Peter Joseph Lenné, the ingenious landscape architect, visited the celebrated spa town of Bad Homburg a number of times during his lifetime. In 1854, Lenné designed the part of the spa park situated between Schwedenpfad and Kisseleffstraße. A few months later, the centrepiece of the park was completed. Subsequent master gardeners created park extensions according to his plans. Its layout, which follows the style of the English landscape park, has essentially been preserved. Peter Joseph Lenné (1789-1866) descended from a family of court gardeners based in Bonn. After studying French gardening and architectural theory in Paris, he first earned his living as a gardener's assistant in the royal garden administration of Potsdam. Later, he held the post of Royal Prussian Garden Director mainly in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. The Peter Joseph Lenné Memorial, which stands at the entrance to the spa gardens on the Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade, was created by Otto Weber-Hartl in 1982.
