Greizer Park, Landscape garden in Greiz, Germany.
Greizer Park is a landscape garden in Greiz featuring open meadows, winding paths, a lake with planted islands, and diverse trees throughout its grounds. The layout includes flowerbeds and rest areas connected by main pathways that lead from the Summer Palace to different zones.
Around 1650 a garden was laid out beside the kitchen house at the later Summer Palace; between 1715 and 1769 Count Heinrich II had it rebuilt as a baroque pleasure garden and extended with the orangery and the palace. From the early 18th century Prince Heinrich XIII, then Heinrich XIX, turned it into an English landscape park, adding the porcelain rotunda, court theatre and Hammermühle. It opened to the public in 1830.
The park's name changed with politics: it was renamed "Leninpark" in 1950 and reverted to "Greizer Park" in 1990, before becoming "Fürstlich Greizer Park" after 2009. Legends about the grounds and its outlying areas are still told during guided tours and events. The main entrance was rebuilt as a companion project of the 2007 Bundesgartenschau in Gera and Ronneburg.
The park offers multiple entrances and maintains well-kept pathways throughout its grounds. Visitors should wear good footwear since terrain can be uneven and damp, especially near the lake.
The Binsenteich in the park's centre covers about eight hectares and is held by three dams; its outline is said to resemble an oak leaf. Around the whole park and its outlying sections, legends have formed over the centuries and are still told on guided tours and at events.
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