"The Great Pine" Pleasure Forest

This part of Homburg’s large pine forest, which got its name from a large silver pine planted in 1669, was used by the landgrave's family as a place of rest and relaxation. Together with his wife, Caroline, Landgrave Frederick V Ludwig created the magnificent forest park as a green refuge at the end of the Tannenwaldalle. The once sparse forest is now densely overgrown. A copy of the Landgrave's Column on the "Rond Point" and the horse grave that Frederick V Ludwig had built in 1773 for his beloved steed, Magyar, are particularly worth seeing. The current plan is to restore the original character of the pleasure forest as best possible, it being a leftover of the sentimental landscape garden of former times.