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unusual facts about English landscape garden


Oberdiessbach Castle

The only major changes occurred around 1720, when the gate house was converted into a prison and in the 1850s when the garden was redone in the English style.


Leberecht Migge

Migge viewed the prototype of the English landscape garden, a style common in Germany since its importation in the late 18th century (as evidenced by the Englischer Garten in Munich and the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm), as merely a bourgeois aesthetic ideal for urban green spaces, inadequate for the needs of the working classes inhabiting the increasingly crowded cities.


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