The Stadtpark und Botanischer Garten Gütersloh (15.5 hectares) is a municipal park with

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(3 hectares) located at Parkstraße,

Gütersloh Gütersloh () is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the area of Westphalia and the administrative region of Detmold. Gütersloh is the administrative centre for a district of the same name and has a population of 100,194 peo ...

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. It is a member of the

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and open daily without charge. The park was created between 1906 and 1909 to designs by garden architect Friedrich Wilhelm Schoedder (1855-1938), with the botanical garden added to its northeastern corner in 1912. A palm house was constructed in 1938 but destroyed in World War II; it has subsequently been restored and now houses a café. A

rose garden A rose garden or rosarium is a garden or park, often open to the public, used to present and grow various types of garden roses, and sometimes rose species. Most often it is a section of a larger garden. Designs vary tremendously and roses m ...

was created in 1941, followed by a

birch A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus ''Betula'' (), in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams. It is closely related to the beech- oak family Fagaceae. The genus ''Betula'' contains ...

grove (1950),

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course (1960),

orchard An orchard is an intentional plantation of trees or shrubs that is maintained for food production. Orchards comprise fruit- or nut-producing trees which are generally grown for commercial production. Orchards are also sometimes a feature of ...

(1990),

herb garden The traditional kitchen garden, vegetable garden, also known as a potager (from the French ) or in Scotland a kailyaird, is a space separate from the rest of the residential garden – the ornamental plants and lawn areas. It is used for grow ...

(1998), and sculpture garden (2000). Today the park retains its original design, broadly patterned upon an English landscape park, with an elongated axis, wide curving paths, lawns, and numerous trees, as well as a meadow flooded for

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in the winter. The botanical garden is laid out as a display garden, with geometric pools,

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s, and high

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s. The orchard contains a number of heritage fruit varieties including ''Westfälischer Gülderling'' and ''Schöner aus Wiedenbrück''.

References

* Matthias E. Borner, Daniela Tomann, ''Ab in die Botanik. Parkführer Stadtpark und Botanischer Garten Gütersloh'', Vox Rindvieh, Gütersloh, 2017 () * Doris Schulz, ''Entstehung, Entwicklung und Erweiterung des Volksparks in Gütersloh'', Universität/Gesamthochschule Paderborn, Abt. Höxter (Diplomarbeit), 1990/91. * Stadt Gütersloh, ''Gütersloher Grün. Ein Streifzug durch Parks und Grünanlagen zum 100. Stadtpark-Jubiläum'', 2009 ()

External links

Stadtpark und Botanischer Garten Gütersloh

Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (with maps)

European Garden Heritage Network entry

Garten Landschaft OstWestfalenLippe entry
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