Schlosspark Buch, Garden monument in Pankow, Germany
Schlosspark Buch is a garden monument in Pankow with broad green spaces, pathways, and native plants that form a recreation area in the Buch district. The grounds contain a structured landscape with different zones and features built over time in various phases.
A palace and park existed at Buch from 1607. Around 1670 Baron Gerhard Bernhard von Pölnitz had the palace remodelled and the grounds laid out as a Dutch Baroque garden with canals for fish farming. In 1724 Adam Otto von Viereck bought the estate, extended it, added an orangery and had the palace rebuilt to plans by Friedrich Wilhelm Diterichs. The von Voß family turned it into a landscape park between 1810 and 1820.
The park's name comes from the castle that stood here from 1607 until its demolition in 1964; only the baroque Schlosskirche remains. Julie von Voß, morganatic wife of Friedrich Wilhelm II, was buried in that church, and a memorial stone by Hans Christian Genelli stood in the park until 1956. Since 1987 the sculpture Mitwelt by Karl Blümel has stood on the former castle site.
The park lies directly by the S-Bahnhof Buch and is crossed by the Nord-Süd-Weg and the Pankeweg. The woodland east of the Pölnitzweg, part of the Natura 2000 area, must not be entered. Restoration since 2013 has rebuilt historic paths and watercourses, and the entrances at Alt-Buch and Wiltbergstraße were renewed.
The woodland east of the Pölnitzweg was never included in the park's planning, so it has grown undisturbed and is now off-limits to visitors. The park's designation as a Natura 2000 site is due to two beetle species, the great capricorn beetle and the hermit beetle, which live in the old oaks.
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