Bad Driburg Gräflicher Park – A spring walk

Spring is a time to take a spring walk through Bad Driburg's Count's Park. You don't have to be in the Hotel stay. Instead, you can pay the entrance fee to Bad Driburg's Count's Park and enjoy the parks on a walk. When the tulips and daffodils are in bloom, you look forward to sunny days. Then one likes to take the time to explore the themed gardens and park areas that have been laid out between and around the hotel buildings. There is a lot to discover.

 

 

Spring walk through the landscape park

The English-style landscaped garden is privately owned. The Count's Park Bad Driburg belongs to the family of the Counts of Oeynhausen-Sierstorpff, who also run the hotel resort with their Wellness and spa facilities belongs. The garden is the main attraction of Bad Driburg. The landscape park is part of the European Garden Heritage Network and is therefore one of the gardens in Europe that is worth a visit. This also includes gardens in North Rhine-Westphalia, im Pays de la Loire in France, in England and in other regions of Europe. The aim of this association is the preservation of parks, gardens and green spaces.

 

 

Trees in the Bad Driburg Gräflicher Park

In the park you will find trees that have been growing here since the 18th century. Chestnuts, lime trees and oaks grow along the avenue. This continues in a promenade between the hotel buildings and bathhouses. The theme gardens were created by landscape architects.

The themed gardens include:

• The rose garden from 1932
• The Meadow of Lilies by Gilles Clément
• The garden chapel and the peacock bridge at the duck pond
• The hedge garden
• The Hölderlin Grove
• The Diotima Island
• A wildlife park
• The duck pond
• The mausoleum of the count family
• The perennial and grass garden
• The maze

 

Bad Driburg Gräflicher Park with fountain house

The fountain house stands in the center of the park. Here visitors can try the medicinal waters that made Bad Driburg a medicinal bath. The long foyer invites you to stroll. The building was constructed on this site from 1822 to 1824.

 

 

Even if you don't want to try the healing waters, a detour to the foyer is worthwhile. There is also a reading room in a side wing. There you can find out about the offers in the bathhouses and in the hotel in brochures.

 

Hedge garden in Bad Driburg Gräflicher Park

Before you continue to the wildlife park, it is worth making a detour to the hedge garden. This is behind the fountain house. Hornbeams surround a water mobile. It is by Angela Conner, a sculptor from England.

 

Wildlife park with herd of fallow deer

Back at the square in front of the fountain house, we turn left. The path leads past bathhouses and hotel buildings to the park area, where the herd of fallow deer from the Count's Park in Bad Driburg roams. The animals roam freely across the site. Visitors can get quite close to them.

 

 

However, we turn right and walk past Hölderlin Grove and Diotima Island back to the hotel. There we finally enjoy the spring blossoms in the flower beds around the hotel building.

 

Opening hours:

The park is accessible from April to October for an entrance fee.
09:00 - 18:00 pm

• Adults €7,50 (this includes a credit of €2,50)
• Admission is free for children up to the age of 14

The credit can be redeemed in the hotel's restaurants on the day of the visit.

Visitors to the Piet Oudolf Garden have free entry for up to 30 minutes (only via the south entrance/ticket office).

Guided tour of the park €5 pp
Every Tuesday at 14:30 p.m

Registration is possible via the guest service center:

Phone +49 52 53 95 23 – 700
gaeste-service@graeflicher-park.de

Monday - Friday
09:00 - 12:00, 13:00 - 16:00
Saturday
09:00 - 13:00 pm

 

 

 

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