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OVERVIEWMAP HARBKE MÖCKERN BLANKENBURG (HARZ) BEAU T Y 6 13 19 IS SO CLOSE! Harbke Palace and Garden Wendgräben Castle and Park Blankenburg Palace and Baroque Gardens We are enchanted by parks and gardens. They how the gods have allowed the princes to create a This originally baroque pleasure garden was take us on a journey further towards paradise. dream around them.” He experienced this garden turned into a 6-hectare landscape park from 1760. As a former stately home, Wendgräben Palace was This trip can be short or long – it is certainly a dream on 14 May 1778. At this time, the “Harbkesche wilde Baumzucht” constructed in 1910 in the style of English coun- pleasure. Even if we often look full of longing at (“Harbke wild arboriculture”) was particularly try homes. The park is an excellent example of a GARDEN DREAMS – the blooming and fragrant oases in Italy, France EXPERIENCE GARDEN DREAMS important as a national plant supplier. Valuable country house park from the early 20th century. A HISTORICAL and England – beauty is so close! WITH ALL YOUR SENSES groves from this period have been conserved major feature is the North-South axis going out to the present day. The orangery, built in the from the palace, which makes the palace visible PARKS IN SAXONY-ANHALT 50 WONDERFUL GARDEN SITES The Garden Dreams welcome their visitors – with neo-gothic style, is now a concert venue and café. from a long way off. entertaining guided tours, imaginative festivals, In the direct vicinity of the historical old city lies The Garden Dreams initiative of the state of unforgettable concerts, exquisite readings, stim- August-Bebel-Straße, 39365 Harbke ::: OPENING TIMES: park freely accessible all year Gezeiten Haus Schloss Wendgräben, Wendgräbener Chaussee 1, 39279 Möckern/Wendgräben the approx. 107 ha ensemble of the Blankenburg www.gartentraeume-sachsen-anhalt.de Saxony-Anhalt comprises 50 historical parks and ulating exhibitions and many other events in the GUIDED TOURS: on request ::: CATERING: orangery café (May to Oct., Sat., Sun. and holidays), tel. +49 171 5748796 OPENING TIMES: Spalace and garden areas at the palace: private, can only be visited on public guided tours, Palace Gardens. Above the Small Palace is the gardens. With loving carefulness and attention, shade of old trees or in the ballrooms of castles INFORMATION: tel. +49 39406 203 or +49 170 1426742, www.gemeinde-harbke.de external park area: can be visited all year, admission free baroque terraced garden with its bubbling water GUIDED TOURS AND INFORMATION: experts have chosen from more than 1,000 listed and manor houses. With around 600 dates a year, tel. +49 39245 69800, www.gezeitenhaus.de axis. Adjacent to this are the hill garden with the parks and public gardens. The majority of them there is something for everyone! teahouse, the Upper Mill and the Large Palace. have been renovated and restored during the past www.gartentraeume-sachsen-anhalt.de HUNDISBURG ILSENBURG (HARZ) The modern pheasant garden, landscaped palace few years, in accordance with historical docu- 7 Hundisburg Palace and Baroque Garden, 14 Ilsenburg Abbey and Palace Garden (Harz) park, and zoo round off this unique ensemble. ments. Around 2 million visitors a year make sure Althaldensleben Landscape Park Schnappelberg 6, 38889 Blankenburg (Harz) that they do not miss this opportunity, and treat OPENING TIMES: Small Palace (tourist information): May-Oct Mon-Sat 10-17:00, Sun/holidays 14-17:00, themselves to a feast for the eyes and soul. Nov-Apr Mon-Fri 10-17:00, Sat 10-15:00, Large Palace: March to Dec Tue-Sun 10-16:00 GUIDED TOURS: Moonlight Tour: May to Sep Wed 21:00, other tours on request, tel. +49 3944 362260, THE CROWNING Ilsenburg Palace Park was designed along the lines Large Palace: March to Dec Sat 14-16:00 and on request of English landscape gardens of the 19th century. A CATERING: restaurants, hotels and guesthouses in the direct vicinity of the park INFORMATION: tel. +49 3944 362260, www.blankenburg-tourismus.de, www.rettung-schloss-blankenburg.de The high point of a Garden Dreams journey LEGEND PICTOGRAMS: special feature is the gentle transition into the ad- through Saxony-Anhalt are the seven parts of jacent woodland. The old network of trenches and the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm. Honoured by paths can still be easily recognised. The area of the With its baroque garden and the adjacent land- UNESCO with the title “World Heritage Site” in Garden Dreams Highlights palace and abbey is among the cultural highlights scape park, which extends to Althaldensleben HALBERSTADT 2000, this unique cultural landscape attracts ad- of Ilsenburg. 