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Schönbusch Landscape Park
Schönbusch Landscape Park
Open daily
Guided tours for groups can be arranged by the Aschaffenburg Tourist Information Office on your preferred dates at: www.tourist-aschaffenburg.de www.fuehrungsnetzaschaffenburg.de
Schönbusch Park in Aschaffenburg is one of the earliest and most important landscape gardens in Germany. Starting in 1775, the Elector and Archbishop of Mainz, Friedrich Karl von Erthal, had his former game reserve converted into a spacious English-style park. With the help of Count Wilhelm von Sickingen and architect Emanuel Joseph von Herigoyen, an artistic landscape of lakes, waterways and rolling hills was created.
The centrepiece of the complex is Schönbusch Castle, built between 1778 and 1782. The classicist summer palace impresses with its ten state rooms furnished in the Louis XVI style and can be visited as part of a guided tour. The ensemble is complemented by picturesque park buildings such as the Temple of Friendship, the Philosopher's House and the idyllic ‘village’. The park was largely completed by the famous landscape architect Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell. Here, he consistently applied the principles of landscape design he had learned in England for the first time. Today, the exhibition ‘Everything Seems Natural’ in the visitor centre in the former kitchen building offers a deep insight into this history.
See also: https://kirm.de/portal/Schloss%20Sch%C3%B6nbuschusch