Thoughts On The Condition Of The Lime-Tree Avenue In Nagycenk And The Possibilities For Its Renewal

Authors

  • László Gerzson Corvinous University of Budapest, Faculty od Landscape Architecture, Department of Garden and open space Design
  • Kinga M. Szilágyi Corvinus University of Budapest, Department for Garden and Open Space Design

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36249/4d.21.6127

Keywords:

Nagycenk, lime-tree avenue, 18th century

Abstract

Among Hungary’s landscape gardening and dendrological treasures, the 2.3- kilometre-long avenue of lime trees in Nagycenk is one of the most remarkable. The double avenue of trees, dating back almost two and a half centuries which forms an imposing visual axis of the former Széchenyi estate, is of both historical and cultural importance and is a unique landscape creation. Its landscaping and aesthetic distinction is based on its monumentality, as well as on the architectural and landscaping harmony between the castle and the castle gar lens and, last but not least, on the captivat ing beauty of the ancient trees that make up the avenue. The scientific significance of the avenue lies in the high research value of the 250-year-old trees remain ad in the alley as living gene-bank reserv as. Together with the historic palace, the avenue (at least its first section) is a protected site and was included on the World Heritage List in 2001.

Author Biographies

  • László Gerzson, Corvinous University of Budapest, Faculty od Landscape Architecture, Department of Garden and open space Design

    associated professor

    E-mail: laszlo.gerzson@uni-corvinous.hu

  • Kinga M. Szilágyi, Corvinus University of Budapest, Department for Garden and Open Space Design

    professor

    E-mail: kinga.szilágyi@uni-corvinus.hu

References

Dr. Károly Örsi: Történeti kertek- A magyar kertépítészet legszebb alkotásai. (Historical gardens - the most beautiful creations of landscape architecture in Hungary.) Ökotáj, 1992/2

Blenheim. Landscape fór a Palace. Edited: James Bond, Kate Tiller. Alán Sution Publishing Ltd. Oxford University Department fór Extemal Studies 1387

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2011-02-01

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2011 (21)

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Thoughts On The Condition Of The Lime-Tree Avenue In Nagycenk And The Possibilities For Its Renewal. (2011). 4D Journal of Landscape Architecture and Garden Art, 21, 2-19. https://doi.org/10.36249/4d.21.6127