Or if
you prefer, English Garden. This is the first public garden in Europe, believed
to be the biggest city-owned park in Europe, and one of the largest urban parks
in the world. In addition to some pretty awesome urban surfing, other
attractions include nude sunbathing, a Japanese teahouse and gardens built on
an island in the park to celebrate the 1972 Olympic Games. The teahouse was a
gift from a tea school in Kyoto. Only in Japan would there be a tea school.
Well, maybe England, too. There’s also the Chinesischer Turm, a pagoda inspired
by London’s Great Pagoda, which has the second largest beer garden in Munich
and seating for more than seven thousand people. Welcome to Germany.
With an
area of 1.4 square miles the Englischer Garten is one of Europe's largest urban
public parks, larger than New York's Central Park. The name refers to its
English garden form of informal landscape, a style popular in Britain from the
mid-18th century to the early 19th century and particularly associated with
Capability Brown.
When
the Elector of Bavaria Maximilian III Joseph, the last ruler from the Bavarian
branch of the Wittelsbach dynasty, died childless in 1777, the land passed to
the Electorate of the Palatinate archduke and elector Carl Theodor. The new
ruler preferred his home on the Rhine in Mannheim and tried unsuccessfully to
trade this unwanted inheritance of Bavaria for the Austrian Netherlands.
Understandably the people of Munich returned his dislike. To offset this
unhappy atmosphere, Carl Theodor devoted much attention to improvements in the
city. Among others, he created an art gallery in the northern arcades of the
Residence's Hofgarten ("Court Garden"), and made both the garden and
the gallery open to the public (the former in 1780, the latter in 1781).
When
the Elector of Bavaria Maximilian III Joseph, the last ruler from the Bavarian
branch of the Wittelsbach dynasty, died childless in 1777, the land passed to
the Electorate of the Palatinate archduke and elector Carl Theodor. The new
ruler preferred his home on the Rhine in Mannheim and tried unsuccessfully to
trade this unwanted inheritance of Bavaria for the Austrian Netherlands.
Understandably the people of Munich returned his dislike. To offset this
unhappy atmosphere, Carl Theodor devoted much attention to improvements in the
city. Among others, he created an art gallery in the northern arcades of the
Residence's Hofgarten ("Court Garden"), and made both the garden and
the gallery open to the public (the former in 1780, the latter in 1781). The
Rumford Monument in the park honours Sir Benjamin Thompson's contribution
The
planned location for the Munich gardens was the area north of the Schwabinger
city gate, hunting grounds of the Wittelsbach rulers since the Middle Ages.
Known as the Hirschanger (or "deer enclosure"), the higher part of
the grounds closer to the city was included, while the Hirschau (also meaning
"deer enclosure", lower and further north, was not originally part of
the plan. Nor was a more densely wooded part to the south known as the Hirschangerwald. The whole area had been subject to flooding from Munich's river, the Isar, a
little to the east. This problem was soon removed by the construction of a
river wall in 1790, which became known as the "Riedl-Damm" after the
engineer Anton von Riedl, who had supervised its construction.
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