With brick 1B1A we enter the second hexagonal protocol placement in Germany. It was at Castle Borbeck’s park in Essen.
It is considered one of the oldest landscaped parks in the Rhineland. In the 18th century, the last prince abbess of Essen, Maria Kunigunde of Saxony (1776-1803), had the garden redesigned in the „English-Chinese“ style.
This included decorative elements such as a pavilion, a „Wirtshäusgen“ and a „Bauernhäusgen“ as well as an artificial ruin. In addition to this particular form of English landscape garden, the castle park also shows characteristics of a Baroque Garden to this day: the former cascade, lined by straight paths and leading axially towards the palace.
Whatever design elements may have been ‚in vogue‘ at the time: Ever since the prince abbesses began to transform the former beech forest into a woodland park in the 16th century
the park has always represented the wealth and power of the authorities as well as the cultural concepts of landscape art in England in China.