Dreamy walk in the gardens

Name: Promenade rêveuse aux jardins
Start: 2022-09-17T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Jardins et parc du château

For the European Heritage Days, stroll through the park and gardens of Kolbsheim Castle, whose calm and serenity have inspired more than one...

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

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For the European Heritage Days, stroll through the park and gardens of Kolbsheim Castle whose calm and serenity have inspired more than one...

“I dream of the peace of your terrace, from which one can see the world without being of the world.” Jacques Maritain
The park, overlooking the plain of Alsace, is organized according to two main axes:

the upper terrace East-West, in front of the prospect of the castle
and the lower terraces in steps towards the South, facing the plain.

À propos du lieu

Jardins et parc du château

21 rue de la Division Leclerc, 67120 Kolbsheim

Bas-Rhin
Grand Est

According to diverse historic sources(springs), the current castle was built by 1703 by Falkenhayn on a site which would before have sheltered the old(former) castle of the Voltz d' Altenau and that of Müllenheim-Rechberg. Since 1874, it is the property of the family Grunelius. The castle was changed in the course of 19th and 20th s. The park would date the end of the 18th s.; destroyed during the war of 1914-18, then restored from 1920s, the park presents the big(great) path of arbour and paths connecting(binding) the regular gardens dominating the plain of Alsace in the environmental park coming down(falling) up to the channel(canal) of Bruche. Terrace gardens, adorned with topiary, of conifers and seats(sofas) of boxwoods around statues, keep(preserve) as well stories of spiritual adventure as lived Antoinette and Alexandre Grunelius in their friendship with the philosophers Jacques and Raïssa Maritain, which are buried in the cemetery of the village.