BAROKNI PARTERNI VRT DVORCA ELTZ U VUKOVARU
THE BAROQUE PARTERRE OF THE CASTLE ELTZ IN VUKOVAR

Summary/Abstract: In this paper a photograph of the lost original layout of the building complex of the Eltz castle from the mid-18th-century is published, showing the ground plan of the geometrical parterre garden between the castle and the Danube river bank. Along with a photograph of an also lost drawing of the completed works on the building complex from the late 18th or early 19th century and other reliable sources, the photograph testifies to the appearance of the Baroque building complex from the 18th century. The architecture of castle and garden formed an indivisible unity and the reconstruction of the garden, in conformity with similar reconstructions of French geometrical gardens in Europe, would be a significant contribution to garden culture in Croatia. The Baroque castle of Anselmo Kasimir von Eltz, which today forms the nucleus of the architectural unity finally produced in Historicism, is a significant monument of Slavonian Baroque. The geometrical parterre, designed and completed together with the manor, was an integral part of its architecture. The garden itself is one of the most significant and most beautiful monuments of the entire Vukovar inheritance, while in the whole of the admittedly not very rich inheritance of garden culture in Croatia, the garden occupies a special and very prominent place. Along with the several decades older and slightly larger former geometrical garden of the castle of Maximillian Gosseau in Nuštar, the geometrical garden of the Vukovar castle is a rare and particularly valuable monument of Baroque garden culture in Croatia, especially due to the fact that the copy of the original garden design is preserved. The reconstruction of the garden is possible and in the conservational sense easy to conduct and it is extremely important especially for the sake of the reaffirmation of the preserved Baroque inheritance in its entirety of the Eltz castle.

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