Vrt ob škofijski palači v Ljubljani

Povzetek

There was not always a market square behind the Bishop’s Palace in Ljubljana. In the sixteenth century, this space was occupied by a garden that was reshaped into a space for market stalls as early as the seventeenth century. The prince-bishops Count Ernst Amadeus Attems and Count Karl Johann von Herberstein tried to appropriate the space as diocesan property, but without success. The empty space (today Pogačar Square), located between the Bishop’s Palace, the Seminary, the Kresija Palace, and the Ljubljanica River, was turned into a public garden by the Illyrian governor only around 1812. However, due to maintenance costs and regime changes, the garden was not kept in its original form for long. As evident in some plans from the first half of the nineteenth century, the garden eventually became two green areas with no garden design features. A garden plan kept in the Archives of Slovenia shows diverse garden elements, opulent flowerbeds and patterns, and architectural garden elements, which indicate that the garden was designed in Biedermeier style. This plan, dating back to 1812, places the Bishop’s Palace garden among the earliest examples of Biedermeier gardens in Central Europe. The garden therefore represents a very interesting and high-quality example in the history of garden design in Slovenia.