The Jenisch Haus
An 1834 villa as an interiors museum.
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It is a nearly continuous ribbon of parks and country houses running west of Hamburg along the northern bank of the Elbe, formed when the city's wealthy merchants built their summer seats there in the eighteenth century. You can walk through several successive parks in one route along the river, and Jenischpark is among the largest and finest.
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Jenischpark is among the finest English-style landscape parks in northern Germany, part of a chain of parks along the northern bank of the Elbe west of Hamburg — an area where wealthy Hamburg merchants built country houses in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to escape the noise of the harbour. The design dates from the early nineteenth century and follows the landscape principle: no symmetry, no geometric beds, but wide curving meadows and carefully placed groups of trees that open calculated views onto the river — you walk and suddenly see, between the trees, giant container ships passing on the Elbe, an odd and distinctive visual contrast. Two buildings stand in the park: the Jenisch Haus, an 1834 classical villa serving as a museum of nineteenth-century interior design with its furnished rooms, and the Ernst Barlach Museum in an old country house, showing the work of the German expressionist sculptor. The park itself is always free.
An 1834 villa as an interiors museum.
Expressionist sculpture in a country house.
Jenischpark, 22609 Hamburg