Energy and adventure landscape Dycker Feld Centre for Garden Art and Landscape Culture

Grown castle park "meets" modern landscape garden in the Chinese reed - innovatively and respectfully we have created a future-oriented green space here. In 2002, the Centre for Garden Art and Landscape Culture / Decentralised State Garden Show was created on the 24 hectare former farmland. The park emerged solely and explicitly from the reference to the former use as well as its surroundings.
Right-angled areas of miscanthus characterize the appearance and form the spatial structure. Between the spatial bodies of reed are large lawns. With the radiating anthracite paths, these form the central visual axes and connections as green bands. The backbone of the Dycker Feld is a historic avenue of sweet chestnuts. In the Chinese reed lie 24 garden rooms. Standing free in spring, these "sink" into the growing miscanthus in the course of the year. The park and also the plant itself change in the course of the seasons and open again and again new worlds of experience.
The use of Miscanthus is our central aesthetic guideline. At the same time, reed is a renewable and energy supplier. In a biomass power plant, the harvest covers the entire annual needs of the castle complex.

AppreciationGerman Landscape Architecture Award 2003

Jury verdict: With the Dycker Feld, a counterpart to the historic castle grounds was created with new means, which will be preserved in its solitary position. The avenue of the old castle park forms the backbone of the new design, Chinese reed is the determining design element and creates ever new spatial impressions through its rapid growth throughout the year. It should be emphasized that the Chinese reed, as a renewable raw material, is mown in autumn and recycled.