes and trees, also Statues, water features, small ponds or garden buildings. A fence that delimited the Pleasure Ground from the rest of the park should make the separation between the idealized nature of the English landscape garden and the artistic design of the decorative garden visible. On the other hand, the fencing was made for pragmatic reasons in order to keep grazing cattle or wild animals away from the ornamental garden. Around the outer part of the Pleasure Ground, partly also through it through it, a merciless path system (“belt”, English: belt-walk ) in a terrain shaped with gentle hills, shrub and tree groups at different points of view. These can be experienced by leaving and released prospects for buildings and the surrounding landscape, which is included as a backdrop.
- Klaus-Henning von Krosigk, chapter on the Pleasure Ground in: Dieter Hennebo: Garden monument preservation. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 1985, pp. 232–253.
- Klaus-Henning from Krosigk: Small-glue thickness with a bottleeground . In: State Monument Office Berlin (ed.): Garden art berlin. 20 years of garden monument preservation in the metropolis. Schlezky & Jeep, Berlin 1999.
- Anne Schäfer: The Pleasure Ground and the special gardens in Branitz . In: municipal foundation Fürst Pückler Museum – Park and Schloß Branitz (ed.): 150 years of Branitzer Park. Cottbus 1998, S. 90–99.
- ↑ Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau: Hints about landscape nursery. Fifth section. Park and gardens. Stuttgart 1834, S. 48.
- ↑ Pückler-Muskau: Hints [….] S. 52, 53.
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