Fasanerie, Historic park and heritage monument in Aschaffenburg, Germany
Fasanerie is a woodland park on the edge of Aschaffenburg, stretching from Park Schöntal across Großmutterwiese to Lufthofweg. The grounds contain a former hunting lodge with a beer garden, a fitness course, and a children's playground set within the forest.
The park was laid out in 1779 by Archbishop Friedrich Carl Joseph von Erthal, following plans drawn up by Emanuel Joseph von Herigoyen, as a game reserve with fish ponds. The overall layout of that hunting landscape has remained largely unchanged since then.
The name Fasanerie refers to the pheasant breeding that once took place here for courtly hunting purposes. Today, a memorial to Ferdinand Anton von Andrian-Werburg stands in the park and can be found along one of the main paths.
The Fränkische Marienweg long-distance trail runs through the park, and a green bridge built in 2013 carries paths west over the Ringstraße and the Aschaffenburg–Miltenberg railway to the Großmutterwiese. The network was restored after 1968 under a ten-year plan by garden director Christian Bauer. The Fasanerie lake is fed by the Röderbach.
A stone block near a rock formation by the path from Moltkestraße stood upright until 1943, when it was part of what appears to have been a reconstructed menhir arrangement on the rocky knoll. The small square around the Andriansplätzchen memorial recalls a duel fought here on 6 September 1824, in which the 17-year-old forestry candidate Ferdinand Anton Freiherr von Andrian-Werburg died of sword wounds.
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