English Garden (Meiningen)

The park was built in 1782/83 by the two landscapers S.F. and C.L. Buttmann (father and son) designed by order of Georg I of Saxony-Meiningen according to the sentimental-romantic understanding of nature of the Enlightenment. The focus was on the vastness of English landscape parks with large visual axes that direct the view of groups of trees, meadows, buildings and bodies of water. Today's face of the English Garden with numerous monuments to personalities of Meiningen's cultural history was essentially created in the 19th century at the suggestion of George II of Saxony-Meiningen.
Monuments and fountains:
for the poet Jean Paul; world's first monument to the composer Johannes Brahms; for the composer and court conductor Max Reger; War memorial for those killed in action in Ger./Frz. War 1870/71 Bechstein fountain; Swan fountain
Park architecture:
stone arch bridge with artificial ruins; Bodies of water with islands and memorial stones; Crypt chapel (1839) at the former cemetery

Source: meiningen.de/Tourismus-Kultur/Kultur-entsehen/Historische-Orte-und-Pers%C3%B6nitäten/Historische-Orte

The English Garden is a landscape park in the center of the southern Thuringian district town of Meiningen.

From 1782, Duke Georg I of Saxony-Meiningen had the park laid out north of the historic old town. It is one of the oldest and most interesting inner-city landscape parks in Germany.

The English Garden in Meiningen is a listed building. It is one of the few parks in Germany that still lives up to the original ideal of an English landscape park.
Source and further information: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englischer_Garten_(Meiningen)_

From 1782 landscaped landscape park in English style