From the 11th century until secularisation, Bernrieder Park belonged to the Bernrieder monastery of the Augustinian canons. After various changes of ownership, August von Wendland, Bavarian envoy to the French court, bought the entire former monastery property in 1852. From 1853 to 1863, he had the Munich head gardener Carl Effner and his son Carl-Josef von Effner plan and design the park south of the monastery in the style of an English landscape park with a charming alternation of meadows, bushes and solitary trees. Views of the lake and the chain of Alps were free through the “viewing windows”.

In 1914, Wilhelmina Busch, the 13th child born in 1884, the youngest daughter of the co-founder of the now world-famous Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis/USA, acquired from the von Wendland family – among other properties – the Bernried estate, and in 1941 also the park. She had the fisherman's hut on the lake shore in the southern part of the park converted into a so-called tea house, which still exists today and is rented out.

Her castle, which was built in 1937 and served as her residence, is located in Höhenrieder Park, north of Bernried.

In 1949, two years before her death, Wilhelmina Busch-Woods incorporated the southern part of her property as a park into a "public foundation under civil law" in order to "preserve it as a unique natural monument in its uniqueness and beauty for future generations".

The park has been under landscape protection since 1959 and has been listed as a monument since 1992 (see Bavarian Monument Atlas).

Source: bernrieder-park.de

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Bernd 68er

September 30, 2022

Currently inhabited by a family of a well-known sparkling wine producer.

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