20 Abbey 2 km away, the Hundisburg Palace forms Spiegelsberge Landscape Park mirers from near and far, who cannot get enough Baroque Garden a total ensemble of national importance. The of Wörlitz’s combination of beauty and useful- Schloßstraße 26, 38871 Ilsenburg (Harz) opulence and splendour of the baroque garden, OPENING TIMES: palace gardens: open to the public all year, abbey: Nov-March 11-15:30, April-Oct 9:30-16:30 ness. Or as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote Landscape Park size and landscaped beauty of the park, and more GUIDED TOURS: can be booked as required under tel. +49 39452 80155 ::: CATERING: café in the palace to Charlotte von Stein, straight to the point: than 150 domestic and foreign types of trees make INFORMATION: tel. +49 39452 19433, www.ilsenburg.de, www.klosterilsenburg.de From 1763, the cathedral dean E. L. Ch. Spiegel had “Yesterday, in the evening, as we strolled around Park with Botanic Abundance a visit an enticing prospect at any time of year. The the current Spiegelsberge afforested and step by the lakes, canals and groves, I was very moved at palace houses numerous cultural amenities and DRÜBECK step had the park architecture constructed that offers high-quality musical events. 15 was typical for an early landscape park. Important Drübeck Abbey and Abbey Gardens buildings such as the hunting chateau with the Palace, 39343 Hundisburg world’s oldest giant wine barrel, the Belvedere OPENING TIMES: park freely accessible all year, palace info / shop: Sat/Sun and holidays 11-18:00 and viewing tower, and the hermitage have been Discover on request, exhibition at the palace: April to Oct. Sun. 14-17:00 ::: GUIDED TOURS: Sun. 14:00 and on request preserved. CATERING: Schlossrestaurant Hundisburg, tel. +49 3904 6683964 INFORMATION: the GARDEN DREAMS tel. +49 3904 44265 and 462431, www.schloss-hundisburg.de Spiegelsberge, 38820 Halberstadt ::: OPENING TIMES: park freely accessible all year, zoos in the immediate vicinity: May to Sep 9-19:00, Oct to April 9-17:00, with admission fee GUIDED TOURS: on request, tel. +49 3941 551815 ::: CATERING: Gästehaus Spiegelsberge, tel. +49 3941 621914 INFORMATION: tel. +49 3941 551815, www.halberstadt.de HANSESTADT OSTERBURG (ALTMARK) BURG (NEAR MAGDEBURG) QUEDLINBURG 1 8 Around the Romanesque abbey church of St. Vitus 21 Krumke Palace and Garden Parks and Gardens in Burg and the other convent buildings – now conference Quedlinburg Abbey Gardens venues among things – are the gardens of Drübeck Abbey. They were largely created in the 18th centu- ry. The abbey courtyard with its almost 300-year- In 1905 the factory-owner’s widow Albertine Flick- old lime tree, lovely rose garden, the blooming From the blooming gardens on the Quedlinburg schu bequeathed 175,000 marks to the town of Burg kitchen garden and the meditative gardens of the Schlossberg, one has splendid views of the tim- for the creation of a public park. With this money, canonesses offer a space to meet up, to reflect and ber-framed town of Quedlinburg (UNESCO World the Flickschupark, with its dominating pond, and the to enjoy the gardens. Heritage) and the other abbey gardens: the Abtei- historical Goethepark were created at the start of garten connects the centre of Quedlinburg to the 20th century. Between these is the vineyard, the Klostergarten 6, 38871 Drübeck the Brühlpark, a landscaped park with a baroque A gilded wrought-iron gate welcomes guests to highest elevation in the town. The state horticultural OPENING TIMES: gardens: freely accessible all year, St. Vitus’ Church: 6:30-19:00 ::: GUIDED TOURS: April to Oct Tue-Sat hunting star. The blooming of wild garlic in early Krumke Palace and Garden. This picturesque land- show will take place in all the park complexes. 14:00, Sun/holidays 11 and 14:00, Nov to March on request, group and costume guided tours on request, tel. +49 39452 94307 summer there is unique. scape park around the neogothic palace houses CATERING: café in the gardener’s house, (wine bar in the evenings) tel. +49 39452 94304, abbey kitchen (reservation required), INFORMATION: numerous relics from its previous baroque design. Bahnhofstraße, 39288 Burg (near Magdeburg) ::: OPENING TIMES: 21.4-7.10.2018 opening times of State Horticultural Show, tel. +49 39452 94330 ::: tel. +49 39452 94330, www.kloster-druebeck.de Abteigasse, 06484 Quedlinburg These include the Cavalier’s House, the Stone Cab- open to the public all year from 2019 ::: GUIDED TOURS: tours of the State Horticultural Show 2018, OPENING TIMES: parks freely accessible all year inet, the Orangery, numerous sculptures and the Booking on tel. +49 3921 6369290 ::: CATERING: Restaurant Rosenrot, Weinlaube, Café am See, GUIDED TOURS: on request, tel. +49 3946 905625 ::: CATERING: wide range of options famous boxwood hedge 400 years ago. Magical Bistro Albertine, tel. +49 172 3764600 ::: INFORMATION: tel. +49 3921 6369290, www.touristinfo-burg.de INFORMATION: tel. +49 3946 905625, tel. +49 3946 905717, www.quedlinburg.de spring blooms, rhododendrons and a beautiful autumn colouring make the park particularly MAGDEBURG WERNIGERODE BALLENSTEDT/RIEDER DISTRICT attractive. 9 Herrenkrugpark Magdeburg 16 Wernigerode Castle and Gardens 22 Roseburg Parkstraße, 39606 Hansestadt Osterburg/Krumke OPENING TIMES: park freely accessible all year round GUIDED TOURS: on request CATERING: Café Kavaliershaus Krumke, tel.