The English Garden of Arlesheim

23 April 2019

The English Garden or Ermitage was created in 1785 by the chaplain Heinrich von Ligertz and Balbina von Andlau-von Staal (1736-1798). It is the largest English garden on Swiss soil and was a solitude romantique près d’Arlesheim.

The ruins of Birseck castle, the Felsentor, the old and the new mill, the tobacco press and the three ponds are important features of the garden.  French troops occupied the Prince-Bishopric and Arlesheim in 1793 and destroyed the castle. The ruins give the real English Garden touch today.

(Further information: www.ermitage-arlesheim.ch).