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Kriemhild's Rose Garden
LAND-ART BY EICHFELDER FOR THE WORMS RHINE BANK
On the picturesque Rhine promenade, next to the Hagen monument, the artist Eichfelder created another resonance site for the Nibelung theme.
"Kriemhild's Rose Garden" is conceived as an art work that can be experienced, walked through and changes throughout the year, making these narratives visible for the present.
The land art project consists of two components, on the one hand a labyrinth of roses and on the other a group of three lime trees that could become one mighty tree over the centuries.
Through the symbolic purchase of 224 rose bushes and three linden trees, Worms citizens, institutions and associations have expressed their attachment to the city and their joy about the project and financed the planting.
THE LIME TREES
The three tall winter lime trees are planted close to each other in a triangle so that they form a common crown and, in the distant future, possibly also a common trunk.
The lime tree is inextricably linked to the mythology of the Nibelungen, it famously overshadows the dragon fight, but also Siegfried's death, it is found in the rose garden of the epic of the same name, as a magic lime tree in the Seyfridlied and symbolically at Brynhild's Waberlohe in the ancient Germanic Edda.
THE LABYRINTH
The connections between the Nibelungen saga and the labyrinth are not so obvious. Nevertheless, a large number of traditions suggest that the cult associated with the labyrinth, whose roots go back to the Bronze Age and which was widespread throughout the Indo-European world, forms a mythical basis of the European and thus also of the Nibelung saga. Cultic labyrinth games have left their mark in many places, probably also in Worms.
THE ROSES
In terms of motif history, "Kriemhild's Rose Garden", "Brynhild's Waberlohe" and even "Sleeping Beauty's Fairytale Castle" are closely related. They are reminiscent of the sanctuaries of the goddess Freya, which were surrounded by roses, and are found again in the "Madonna in the Rose Grove".
In symbolic history, the rose stands for love and fertility, but also for death, as preferably rose hedges separated sacrificial sites and graves from the outside world, thus creating a sacred place. For this reason, the "rose garden" was also synonymous with ancient burial grounds for a long time.
The development of the rose garden
TECHNICAL DATA
The labyrinth measures 24 x 23 m and corresponds to a total area of around 500 m². The path to be covered in it stretches over 120 m single. With an average path width of 1.80 m and an inner courtyard in the centre of 3 x 4 m, this corresponds to a path area of over 200 m². The edging to be applied on both sides measures about 320 linear metres.
THE ROSES
The rose hedge, consisting of hardy historic shrub roses, varies in height between 80 and 150 centimetres, will be about 150 metres long and will consist of 224 rose bushes of different, beguilingly fragrant red and pink roses.
The following rose varieties were used: 56x Rose de Resht, 28x Miranda, 14x Rosa spinosissima William, 14x William Shakespeare 2000, 12x Rose officinalis 'Red Rose of Lancaster', 20x Tuscany, 20x Président de Sèze, 20x Félicité Parmentier, 20x Aimable Rouge, 20x Sidonie.
The three tall winter lime trees are planted close to each other in a triangle so that they form a common crown and, in the distant future, possibly also a common trunk. Lime trees gain height quite quickly once they are planted.
The lawn with the three lime trees and the labyrinth in KRIEMHILD'S ROSE GARDEN takes up a total area of about 1000 m².