View from pergola onto palace, Chateau Park Branitz, Cottbus, Germany
Pergola, Chateau Park Branitz, Cottbus, Germany Branitz became possession of the counts of Pueckler in 1696. From 1784, the family lived in Muskau. The property was leased from this year on. After the sales of Muskau in 1845, where Hermann Fuerst of Pueckler-Muskau (1785-1871) had been creating a landscape garden since 1811, he returned to Branitz. In that same year, he began to work on the new park. The landscape park, which was created by him and completed by the successor Heinrich Graf von Pueckler (1835-97), is an artistic garden of international importance. The well-known writer and world traveller Fuerst Pueckler was one of the best-known German garden designers of the 19th century, alongside Peter Joseph Lenné and Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell. The Branitz park is a landscape garden with artistically differentiated park ranges, according to the 'zoning principle'. The 'internal park', which includes the economic and market gardens, is spread over an area of approx. 100 hectares. In addition to that, Fuerst Pueckler also arranged 'the exterior park' as an 'ornamental farm' in an area of approx. 600 hectares. He built a flower park with flower patches, plastics, further decorative elements and ornamental shrubs around the Schloss. Here Pueckler also used foreign wood, in the park however, he only used native plants. For the design of the park, Fuerst Pueckler used the high groundwater level and the river Spree, located nearby, in order to create an artificial water system in the park. With the excavation from the lakes and channels, he created the formatively completed relief of the park. The Schloss built in 1770-1772 is situated in the centre of the park. It accommodates the Fuerst-Pueckler museum with historical dwellings and an exhibition of the life and work of Fuerst Pueckler as well as the Cottbus collection of Carl Blechen's paintings. Opposite the Schloss, there is the Marstall with exhibition rooms and the 'Kavalierhaus', in which a restaurant is lo
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