Das Wasser als technisches material und element in der ungarischen Gartenkunst und Repräsentation des 18. Jahrhunderts
Water as a technical material and element in Hungarian garden art and representation of the 18th century

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the history of water culture and its architectural implementation in the Baroque era. What interests me most in this epoch is what man actually knew about water as a physical element and its laws in the Kingdom of Hungary. One of the important sources is the handwritten, encyclopaedic textbook of a Hungarian Piarist, who attempted to summarize the contemporary findings of the natural sciences. These are Lukács Mösch's script Bibliothecae mathematicae ... Classis I-III. Anno 1684. This manuscript underlies the scientific explanations also with numerous valuable illustrations, some of which are reproduced here. The practical application of this Mösch material is seen in the Hungarian garden art of the age in which the technical attractions were combined with the theater and Christian symbolism. Examples are the aristocratic gardens of Eger, Cseklész, Pozsonyivánka and Eszterháza, which are discussed in detail in this text.

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