Landscape garden Hohenheim, Stuttgart

The "Hohenheim Landscape Garden" connects the State Arboretum and the Botanical Garden, which in turn are inserted into a restored, historical system of avenues/rows of trees. In the basic character of a near-natural landscape garden, spatial connections, seamless transitions and essential visual relationships were created.

The Hohenheim Landscape Garden is part of the "Hohenheim Gardens", former ducal gardens and parks, which today serve as a state arboretum, botanical garden and research facility of the University of Hohenheim.
They are in turn inserted into a structure of local connecting avenues and rows of trees as an essential expression of large-scale and formative landscape design.

The part of the park completed in 2001 connects, extends and complements the existing areas of the Exotic Garden (State Arboretum) and Botanical Garden (development of agriculture, palace garden).
In the basic character of a near-natural landscape garden, spatial connections, seamless transitions and essential visual relationships are established.
It is a scientific facility for teaching and research, but at the same time serves the recreation and stay of the population through its public accessibility.

Design features include extensive terrain modeling that created connections in the first place, while also providing noise protection and, most importantly, two distinct landscape markers.
These are both destination, attraction and vantage points, as well as an important component of a system of visual relationships and axes within the park as well as outward into the landscape and on surrounding facilities and buildings.

Spatially, this is consistently supported by the type of vegetation use: a generous open center and stable space-creating plantings more at the edges.
The plantings themselves have been done according to predetermined scientific criteria with an attempt to integrate design aspects as well, by setting important individual trees as solitary specimens and grouping the other plantings in contiguous, large areas that are organically integrated into the terrain.
Stable herbaceous layers, developed from meadows and correspondingly themed in terms of design, support and shape the wooded areas.

The routing enables circular paths, access to the signposted planting quarters and connection to the existing system of walking and hiking trails in the surrounding area.

An essential component of the concept is the attempt to integrate elements of visual art from the outset.
First and foremost at the vantage points, the "classic" element of the staffage in the landscape garden is taken up and developed in the form of a column structure by Hans Dieter Schaal, which takes up the model of the Monopteros and further thematizes it.
Further columns mark lines of sight and establish mental-optical references to Solitude and Scharnhausen.

The realization of this park, conceived as an overall work consisting of terrain, spaces, vegetation, art, and references to the surroundings, has been made possible, among other things, by the fact that the use of excavated material has led to considerable cost reductions and, in addition, committed sponsors for buildings and parts of the vegetation have been won.