Kloster Seligenstadt

The garden is adjacent to a former Benedictine abbey founded in 828. In the course of secularization, the abbey and gardens became the property of the Landgraves of Hessen-Darmstadt and are now owned by the state. Buildings and garden have been carefully reconstructed over the past two decades. The former convent garden is laid out with a geometrical parterre, its eight compartments planted according to the historical lay-out with vegetables, fruit and herbs. The garden also has a physic garden, the ‘Engelsgaertchen’ and the ‘Thiergarten’, all clustered around the abbey buildings and close to the river Main. The orangery, built in 1757, is a rare survivor of from this period. Together with reconstructed domestic facilities of monastic life, the gardens offer great insights into more than thousand years of the abbey’s history.