Schönbusch (Aschaffenburg)
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Schloss Schönbusch with lake
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| General information | |
| Type | Schloss |
| Architectural style | Neoclassicism |
| Address | Kleine Schönbuschallee 1 |
| Town or city | Aschaffenburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49°57′29″N 9°06′07″E / 49.958°N 9.102°E |
| Construction started | 1778 |
| Completed | 1782 |
| Owner | Bayerische Verwaltung der staatlichen Schlösser, Gärten und Seen |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Emanuel Herigoyen |
Schönbusch is a historic park and Schloss near the town of Aschaffenburg in the Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. The park was designed in the late 18th century as an English landscape garden for an Archbishop of Mainz. Various Neoclassical buildings, including the Schloss are scattered across the park. It is open to the public.
Schönbusch lies in a loop of the river Main, south-west of the town centre of Aschaffenburg in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia. The park's area is around 160 hectares. It is bordered in the north by the Bundesstrasse 26, across which is the Stadtteil (borough) of Aschaffenburg-Leider and the port of Aschaffenburg. To the west lies . To the east and south, Schönbusch borders Nilkheim, another borough of Aschaffenburg.
The area making up today's park was previously a deer park of the Archbishops of Mainz, whose secondary residence was at Aschaffenburg. In 1775, work began on transforming the deer park into an English landscape garden, based on the ideas of Wilhelm von Sickingen, minister to Archbishop Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal. It was thus one of the earliest examples of this style of park in southern Germany. A document from 1776 refers to the area as Schönbusch for the first time. It was formerly known as Nilkheimer Wäldchen.
In the 1780s, Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell, court gardener at Schwetzingen and a leading garden designer of his time, was appointed to complete the garden.
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