Weimar Schloss

The Belvedere Castle, Orangery, and Park forms part of the Classical Weimar World Heritage site designated by UNESCO in 1998. The castle was the summer residence Duke Ernst August. He made a baroque garden which began to evolve into a landscape park after 1758. Under Grand Duke Carl Friedrich, after 1811, a Russian Garden was made for his wife Maria Pawlowna. A botanical collection (the 'Hortus Belvedereanus') was made after 1820 with advice from Johan Wolfgang Goethe. In 1994 a circular Rose Garden was added, inspired by Humphry Repton's rosary design for Ashridge in England.