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Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is a unique landscape park in Kassel, Germany. Art historian Georg Dehio (1850–1932), inspirator of the modern discipline of historic preservation, described the park as "possibly the most grandiose combination of landscape and architecture that the Baroque dared anywhere" (''"vielleicht das Grandioseste, was irgendwo der Barock in Verbindung von Architektur und Landschaft gewagt hat."''). The area of the park is , making it the largest European hillside park, and second largest park on a mountain slope in the world. Construction of the ''Bergpark'', or "mountain park", began in 1696 at the behest of the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel and took about 150 years. == Location == , a ''Stadtteil'' of Kassel in northern Hesse, is situated west of the city centre on the foot of the Habichtswald hill range. It is also known for Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe station on the Hanover–Würzburg high-speed railway line. The park comprises an area of about , stretching up to the Karlsberg mountain with the Hercules monument on the summit at . Originally laid out in the Baroque style of the giardino all'italiana and the French formal garden, with water features running downhill in cascades to Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, it was later re-arranged into an English landscape garden. Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is administrated by the State of Hesse and affiliated with the European Garden Heritage Network since 2009. On 23 June 2013 it was proclaimed as a World Heritage Site during the UNESCO meeting in Phnom Penh. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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