JENISCHPARK & JENISCH-HAUS

Jenischpark. The Jenischpark is one of Hamburg's most elegant and pleasant parks in the affluent residential district of Othmarschen, along the Elbchaussee. It is a landscaped park where Hamburgers flock on weekends, crossed by the beautiful Flottbek stream. It is marked by two buildings with radically opposed styles: the Jenisch-Haus and the Ernst-Barlach-Haus.

Jenisch-Haus. The landscape park is in fact the dependency of its flagship monument: the Jenisch-Haus. The Hamburg senator Martin Jenisch acquired this land in 1828, which was then completely surrounded by fields and woods, and had a country house built for him by one of his acquaintances, the famous Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who left so many monuments in Berlin (including the famous Neue Wache). In a monumental, neoclassical style, Schinkel built a superb villa. Jenisch also transformed the adjoining land into a landscape park, a concept that was very much in vogue among Germany's romantic elite at the time. Preserved as a park at the time of the urbanization of Othmarschen, the villa and its park provide a very bucolic setting for a walk. There is a landscaped garden and glassworks. The house can be visited, with its Biedermeier, rococo and neoclassical interiors. The temporary exhibitions are varied and of high quality; photography, contemporary painting... The Jenisch-Haus museum is a branch of the Altona Museum.