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The palace park measures 612,000 square metres. On the occasion of the EUROGA 2002 plus several sections of the park were carefully restored with great attention to detail. Consequently, visitors can not only go for a stroll in the summer and hunting garden (Lust- und Jagdgarten) just as people did in the 18th Century, but in the former kitchen garden (the ”Potager”) they can also find out how the palace kitchen was supplied with herbs and fresh vegetables. The restored palace garden behind the Orangery, the remaining part of the old castle that was surrounded by a moat, gives an impressive image of the style of castle and palace gardens in the second half of the 17th Century. Parts of the park, which are shown with exhibits and texts in the Museum of European Garden History, can thus be experienced in their ”natural environment”. Combined guided tours through the Corps de Logis and Park as well as the Museum of European Garden History and Park provide visitors with a chance to gain insight into theory and practice of a form of art cultivated in Europe for thousands of years – garden art. The following motto of the Museum of European Garden History, a quotation from the Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore, also applies to the park:
” Fools hurry,
the clever wait,
the wise enter through the garden gate.”
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