Review article

Maksimir Park Planned by Vrhovac and Haulik

Andrej Žmegač

Abstract

This paper presents the concept of the park designed by Vrhovac (1787) and based on data found in the Haulik´s album Park Jurjaves (1853). According to this source material, the park had French Baroque features in plan with a noticeable romantic component evident in the placement of a star-shaped composition on raised and irregularly shaped ground with a centrally placed building. It is considered that a trace of the Vrhovac´s radial composition might have been found in the Haulik´s period as well (maps from 1846 and 1853), particularly in the fan-shaped layout north of the Vidikovac building. The only known and to some extent preserved elements of the Vrhovac´s park are the center of the star-shaped composition, the access alley and the entrance. They are analyzed with regard to subsequent transformation, that is, the roles they were assigned in the Haulik´s concept of the park.

Keywords

French Baroque park; Maksimir; landscape park; Zagreb

Hrčak ID:

11051

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/11051

Publication date:

12.11.2003.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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