Dycker Feld energy and adventure landscape Center for Garden Art and Landscape Culture

A mature castle park "meets" a modern landscape garden in Chinese reeds - we have created a forward-looking green space here in an innovative and respectful way. In 2002, the Centre for Garden Art and Landscape Culture / Decentralized State Garden Show was created on the 24-hectare former farmland. The park has emerged solely and explicitly from the reference to its former use and its surroundings.

Rectangular areas of miscanthus characterize the appearance and form the spatial structure. There are large lawns between the reed structures. Together with the radiating anthracite-colored paths, these form the central visual axes and connections as green ribbons. The backbone of the Dycker Feld is a historic avenue of chestnut trees. There are 24 garden rooms in the Chinese reeds. Free-standing in spring, these "sink" into the growing miscanthus over the course of the year. The park and the plant itself change over the course of the seasons, constantly opening up new worlds of experience.

The use of miscanthus is our central aesthetic guideline. At the same time, reed is a renewable and energy supplier. In a biomass power plant, the harvest covers the entire annual requirements of the castle complex.

AppreciationGerman Landscape Architecture Award 2003

Jury verdict: With the Dycker Feld, a counterpart to the historic castle grounds was created with new means, which will be preserved in its solitary position. The avenue of the old castle park forms the backbone of the new design, Chinese reed is the determining design element and creates ever new spatial impressions through its rapid growth throughout the year. It should be emphasized that the Chinese reed, as a renewable raw material, is mown in autumn and recycled.