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Object information:

Feldafing

Feldafing Park and Rose Island

Address

Wittelsbacher Park 1
82340 Feldafing
(0 81 57) 49 49
fax (0 81 57) 49 49

Information

Bayer. Schlösserverwaltung/
Außenstelle Starnberger See
Max-Zimmermann-Straße 11
82319 Starnberg
(0 81 51) 69 75
Fax (0 81 51) 36 81 23
seeverwaltung.
starnbergersee@bsv.bayern.de

Opening hours

Open all year round

Admission charges

Admission free

Please note

The park and the island are open to the public. On Rose Island there are no dogs and no bicycles allowed.

Ferry service for wheelchair users to the Rose Island available; Several steps up to the "Casino"

S 6 from Munich to "Feldafing"

Ferry service from Park Feldafing to Rose Island (May-October) in good weather
For details please call
tel (01 71) 7 22 22 66
(Ferryman Norbert Pohlus)
www.faehre-
roseninsel.de

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Object description:

King Maximilian II of Bavaria enriched the existing Wittelsbach parks on Lake Starnberg with two masterpieces of garden design: Feldafing Park (from 1850) and Rose Island, begun four years later.

On the former fishermen's island of Wörth, the garden designer Peter Joseph Lenné created a fragrant rose paradise which was later to become one of Ludwig II's favourite places. Among the guests he entertained here were Empress Elisabeth of Austria, the Russian Tsarina Maria Alexandrovna and Richard Wagner.

Feldafing Park, which was laid out by the court garden director Carl von Effner opposite Rose Island, is popular for its splendid views of the countryside framed by old oaks and beeches, with Lake Starnberg and the Alps in the background. Plans for a summer palace on a hill in the park were abandoned with the early death of Maximilian II in March 1864.

Rose blossom on Rose Island

Picture: Rose blossom

Usually the first blossom begins around mid-June, the second around mid-August, each lasting for about 4 weeks. Due to the climate the roses may bloom (even weeks) earlier or later.