Germany Guide
Hesse
Rosenhöhe
East of Mathildenhöhe, the Expressionist, brick-built 1924 Löwentor is topped by the lions from the 1914 exhibition and marks the entrance to Rosenhöhe, a former vineyard reworked as an English-style park in the early nineteenth century. The grounds are peppered with buildings, from the 1950s artists' ateliers to a pretty Biedermeier tea house and the Neoclassical mausoleum in which many of the Hesse-Darmstadts are buried. The highlight is the formal rose garden created for Ernst Ludwig. West of Rosenhöhe on Landgraf-Georg-Strasse, the Freibad Grosser Woog (Mon 9am–8pm, Tues– Fri 8am–8pm, Sat & Sun 9am–6pm; €2.50) offers open-air swimming at the lake of the same name. You can also rent boats (€2.50).