Plans without Plants? – The Early Modern Status Garden in the North
Author(s): Annemari Tranberg
Year: 2018
Summary
Garden culture reached the northernmost Sweden, creating new spaces by locals and newcomers from Central-Europe. The history of status gardens in the north affiliate with the spread of ironworks and trade connections. The idea of formal gardening arrived in Tornio during the late 17th century as garden drawings from Tornio and Kengisbruk ironworks imply. The garden fashion, which studied using macrofossils and maps, was visible more in structures and plans than in plants. However, gardens and town planning appears to follow the main genres of art and architectural streams. After the mid-18th century, town identity expresses with plans predicting changing townscape. The town plot gardening and early steps of public greenspace dominated the townscape. In Tornio, the 19th century was time for garden culture, especially town gardens - parks, to materialize.
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Plans without Plants? – The Early Modern Status Garden in the North. Annemari Tranberg. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441735)
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Keywords
General
garden
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Macrofossil
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Town
Geographic Keywords
Finland
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
Early modern
Spatial Coverage
min long: 19.648; min lat: 59.807 ; max long: 31.582; max lat: 70.089 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 422