The Rosarium Uetersen is a

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located in the ''Rosenstadt''

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, and is the oldest and largest rose garden in Northern Germany. Today's rosarium was created between 1929 and 1934, and opened to the public on the occasion of the 700 year festivities of Uetersen on June 23, 1934. The park, originally designed by

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Berthold Thormählen and three well-known German

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from Holstein, Mathias Tantau, Wilhelm Kordes, and Krause, covers at present over seven hectares, and is open to the public. During the last eighty years, the rose garden was altered several times due to weather influences, extensions, and reorganisations. The rose garden is updated regularly through the plantation of new cultivars, and today presents more than 900 rose varieties in 35,000 rose plants in all colour hues and aroma nuances with a focus on climbing and standard roses. The rose garden is laid out in a strict geometrical design around two ponds, the large and the small ''Mühlenteich'' (German for ''mill pond''). The larger one is divided by an island, called ''Hochzeitsinsel'' (''marriage island''), that can be reached through bridges from both sides. The park also holds a garden café, restaurant and hotel. Several rose cultivars were called either after the city or the rose garden itself, for instance the pink climber 'Rosarium Uetersen' (Kordes 1977), its two sports 'Uetersens Rosenkönigin' and 'Uetersens Rosenprinzessin' (both discovered by Kordes and introduced in 2009), and the cream-coloured climber 'Uetersener Klosterrose' (Evers/Tantau 2006).

Gallery

File:Uetersen rosarium kleinueberblick.JPG, Rose beds File:A View of Uetersen Rosarium HP 16622 edit.jpg, The larger ''Mühlenteich'' with the ''Hochzeitsinsel'' in the background File:Rosarium Uetersen 05.jpg, The ''Liebeslaube'' (love nest) File:Uetersens Rosenprinzessin (Kordes 2009).jpg, Rosa arbustiva 'Uetersens Rosenprinzessin' (Kordes, 2009) File:Rosarium Uetersen 10.jpg, Bridge to the ''Hochzeitsinsel'' File:Rosarium Uetersen 16.JPG, Pond

Literature

*Hanny Tantau, Hans-Peter Mühlbach (dt) und Carol Jesse (en) (Hrsg.): ''Rosarium Uetersen - Die ganze Rosenvielfalt in Wort und Bild''
Heide: Boyens Buchverlag 2009,

References

* Hans Ferdinand Bubbe: ''Versuch einer Chronik der Stadt und des Klosters Uetersen'', Band 2 (1938) (de) * Karl Weinhausen: ''Die Rose. Ihre Kultur und Verwendung'' (Ulmer Verlag, 1956) (de) * Agnes Pahler: Rosen: die große Enzyklopädie, Dorling Kindersley, Starnberg 2004, , Side 390 (de) * Klaus-Jürgen Strobel: ''Alles über Rosen'', Stuttgart: Ulmer, 2006, Seite 94,

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