The Jenisch Park is the oldest landscaped park in

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, located in the

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quarter at the

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shore of River

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. Of the area of 43 ha (110 acres), 8 are a protected. Two museums,

Jenisch House Jenisch House (''Jenisch-Haus'') is a country house in Hamburg built in the 19th century and an example of Hanseatic lifestyle and neoclassical architecture. As of 2008, Jenisch House is the home of the ''Museum für Kunst und Kultur an der Elbe'' ...

and

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, are located within the park. The river Flottbek flows through the park and into the Elbe at

Teufelsbrück Teufelsbrück (''Devil's Bridge'') is the name of the area around the mouth of Flottbek (Elbe), Flottbek stream into River Elbe in Hamburg, Germany. It is located in the local subdistrict of Klein Flottbek and today belongs partly to the quarters ...

History

Caspar Voght Caspar Voght (17 November 1752 – 20 March 1839), later Caspar Reichsfreiherr von Voght (more commonly known as Baron Caspar von Voght), was a German merchant and social reformer from Hamburg (today Germany). Together with his business partn ...

acquired the area along with further nearby fields near Flottbek village from 1785 to 1805.Reinhard Crusius, Paul Ziegler, Peter Klein: ''Chronologische Daten zu Caspar Voght, zu seinem Mustergut und zum Jenisch-Park und seiner Umgebung bis heute'', Hamburg 2015
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in German There were four parts: ''Süderpark'' (''Southern park'', today's Jenisch park), ''Norderpark'', (''Northern park'', today ''

Loki-Schmidt-Garten The Loki-Schmidt-Garten, also known as Botanischer Garten Hamburg, or, more formally, as Botanischer Garten der Universität Hamburg or Biozentrum Klein Flottbek und Botanischer Garten, is a botanical garden maintained by the University of Hambur ...

'', Hamburg's botanical garden), ''Osterpark'' (''Eastern park'', today partly a golf course), and ''Westerpark'' (''Western park'', tree nursery intermittently, today ''Westerpark'' again). Voght had been inspired by the Leasowes estate of

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poet

William Shenstone William Shenstone (18 November 171411 February 1763) was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of History of gardening#Picturesque and English Landscape gardens, landscape gardening through the development of his estate, ''The ...

. The area was planned as a rural or ornamented farm and a (model farm). He designed it along with landscape gardener .

References

External links

Jenisch park
at the Hamburg Environment Authority, in German
Jenisch park
at ''hamburg.de'', in German
Description
of the Association of the Friends of the Jenisch park, in German {{Coord, 53.5525, N, 9.8656, E, source:wikidata, display=title Heritage sites in Hamburg Buildings and structures in Altona, Hamburg Parks in Hamburg Tourist attractions in Hamburg 1790s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire