Gardens > Veitshöchheim Court Garden
From 1702 a flower garden was created which formed roughly a square around the "Summer Residence", the present palace. It was entered from the Dorfstrasse and on this side was designed around the main entrance and drive as the front garden of the palace. On the north side was a kitchen garden with a carp pond and on the south side a long garden full of trees, where pheasants and deer were kept.
In 1702/1703, under Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp von Greiffenclau (reigned 1699-1719), the pheasantry was transformed into a show garden. The balustrades, supporting and surrounding walls, main paths and lakes that are still in existence today date from this period. The first figure cycles, by Johann Wolfgang van der Auwera (1708-1756), were produced under Carl Philipp von Greiffenclau (1749-1754).
The present design of the garden, with all its variety, was begun in 1763 by Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim (1755-1779). He commissioned further figure cycles from the "most important German garden sculptor of the time", Ferdinand Tietz (1708-1777), who completed the task in just a few years between 1765 and 1768. The final cycle was created by Johann Peter Alexander Wagner (1730-1809) from 1772 to 1780.
After the death of Seinsheim, the importance of the garden was not fully recognized until the 1950s and 60s, when it was restored in its rococo form of 1779. This garden probably has the greatest variety of content and symbolic meaning of any in South Germany. The cosmological programme portrays the Prince-Bishop's palace as the symbol of heaven. The large, naturally growing trees by the palace, the large and the small lake and the circular bed were added in the 19th century.
Due to technical problems, the waterworks in the Veitshöchheim Court Garden are currently not in operation.
Echterstrasse 10
97209 Veitshöchheim
0931 91582
schloss.veitshoechheim@ bsv.bayern.de
The garden is open all year round from 8 am until nightfall (8 pm at the latest)
There is an audio guide for the court garden.
available in German and English; also as app for iPhone and Android (with costs)
Audio guide (including the exhibition on the history of the court garden in the palace):
2,50 euros regular
1,50 euros reduced
Admission free
April to October daily from 1 pm to 5 pm every hour on the hour
Veitshöchheim
www.bahn.com
Bus to 'Kirchplatz'
By ship from Würzburg to Veitshöchheim
Car park by the river Main
Schloss- und Gartenverwaltung Würzburg
Residenzplatz 2, Tor B
97070 Würzburg
0931 35517-0
Fax 0931 35517-25
sgvwuerzburg@ bsv.bayern.de
www.residenz-wuerzburg.de
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