Overview
The Japanese Garden at Blühendes Barock Ludwigsburg is a small Japanese-style garden within the permanent garden show around Ludwigsburg Palace. The official Blühendes Barock garden guide states that the Japangarten was laid out in 1979, continuing the older palace-garden tradition of drawing on garden ideas from foreign cultures.
History
Blühendes Barock itself opened as a permanent garden show in 1954, after the palace gardens had been redesigned for the 250th anniversary of Ludwigsburg Palace and the city. The Japanese Garden was added later, in 1979, as one of the themed garden areas within the wider garden show.
A secondary Japanese-garden source states that the garden was created in 1979 for the 25th anniversary of Blühendes Barock, covered about 900 m², and was designed by the Tokyo landscape architect Yoshiyuki Kawamura. The designer and area should be treated as source-based but less widely corroborated than the official 1979 date.
Design features
The garden is presented as a place of calm and reflection inspired by Japanese garden art, with forms intended to follow simplified natural patterns. It is located near the Schüsselesee area, and a separate bonsai display is presented behind the Japanese Garden during the garden season.
Garden elements
Enclosures
Waters and islands
Stones
Other elements
Current status
Extant Japanese garden within the Blühendes Barock permanent garden show. It is accessible as part of the ticketed palace garden complex and includes a small bonsai display area nearby during the garden season.