Paffendorf Castle Park
Today's castle includes a 7.5 hectare park. In the 19th century, the castle park was created by redesigning an older garden.
Extensive water areas and numerous striking individual trees, among them old sequoias, gingkos and giant cedars, characterize the picture.
The forest teaching garden gives an impression of the flora of the Tertiary. Although there is little left of the subtropical vegetation of that time in our latitudes, descendants of primeval trees, shrubs and moor plants from other parts of the world provide visitors with a living picture of the Tertiary in the truest sense of the word. Two mighty Sequoia stumps, around 15 million years old, flank the entrance to the palace park as remnants of primeval flora. Their high natural content of tannic acid prevents decomposition over millions of years, so that they could be found in an open pit in good condition.