Volksgarten Düsseldorf
Nineteenth-century landscape park of ponds, avenues and meadows, oldest part of a vast southern park.
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This guide to the Volksgarten in Düsseldorf treats the park as something manufactured rather than grown. It follows the land from an aristocratic estate bought by the city in the eighteen nineties, through a neglected gravel pit and scrapyards in the nineteen sixties, to the Federal Garden Show of nineteen eighty-seven. Along the way it turns to a field of station clocks by the artist Klaus Rinke. Start by the pond near the Emmastraße entrance.
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