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Werneck Monument, English Garden

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Upper Bavaria

Werneck Monument, English Garden

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Werneck Monument, English Garden

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  • Location: Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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    June 20, 2025

    Hiking

    The Werneck-Denkmal, erected in 1838 in the Englischer Garten on the northeastern shore of the Kleinhesseloher See (near the Seehaus), honors Reinhard Freiherr von Werneck (1757–1842), a Bavarian lieutenant general and long-time director of the garden. King Ludwig I commissioned the design from the renowned architect Leo von Klenze, executed in white Kelheim shell limestone and with two flanking benches at a height of over six meters.
    An inscription commemorates his efforts, particularly the creation of the Kleinhesseloher See between 1799 and 1803.
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    October 10, 2021

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    Dedicated not to the founder of the garden, but to the builder of the lake.
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    October 8, 2022

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    1757 in Ludwigsburg - 1842 in Munich. 6 years (from 1798) director of the English Garden.
    He had been a colonel in the Bavarian Army since 1797. In the 18th …
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    Elevation 550 m

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    Location: Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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