Poems by Nature: A Testimony to Early English Garden Art in Saxony.

Landscape as arranged nature reached its preliminary climax in the 18th century with the concept of the English Garden. One of the earliest German examples of an English garden can be found in the Saxonian valley of Seifersdorf, created by Countess Christina von Brühl between 1781 and 1791. Landscape was designed as a source of health, well-being, mental stimulation, and enlightened education. In context with aspects of modern spatial planning, the oeuvre of Countess von Brühl appears under a new light, i.e. as an example of an aesthetic-therapeutic landscape.