3. - Schlösser-Magazin

Date Title, author, source Content
1933 “Die Kunstdenkmäler des
Amtsbezirks Mannheim –
Stadt Schwetzingen“
edited by Kurt Martin
Verlag C. F. Müller, Karlsruhe
1933
1970 “Parkpflegewerk für den
Schwetzinger Schlossgarten“
(Gardens Management Plan)
by Christian Bauer and
Walter Schwenecke.
Archives of Baden-
Württemberg Castles and
Gardens (Bruchsal).
1987 “15 Jahre Parkpflegewerk
für den Schwetzinger
Schlossgarten – eine
Zwischenbilanz“
by Walter Schwenecke
In: Das Gartenamt, 36, 1987,
p. 7 ff.
1988/89 “Formschnitt der Bäume und
Hecken im Schwetzinger
Barockgarten – Gutachten
für die Oberfinanzdirektion
Karlsruhe“
by Clemens Alexander
Wimmer
Archives of Baden-
Württemberg Castles and
Gardens (Bruchsal).
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This work, part of a series of volumes on
monuments in the area, continues to supply the
basis of any serious examination of the history
of the Schwetzingen ensemble. Martin not only
researched and incorporated extensive source
material; he undertook an in-depth description,
documentation and analysis of the contemporary
state of the property. His texts are complemented
by extensive photographic material (Rudolf Beideck)
and numerous plans of the existing buildings by
the architect Wilhelm Schweitzer, documenting the
state of all the important buildings in the ensemble
around 1930.
Schwetzingen’s Gardens Management Plan was
one of the first gardens management plans to be
compiled in Germany. After discussing the history
of each part of the gardens and providing an
analysis of their existing state, the Plan lists specific
details of work to be carried out in order to ensure
a continued high level of conservation in the future.
The Plan was ratified in 1972 and implemented
for the most part over the following decades. The
current exemplary state of conservation of the
gardens demonstrates the quality of the Plan, which
served as a model for many subsequent gardens
management plans.
Walter Schwenecke, one of the authors of the
1970 Gardens Management Plan, discusses
the contemporary state of the gardens in this
preliminary report on the success of the Plan after
its partial implementation in the 1970s and 1980s.
This report by Clemens Alexander Wimmer, a
renowned expert in heritage gardens conservation,
deals with a topic of particular relevance for
Schwetzingen’s Baroque gardens, one that could
not be dealt with within the scope of the Gardens
Management Plan: the numerous topiaried trees
and hedges the gardens contain. Wimmer gives
proposals for dealing with individual issues and for
the proper maintenance of the gardens’ topiary.
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