Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Weimar, Germany

The Great Grotto on the western southern slope of the park of Belvedere near Weimar is an artificial ruin built around 1815. Its basic body originated from the "Grotto with Water Jokes", which dates back to the reign of Duchess Anna Amalia, which was given the shape of a dilapidated chapel through which the wind howls through various expansions and conversions. An Aeolian harp once located on the balcony reinforced the impression. The design corresponds to the park architecture of the Romantic era. In a niche on the ground floor there is a wall fountain. The interior of the ground floor can be viewed through a lattice door. On the upper plateau, a gazebo offers a view of the Possenbach valley. A bridge over an arch leads up to it. In the 1970s and 1990s, their condition made safety measures necessary. In 2014, the restoration work on the Great Grotto was continued.

Wikipedia: Große Grotte (Weimar) (DE)

In the park of Belvedere (Weimar) near the road to Possendorf and Vollersroda is the ice house, built around 1863, with a stone bench and a basket of flowers. The flower basket is located opposite the stone bench. The stone bench has no backrest, but volutes on the seat. The legs are decorated with triglyphs. Both are made of sandstone. It was created during the reign of Grand Duke Carl Alexander, for whom this was the refrigerator, so to speak. After this, there were no more significant changes in the park of Belvedere.

Wikipedia: Eishaus (Weimar) (DE)

The Russian Garden is a section of the Belvedere Palace Park in Weimar, Germany.

Wikipedia: Russisches Heckentheater (Weimar) (DE)

The Baroque palace Schloss Belvedere on the outskirts of Weimar, is a pleasure-house (Lustschloss) built for house-parties, built in 1724–1732 to designs of Johann August Richter and Gottfried Heinrich Krohne for Ernst August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. The corps de logis is flanked by symmetrical pavilions. Today it houses part of the art collections of Weimar, with porcelains and faience, furniture and paintings of the eighteenth century. As the summer residence, its gardens, laid out in the French style in 1728–1748, were an essential amenity. A wing of the Orangery in the Schlosspark contains a collection of historical carriages.

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The nursery at Belvedere near Weimar is considerably larger than that of the park on the Ilm, which is located in the area of the Liszt House, because the demand for flowers is much greater than there and cannot be met by the orangeries alone. The founding of the nursery probably took place around 1730. The court gardener Johann David Gentzsch was commissioned to create gardens in 1730. Numerous flowers were also needed for this.

Wikipedia: Gärtnerei (Belvedere Weimar) (DE)