Jenisch park

The Jenisch park is the oldest landscaped park in Hamburg, Germany, located in the Othmarschen quarter at the Geest shore of River Elbe. Of the area of 43 ha (110 acres), 8 are a protected. Two museums, Jenisch House and Ernst Barlach House, are located within the park. The river Flottbek flows through the park and into the Elbe at Teufelsbrück.

Panorama of park and Jenisch house

History
Map of Jenisch park

Caspar Voght acquired the area along with further nearby fields near Flottbek village from 1785 to 1805.[1] There were four parts: Süderpark (Southern park, today's Jenisch park), Norderpark, (Northern park, today Loki-Schmidt-Garten, Hamburg's botanical garden), Osterpark (Eastern park, today partly a golf course), and Westerpark (Western park, tree nursery intermittently, today Westerpark again). Voght had been inspired by the Leasowes estate of English poet William Shenstone. The area was planned as a rural or ornamented farm and a Mustergut (model farm). He designed it along with landscape gardener James Booth.[1]

References
  1. Reinhard Crusius, Paul Ziegler, Peter Klein: Chronologische Daten zu Caspar Voght, zu seinem Mustergut und zum Jenisch-Park und seiner Umgebung bis heute, Hamburg 2015, PDF online, in German
  • Jenisch park at the Hamburg Environment Authority, in German
  • Jenisch park at hamburg.de, in German
  • Description of the Association of the Friends of the Jenisch park, in German

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