Muskau Park, English garden in Bad Muskau and Łęknica, Germany and Poland
Muskau Park is an enormous landscape garden along the Neisse River straddling Germany and Poland, with meadows, woodlands, and waterways spreading across both countries. It features a New Palace, multiple bridges, pathways, and distinct sections, each with its own character.
A prince named Pückler-Muskau purchased this area in the early 1800s and spent years reshaping it into a garden—a new way of thinking about how to design an entire region. His ideas came from travels to English gardens, where he learned how nature and art could work together.
The park demonstrates how humans can blend nature and architecture together: forests, open meadows, and built structures are not separated here but flow into one another. Visitors encounter small surprises throughout—a hidden grotto here, a lake there—showing how an entire landscape can be designed like a garden.
You can visit and explore both sides of the park freely—the German and Polish sections connect together. There are marked paths for walking, and those wanting more details can join guided tours or visit the palace.
A complex of cast-iron bridges, including the Carp Bridge, crosses waterways where different streams meet. These structures were engineering showcases of their era and reveal how landscape design also meant skilled metalwork and construction.
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