Schloss Kalkum
Neoclassical moated castle with an English landscape park, pond island and leafy lime avenue.
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This guide to Schloss Kalkum in Düsseldorf follows the landscape park Maximilian Weyhe laid out from eighteen-oh-eight, and the pastimes a widowed countess had built into it, from a bowling alley to a shooting range. It then turns to the wedding of eighteen twenty-two that the house was spruced up for, between Count Edmund von Hatzfeldt and his seventeen-year-old relative Sophie. Best heard on the path beside the long English Pond, looking toward its small island.
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