Originally created for the Landgraves of Hessen-Homburg, but today accessible to nature-lovers from near and far, the "Elisabethenschneise" Landscape Park is a wonderful natural experience and the most essential part of the "Great Pine Forest". The area served as a forest park for the landgraves’ families that, in contrast to the intensively designed gardens, remained mostly natural and generally untouched. The landgraves deliberately left the area extending to the "Limes" in its almost natural form. They enhanced it aesthetically with structural elements that were discovered by visitors rather by chance. These include an obelisk, two Adelaide stones, but also relics of the Celts, Germanic tribes and Romans along with various natural features. The "Elisabethenschneise" was initially laid out in 1821 as an extension of the "Tannenwaldallee". To keep its straight course, the "Elisabeth Stone" had to be partially removed and two bridges built over the streams, Leopold Bridge and Landgrave's Bridge, which have since been repaired and are again useable.
