Picnic in the garden dreams - Park Briest

Briest has been owned by the von Bismarck family since 1345, initially as a front work to the family castle Burgstall with Letzlingerheide, expanded after the permutation and extended to the manor with Ritterkapelle. Formerly the Castle in the green" , the manor house was built in late Renaissance style of oak truss.Forestry and agriculture determine life (t) in the estate.
Since 1819 with a English Garden Designed in the sense of Schoch by the master gardener Christian Schaumburg, who also designed parts of the Herrenhäuser Gardens in Hanover. He used elements from English and French landscape parks one.
1945 expropriated by the regime of the new government of the GDR, decayed over decades. After the fall of the Wall, agriculture was leased back in 1993 by BVVG and the city. Private purchase of forest and land of the former areas.
Since over 25 years of restoration by the family of Bismarck.2008 Award with the Monument prize of the state of Saxony-Anhalt.
Hourly visits and guided tours
- In the English landscape garden with burial ground (stones)
- In the manor house, ua in the historic rooms of the district council