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Gustav's Garden is the only one of the six former prince's gardens in Bad Homburg that has been preserved. In 1775, Landgrave Friedrich V Ludwig purchased the property and gave it to his wife Caroline to design. In 1822, Princess Louise Friederike, the wife of their son Gustav, took on the garden and created a small, dreamy paradise here in the style of English landscape gardening. In 1898, the Frankfurt banker Wertheimber purchased the property and built a magnificent villa on the site. After a chequered history, Gustavsgarten is once again an important part of the Bad Homburg garden landscape and the Villa Wertheimber is home to the Bad Homburg City Archives. But the park landscape on Tannenwaldallee is not just home to the past, but also to the future: at the lower end of the park there is a wonderful playground, which is very popular with children. (From: https://www.bad-homburg.de/de/erleben/entdecken/landgraefliche-gartenlandschaft/gustavsgarten)

Gustavsgarten Bad Homburg

Gustavsgarten Bad Homburg

Gustavsgarten Bad Homburg

Villa Wertheimber

Villa Wertheimber in Gustavsgarten, Bad Homburg. The 64,500-square-meter property at Tannenwaldallee 50 was sold by the descendants of Princess Caroline of Hesse-Homburg, later Princess Reuss of Greiz (1819-1872). The owner of the family summer residence was the Frankfurt private banker Julius Wertheimber (1855-1935) of the Bankhaus Wertheimber & Co., Taunusanlage 15, who had this villa built here for his wife Katharina (Ketty), his daughter Juliane and his son Eugen Julius, who was killed in the First World War in 1914. The owner named his villa Accatius after the acacia avenue on the property. The renowned Frankfurt architect Franz van Hoven (1842-1924) was the architect of the villa and gatehouse, built in 1900. He retained his city property in Frankfurt, Myliusstraße. The Wertheimber family grave can still be found in the Frankfurt main cemetery. (From: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Villa_Wertheimber.JPG)

Gustavsgarten Bad Homburg

Tannenwaldallee

Gotisches Haus Bad Homburg

Museum Gothic House The Gothic House is a hunting lodge in the Great Tannenwald, built in 1823 by order of Landgravine Elizabeth for her husband, Landgrave Frederick VI Joseph. After the landgrave's death in 1829, it was never able to take up its function and from then on served a wide variety of purposes. Its architecture was repeatedly adapted to its changing uses until it was completely destroyed by fire inside. After an initial renovation in the 1980s, the exterior was largely restored to its original form. Inside, the fire had destroyed everything. A multistory concrete and brick structure replaced the former single-story premises, which were divided into many separate rooms. In 1985, the Municipal Historical Museum, founded in 1916, moved in. The focus of its presentations was on the collections of the city and state history of Hessen-Homburg, as well as exhibits of cultural and art history. Special areas included a coin cabinet, the “Marienbader Stube” and the so-called “Hat Museum”, all created after 1945. In 2020, the Municipal Historical Museum in the Gothic House was closed and a new renovation began. It was equipped with an additional staircase, brought up to date technically and made climate-neutral. During the renovation, 40,000 objects from the collection remained temporarily in the “Schaudepot im Horex Museum”, accessible to interested parties at all times. Until then, the objects from our collection relating to the history of industry, in particular the history of mobility, were exhibited in the Horex Museum, which opened in 2012. The renovation of the Gothic House is coming to an end. The museum will reopen in 2025. Its façade is in the historic Tudor Gothic style, unique on the European mainland, whose “Gothic houses” in English landscape gardens (see Puschkin, Pulawy or the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz) quote German Gothic architecture, sometimes combined with other styles. The design of the façade of our Gothic House and the layout of the paths once again correspond to the original plans of Landgravine Elizabeth. The interior remains a functional building, and the latest museum technology will help to preserve the precious and often very fragile objects, made of a wide variety of materials, for future generations. From now on, all parts of the collection will be exhibited in the Gothic House in regularly changing forms of presentation. Special exhibitions will provide more in-depth information on the individual collection areas. The museum's offerings will be complemented by a museum café. (From: https://www.bad-homburg.de/de/leben/kultur-und-bildung/staedtisches-historisches-museum/museum-gotisches-haus)

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