Botanischer Garten Rombergpark

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Botanischer Garten Rombergpark (Rombergpark Botanical Garden), or informally Rombergpark, is an extensive municipal botanical garden and arboretum in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With its total area of 68 hectares the Rombergpark is one of the largest botanical gardens in the world. It is always freely open.

History: The garden was established in 1822 as the Romberg family's English landscape park around their mooted castle Brünninghausen (Schloss Brünninghausen). It followed remodeling the house from 1817 in Classicist style, designed by August Reinking. The owner, Gisbert von Romberg I and his family commissioned a new garden concept around the house, carried out between 1817 and 1824 in English landscape garden style. It was designed, beginning in 1818, by Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe, who was court gardener in Düsseldorf. He had worked with Reinking before. The design is extant, held by the Abteilung Westfalen of the Landesarchiv NRW. Weyhe visited the site twice per year to inspect the work, to determine trails and the lake with an island, a bridge and the Bastei which remains. The leading gardener was Jakob Greiß, who later became director of the municipal gardens...