State Garden Show Paderborn- Schloss Neuhaus

The Baroque garden was built by Prince-Bishop Clemens August von Bayern (1700 - 1761). The planning and construction of the garden was started around 1725 at the same time as the construction of the Marstall. The best known source is the copperplate engraving by F. C. Nagel published in the "Liborius Festschrift 1736". In order to be able to build the desired dimensions of the garden, the prince-bishop had the rivers Alme and Lippe diverted. The famous garden artist Hofkammerrath Hatzel from Vienna was called in to design the garden.

The basis of the reconstruction was an authentic inventory, which was made as a colored site plan in 1753 by the surveyor (surveyor) Phielip Sauer. The translation of the contemporary foot measure into our present-day metric measure succeeded after reviewing all sources of the different periods up to the original cadastre. The foot measure was determined to be 0.296 m (Viennese foot measure). The length of the main and secondary axes as well as supporting excavations to find the outlines of the moats confirmed this unit of measurement on site. With the beginning of the 19th century and secularisation, the garden fell into disrepair within a few years. For almost two centuries the castle island was used and changed as a military location. Building structures such as the town house and the schools do not allow a complete reconstruction of the castle garden. With the partial reconstruction only certain basic structures of the baroque garden could be authentically restored:
- the moat enclosing the moated castle
- the lateral lawn belts with the accompanying
- path axes and linden avenues
- as well as the Parterre à l'angloise
The heart of the Baroque garden is the Parterre à l'angloise, a parterre with English influences, which integrates lawns into the parterre in addition to buxus-framed flower borders, vegetal broderie ornaments, gravel surfaces and fountains. With a hard cut the authentic reconstruction in front of the town house had to be demolished. The foothills of the parterre lawns are reconstructed with basalt paving. The central axis of the garden ends in front of a vertical mirror wall, which gives the main axis purpose and double depth again. The water curtain with a fountain basin in front of the mirror wall and the octagonal ground plan of the "fountain theatre" transpose the idea of the former central fountain. The preservation and continuation of the monumental authentic target planning is secured by a park maintenance work.