Garten de l’Aigle, Natural monument and park in Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Garten de l'Aigle is a natural monument and park in Hamburg-Eppendorf with a square layout where fruit trees from the early 20th century still grow. The site contains three distinct sections: a rose garden, a vegetable area, and a fruit tree meadow arranged side by side.
The garden was founded in 1888 by Alexander de l'Aigle as a private project. Its three sections grew from ideas about garden design that were spreading through reform movements in the late 1800s.
The garden reflects early ideas about how to organize space for both beauty and food production, with roses, vegetables, and fruit trees arranged together. You can still see how these sections connect and how people once moved through them during daily work.
The garden sits on the grounds of a senior residence and is open to visitors with benches for resting and information panels throughout. Since it is a protected monument with historic plants, visitors should follow guidelines to help preserve the site.
By 1948, more than a third of the fruit tree varieties growing here had vanished from the rest of Europe. This makes the diversity of varieties still preserved today a rare collection of old types.
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