Frederikberghave
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<p><b>Frederiksberg Park</b> is one of the largest and most attractive <a href="/pages/w/221937484513056">greenspaces</a> in <a href="/pages/w/109653395718995">Copenhagen</a>, <a href="/pages/w/108615412494037">Denmark</a>. Together with the adjacent <a href="/pages/w/116389555041060">Søndermarken</a> it forms a green area of 64 <a href="/pages/w/106037112760191">hectare</a>s at the western edge of Inner Copenhagen. It is a <a href="/pages/w/110815165610287">romantic landscape garden</a> designed in the <a href="/pages/w/104101322958262">English style</a>.</p><h2>History</h2><h3>The original Baroque garden</h3><p>Frederiksberg Park was established by King <a href="/pages/w/137797812910876">Frederik IV</a> in connection with the construction of <a href="/pages/w/136715646351147">Frederiksberg Palace</a> as his new summer retreat on high grounds atop Valby Hill. Work on the project began in the last half of the 1690s with inspiration from <a href="/pages/w/113396132004585">Italy</a> and <a href="/pages/w/105604449474183">France</a> which Frederick, at that time still Crown Prince, had visited on several occasions. He commissioned the eminent Swedish architect <a href="/pages/w/119465984765732">Nicodemus Tessin</a> to draw a proposal and the final plan was subsequently made by Hans Heinrich Scheel, a captain in the Corps of Royal Engineers.</p><p>The plan involved a <a href="/pages/w/108816199143284">parterre</a> with a complex system of cascades on the sloping terrain in front of the new palace. It was fed by a complicated but inefficient system of pumps which never came to work properly.</p><p>In the end, <a href="/pages/w/199320216767980">Johan Cornelius Krieger</a>, who was at the time also working on an extension and adaption of <a href="/pages/w/143554315661338">Fredensborg Palace</a>, north of Copenhagen, was called upon to redesign the parterre. Unusually of the time, he gave up the parterre completely and instead transformed the slope into a series of terraces.</p>
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