This park, which stretches between the Augustusburg and Falkenlust palaces in Brühl, is an outstanding example of French garden design in Germany and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The French garden artist Dominique Girard created the impressive baroque gardens with their ornate broderie parterres from 1728. A stroll through these gardens is like a journey back in time. The fountain basins, mirror ponds and the filigree box ornaments of the ornamental beds, which look like embroidery (French broderie), are gems.
Away from the Baroque garden, Peter Joseph Lenné designed the Brühl park for Frederick William IV of Prussia as an English landscape garden, elements of which still dominate the wooded area today. Here, the basic mood is dominated by the picturesque alternation of tree areas and meadows. Irregularly curved paths and small streams lead to the water areas of the two island ponds.
The impressive avenues that line the baroque parterre area and the avenue of lime trees that leads to the Falkenlust hunting lodge offer plenty of space for strolling, romping and exploring. The park was carefully reconstructed by the Prussian Administration of State Palaces and Gardens according to the original plans and later reworked.
