The Trebnitz Castle Park covers around 27 hectares and combines historic landscape design with an open, nature-oriented recreational space. Here, nature, history, and culture can be experienced in a unique place.
History of the castle park
The Trebnitz Castle Park extends today over approximately 27 hectares and traces its origins back to the plant enthusiast Georg Friedrich von Ziethen, who became the landowner in Trebnitz in 1707. As early as around 1736, the park contained almost all garden plants cultivated in Central Europe at the time, as well as several introduced rare species – a total of over 3,025 taxa, including exotic plants such as the tulip tree and the honeybush from South Africa.
This great diversity made the park well known beyond the borders of the region at the time. The plant collection was even documented by the famous botanist and later director of the Botanical Garden in Berlin, Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, and published in 1737 in the “Catalogus Plantarum Trebnitzii”.
At the beginning of the 18th century, the park was laid out in the Baroque style with strict geometric forms. With the rise of English landscape gardens in the 19th century, it was later redesigned into a more open park landscape with structured layouts and selected sightlines.
Catalogus Plantarum Trebnitzii
The only surviving copy of this catalogue is held in the University Library of Göttingen.
With the support of the library of ZALF Müncheberg, we were able to sponsor this work and cover the costs of its digitisation. This made it possible to make the work accessible to a wider public.
The catalogue can be viewed in the digitisation centre of the University of Göttingen at this link.
The catalogue can be viewed in the digitisation centre
of the University of Göttingen at this link
The “Park Heroes”
Since 2011, the citizens’ initiative “Park Heroes” has been committed to the preservation and revitalisation of the castle park in accordance with heritage conservation principles. The aim is to further develop the park as a place for local recreation, environmental education, as well as cultural and sporting activities.
All interested people are welcome to take part in the working sessions and thus actively contribute to the maintenance of the park.
Nest box sponsorships
Support bird diversity in the Trebnitz Castle Park by sponsoring new nest boxes – also available as a gift sponsorship.