PARK MUŻAKOWSKI NA LIŚCIE ŚWIATOWEGO DZIEDZICTWA

Title variants

EN

THE MUŻAKOWSKI PARK ON THE WORLD HERITAGE LIST

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

On 2 July 2004 a session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee held in Suzhou (China) decided to include Mużakowski Park (Muskauer Park) onto the UNESCO World Heritage List. The early nineteenth-century Mużakowski Park has an area of more than 700 hectares, located on both sides of the Polish-German frontier; on the Polish side it is situated in the town of Łęknica (528 hectares), and on the German side – in Bad Muskau (206 hectares). The Polish part of the park is administered by the National Centre for Studies and Documentation of Historical Monuments in Warsaw. The park was established by Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, who transformed his family residence into a sprawling park maintained in the landscape style. The realisation of the project, carried out in 1830-1845, involved Karl Friedrich Schindler, author of redesigning the park buildings, the painter August Schirmer, the architect John Adey Repton, and the gardener Jacob Heinrich Herder. The composition, inscribed into the natural interior of the river valley of the Nysa Łużycka, included the residence on the left bank of the Nysa, and the unrestrained lay out of a landscape park. The Mużakowski Park is the only European example of close inter-state cooperation undertaken for the sake of protecting and conserving a cultural landscape.

Keywords

PL

Park Mużakowski; Lista Światowego Dziedzictwa; Hermanna von Pückler-Muskau; Nysa Łużycka

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 2004
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 240-242

Dates

published

2004

Contributors

Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247