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3. Justification for Inscription
3. Bibliography
Altmann, [...]: Ein alter herrschaftlicher Garten. Der
königliche Hofgarten in Ansbach/vom kgl. Oberhofgärtner
Altmann. Separate print in: Die Gartenwelt, 7/1903, Nr. 17,
p. 193-199.
Erich Bachmann: Sieben Pläne zur Geschichte des
Ansbacher Hofgartens von 1723-1726. In: Jahrbuch für
fränkische Landesforschung, 23/1963, n.p.
Ulrike Ankele: Der Ansbacher Hofgarten im 18. Jahrhundert
(Mag.-Arb., Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-
Nürnberg, 1987). Erlangen 1987.
Graf Christoph Pfeil: Residenz Ansbach mit Hofgarten und
Orangerie (Mittelfränkische Studien). München 2005.
Bernd Ringholz: Die neue Orangerie im Ansbacher
Hofgarten In: Simone Balsam, John Ziesemer: Orangerien
in Europa. Vom fürstlichem Vermögen und gärtnerischer
Kunst (Hefte des Deutschen Nationalkomitees/ICOMOS,
Internationaler Rat für Denkmäler und Schutzgebiete, 43).
München 2007, p. 24-27.
Hermitage Bayreuth
Basic Facts
Location: Germany, state of Bavaria, city of
Bayreuth
Historical outline: from 1715 building of a
summer palace (”Altes Schloss“) by Johann
David Räntz for Margrave Georg Wilhelm,
conversion of the hunting park into a
hermitage and laying out of a garden with a
simple parterre, a cascade and wooded areas
with hermits’ huts; 1735 property signed over
to Margravine Wilhelmine, followed by an
extension of the old palace and a reshaping
and enlarging of the garden towards the west;
1737-1745 construction of “Lower Grotto”
with birdhouse (“Nymphäum”); 1749-1753
New Palace built with the central “Sun
Temple” and the “Upper Grotto”, laying out
of a hedge garden, mainly by Joseph Saint-
Pierre; from 1758 after the Margravine’s death
gradual decline of the garden; from 1789
simplification and partial landscaping of the
bosquet areas under Margrave Alexander;
from 1789 large-scale dismantling of berceaux
and arbour walks; from 1806 taken over, along
with the Margravate of Bayreuth-Kulmbach,
by Bavaria; early 19th-century digging of a
canal with a lock in the bosquet area; 1819
construction of a bark cottage for Duke Pius;
some degree of neglect in the late 19th and
20th-centuries; 1945 heavy war damage,
New Palace partly destroyed; from the 1980s
reconstruction of the upper hedge garden and
canal; 1983 excavation and reconstruction of
the cascade next to the Old Palace.