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.

Aerial view of an axial formal garden with geometric paths and planted compartments.
The Great Garden at Herrenhausen seen from the south. Photograph by Carsten Steger / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.Carsten Steger / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Bildquelle · Zuschnitt

Aus der Quelle

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.

Redaktionelle Einordnung

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.

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Consult Hannover’s plan and visitor information before travelling. Decide which parts of Herrenhausen you want to see and check any separate admission or access arrangements, especially for buildings and events.

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