Grüneburg park

This guide to Grüneburg park in Frankfurt centers on the oldest building still standing here, an orangery that spent its first century sheltering the Rothschild family's potted citrus trees through German winters, on grounds Amschel Mayer von Rothschild bought in 1837 and later had reshaped by the same landscape designer behind the Palmengarten across the road. It follows the building through Allied bombing in 1944, which flattened the family's grand palace but left the scarred orangery standing, and to the Orthodox Greek congregation that took over the ruin after the war and rebuilt it largely by hand. Look for it near where the meadow meets the trees by the Korean garden.