Garten de l’Aigle, Natural monument in Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Garten de l'Aigle is a roughly square park of about 1,800 m² on the Anscharhöhe grounds in Hamburg-Eppendorf, measuring some 38 by 48 metres. It preserves the remains of a three-part garden: a rose garden near the former house, a vegetable garden and a meadow of old fruit trees. The park is fenced except at its entrances.
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 park is fenced off except at its entrances and lies on the grounds of the Anscharhöhe diaconal foundation, next to a residential complex whose playground is separate from the park. Benches and information panels on the garden's history and its use after 1990 stand inside. The site is looked after by the Stiftung Denkmalpflege Hamburg.
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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