The Jenisch park is the oldest landscaped park in

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, located in the

Othmarschen Othmarschen () is a quarter in the Altona borough of the Hamburg in northern Germany. In 2020 the population was 16,009. History The first records on Othmarschen are from 1317. Together with Altona, Othmarschen became a part of Hamburg in 1937/1 ...

quarter at the

Geest Geest is a type of landform, slightly raised above the surrounding countryside, that occurs on the plains of Northern Germany, the Northern Netherlands and Denmark. It is a landscape of sandy and gravelly soils formed as a glacial outwash pla ...

shore of River

Elbe The Elbe (; cs, Labe ; nds, Ilv or ''Elv''; Upper and dsb, Łobjo) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Re ...

. Of the area of 43 ha (110 acres), 8 are a protected. Two museums,

Jenisch House Jenisch House (''Jenisch-Haus'') is a country house in Hamburg built in the 19th century and an example of Hanseatic lifestyle and neoclassical architecture. As of 2008, Jenisch House is the home of the ''Museum für Kunst und Kultur an der Elbe' ...

and

Ernst Barlach House The Ernst Barlach House – Hermann F. Reemtsma Foundation (german: Ernst-Barlach-Haus – Stiftung Hermann F. Reemtsma) is an art museum in Hamburg, Germany, devoted to the Expressionist artist Ernst Barlach. The museum was founded by the indu ...

, are located within the park. The river Flottbek flows through the park and into the Elbe at

Teufelsbrück Teufelsbrück (''Devil's Bridge'') is the name of the area around the mouth of Flottbek stream into River Elbe in Hamburg, Germany. It is located in the local subdistrict of Klein Flottbek and today belongs partly to the quarters of Othmarschen ...

History

Caspar Voght acquired the area along with further nearby fields near Flottbek village from 1785 to 1805.Reinhard Crusius, Paul Ziegler, Peter Klein: ''Chronologische Daten zu Caspar Voght, zu seinem Mustergut und zum Jenisch-Park und seiner Umgebung bis heute'', Hamburg 2015
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in German There were four parts: ''Süderpark'' (''Southern park'', today's Jenisch park), ''Norderpark'', (''Northern park'', today '' Loki-Schmidt-Garten'', Hamburg's botanical garden), ''Osterpark'' (''Eastern park'', today partly a golf course), and ''Westerpark'' (''Western park'', tree nursery intermittently, today ''Westerpark'' again). Voght had been inspired by the Leasowes estate of

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poet

William Shenstone William Shenstone (18 November 171411 February 1763) was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, '' The Leasowes''. Biography Son of Thomas Shenstone and Anne Penn, ...

. The area was planned as a rural or ornamented farm and a (model farm). He designed it along with landscape gardener .

References

External links

Jenisch park
at the Hamburg Environment Authority, in German
Jenisch park
at ''hamburg.de'', in German
Description
of the Association of the Friends of the Jenisch park, in German {{Coord, 53.5525, N, 9.8656, E, source:wikidata, display=title Heritage sites in Hamburg Buildings and structures in Altona, Hamburg Parks in Hamburg Tourist attractions in Hamburg 1790s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire