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Plan of the garden of Weissenstein (later Wilhelmshöhe), near Kassel

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Description: Plan of the garden of Weissenstein (later Wilhelmshöhe), near Kassel
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Description: The Architecture of Western Gardens: A Design History from the Renaissance to the...
The landscape garden of Wilhelmshôhe has a prominent place in the history of European garden design. The natural features of the site were in themselves exceptionally suited for the creation of an extensive park: the broad hillside of the Karlsberg which rises above Kassel, the seat of the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel seven kilometres away, has a plentiful supply of water and a volcanic soil,...
PublisherMIT Press
Related print edition pages: pp.317-319
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00122.042

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