The lost Garden

Throughout the history of the palace, the gardens have always been as equally important as the house and its fittings and furnishings. They have been redesigned to suit every generation's personal ideas and the latest fashions of the time. more...

The Palace Park

A landscape painting

After 1820, Jérôme Count Herberstein commissioned to design an English landscape garden that should represent the romantic ideals of the new era, "...a perfect landscape=painting" composed to recreate nature in all its diversity. more...

The Rose Mound

It was after 1833, that Count Herberstein's masterpiece would be created: a vista point that functioned simultaneously as a rose garden. more...

Old Roses in Eggenberg

Every year in June an extraordinary “garden caprice” dating back to the Biedermeier period bursts into bloom to form a masterpiece of gardening in Eggenberg Park. more...

Planetary Garden

The design solution chosen by Helga Tornquist in 1999/2000 establishes a connection to the Palace’s historical context. In a playful way, it draws on the age-old planetary doctrine of signatures, the iconography of which has great significance for Schloss Eggenberg. more...

The Master’s Garden

In 1848, the head gardener Friedrich Wägener created and built a private garden for the family at the back of the palace. This garden was later known as the Breakfast or Master's Garden. more...

The Garden in front of the Southern Pavilion

It was after 1848 that this Biedermeier-style flower garden in front of the southern pavilion was created and the original shooting range in the formal garden was converted into a summer apartment and rented out to "distinguished tenants". more...