Jenischpark

This guide to Jenischpark in Hamburg follows two men's competing visions for the same ground at Flottbek: Caspar Voght, the merchant who spent decades building an English-style ornamented farm here, and Martin Johann Jenisch, the senator and banker who bought the debt-ridden estate from him in 1828. It traces what Voght was allowed to keep after the sale, and the neoclassical villa Jenisch commissioned from architects Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Franz Gustav Forsmann. Walk the paths now, and you're tracing both men's ambitions on the same slope.