Herrenhausen Gardens
Herrenhausen is a group of gardens in Hannover. The city traces the Great Garden to a seventeenth-century pleasure garden and describes its expansion under Martin Charbonnier by 1714. The aerial photograph shows the Great Garden, one part of the wider Herrenhausen ensemble.
Herrenhausen — the Great Garden and its formal axes
The Great Garden gives Herrenhausen its clearest formal view. The aerial photograph helps make sense of a plan that is experienced on the ground through a succession of paths and compartments.
Hannover identifies a central parterre, a historic garden theatre and smaller themed gardens within the Great Garden. Its history traces the first pleasure garden to the area of the present parterre.
Use the long central line as a reference, then turn into the smaller compartments. The change from long sightline to contained planting makes the plan legible in a different way from the air.
Written by Le Roi du Jardin. It sets out what is documented, not what is worth seeing.
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City of Hannover — Great Garden and map factory-dossier-becba50834caa92c067d1e4d. Supplies: summary, editorial, media_review. Reliability 3/5.
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Identity and location cross-reference factory-dossier-becba50834caa92c067d1e4d. Supplies: summary, editorial, media_review. Reliability 3/5.
Original photograph and licence factory-dossier-becba50834caa92c067d1e4d. Supplies: summary, editorial, media_review. Reliability 3/5.
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