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French Garden, Celle

French Garden, Celle

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The French Garden (German: Französischer Garten) in Celle, in the German state of Lower Saxony, is a public park in the south of the historic old town or Altstadt. On both sides of a straight avenue of lime trees forming its east–west axis are flowerbeds, lawns, copses and a pond with a fountain. Its current appearance is no longer that of a true French Garden, but rather that of an English Garden. Laid out towards the end of the 17th century as a Baroque courtyard and leisure garden by French gardeners, Perronet and Dahuron, the gardens were given their present shape in the mid-19th century based on plans by the inspector of gardens, Schaumburg.

Aerial view of the French Garden
The Caroline Matilda Memorial made of Crottendorf marble at the East Gate

The French Garden in Celle is a protected historic garden.

52°37′14.9″N 10°4′58.5″E


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