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Thurah's Baroque Garden
Lauritz de Thurah's garden is basically a typical baroque garden, inspired by French ornamental gardening. It opens out from the main building and is laid out symmetrically around a centre axis. Thurah himself wrote that his garden was to be a pleasure garden, so it contained all that his age expected – and maybe a little more besides: arcades, fountains, trees from southern Europe in tubs, a battery of 10 canons and 21 statues. The avenues formed fields or 'quarters', and the trees of the avenues stood in trimmed hedges of hornbeam. Originally, there was even a 'menagerie' and a summerhouse.
The garden, however, was also to serve a practical purpose. Thurah wrote: 'This does not only serve me as a source of summer pleasure and to lighten my mind at times from many onerous and annoying official duties – it is even of use and benefit.' By the mid-19th century, the last visible remains of Thurah's Baroque Garden must have disappeared. Only the lime trees remained. Instead, a landscape garden was laid out in the English style.
Work of re-creating Thurah's garden began in Autumn 2001, with financial support from a number of funds. The re-establishment was completed in 2008 with the laying out of an embroidery parterre and the insertion of 17 sculptures.
Restoration of the baroque garden by Schul & Co, 2003.
Re-creation of the embroidery parterre by Kirsten Lund-Andersen, 2008. |
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