Stadthagen City Garden

The Stadtgarten Stadthagen looks back on almost 500 years of history; In 1919, a princely palace garden from the Renaissance became a bourgeois city garden, which has been redesigned into a baroque complex for half a century.

Nice garden park, definitely much better in summer.

The Stadthagen city garden – it is located south of Stadthagen Castle in Lower Saxony – has an eventful history that dates back to the Renaissance period. For centuries it was a stately pleasure garden with a fountain, a pleasure house over the pond and a grotto. But in the early days it also served as a kitchen garden with its large stock of fruit trees and vegetable cultivation. In the 18th century it was remodeled in the Baroque style and in the 19th century it was partially leased to the citizens of Stadthagen. In the 1960s it was reconstructed as a baroque garden.
It is highly probable that the northern part of the garden was created as a palace garden, which lay to the south of what was then the wall, after the moated castle to the north of it had been rebuilt into today's Renaissance palace. Count Otto IV of Holstein-Schaumburg created this befitting residence, which became the model for many Weser Renaissance buildings. Later (1714) there is a report of a fountain in the castle park, on which the following text was written: “By the grace of God; Otto Grawe of Holstein, Schaumburg, Sternberge, Lord of Gemen, Anno 1573". Back in the 16th century, the largest part of the castle garden served as a kitchen garden for feeding the castle population, there were fruit trees, berry bushes, cabbage and vegetable cultivation.
Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadtgarten_Stadthagen