A reconstructed Renaissance Garden
Surrounding Tycho Brahe’s castle Uraniborg was an amazing botanical garden, shaped into squares, triangles and circles in accordance with renaissance ideals.
The idea was that the garden would reproduce the Garden of Eden. Fruits and herbs, which were later used in Tycho Brahe’s alchemical medicine works, were cultivated here.
When Tycho left Ven the compound was gradually destroyed. Starting in the 1990s, it has been partly resurrected, and about one half has been reconstructed to date. Here, plants are planted that are known to have existed in Danish castles and abbey gardens in the 16th century.
The ongoing research involved in this reconstruction is carried out in collaboration with the University of Agricultural Sciences in Alnarp.
