Orangery

The Orangerieschloss built by Frederick William IV of Prussia in Potsdam in the mid-19th century, in imitation of the Italian Renaissance style

Orangery in Kuskovo, Moscow (1760s).

Orangerie in the ground of the Château de Versailles

An Orangery was a feature of royal and aristocratic residences through the 17th and 18th centuries. This type of greenhouse, with citrus trees being grown in tubs and wintering under cover, originated as a part of Renaissance gardens, once glass-making technology enabled sufficient expanses of clear glass to be produced. The Orangerie at the Palace of the Louvre, 1617, inspired imitations that were not eclipsed until the development of the modern greenhouse in the 1840s.

Contents

1 European Orangeries
2 Orangeries in the UK
3 Other Orangeries
4 Reference
5 External links

European Orangeries

Château de Versailles
* [Versailles Orangerie]
Tuileries: Orangerie in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris
Schönbrunn, Vienna
Peterhof, Bolshaya Kamennya Oranzhereya (1722-25)
Tsarskoe Selo, Bolshaya Oranzhereya (1762, 1820)
Kuskovo, Moscow, Oranzhereya (illustration, right)
Potsdam, Orangerieschloss (illustration, above right)
Fulda, Orangerie
Kassel, Orangerie
Gera, Orangery and "Küchengarten"
Strasbourg, park of the Orangerie
Hanover, a part of the Herrenhausen Gardens
Nynäs Slott, Manorial Estate (Castle) and Orangery, Nynäs, Sweden

Orangeries in the UK

The Orangery at Kew 1761 is the earliest surviving work there by Sir William Chambers. At 28 m (92 ft) long, it was the largest glasshouse in Britain when it was built. Though it was designed as an arcade with end pavilions to winter oranges, the light levels were too low under its solid roof for it to be successful.

[Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew:] The Orangery

The Orangery at Margam Park, Wales, was built between 1787 and 1793 to house a large collection of orange, lemon and citron trees inherited by Thomas Mansel Talbot. The original house has been razed, but the surviving Orangery, at 327 feet, is the longest one in Wales.

[Margam Park:] Orangery

There is an orangery dating from about 1700 at Kenwood House in London.

Other Orangeries

In the United States the earliest surviving Orangery is at the Tayloe house, Mount Airy, Virginia.

Reference

Mary Woods, Glass Houses: A History of Greenhouses, Orangeries and Conservatories 1996

External links

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