Renaissance and Baroque palace owners were often also garden lovers. After all, generous, symmetrical decoration with flowers, paths and watercourses really brings out the best in a magnificent, playful building.

And when there is no urgent government business to attend to, you can stroll around with your sweetheart to your heart's content. Today, archaeologists are occasionally on the trail of such gardens ...

This is now also the case with an excavation on the grounds of Kannawurf Castle in Thuringia, whose Renaissance garden is to be rebuilt by 2016. But first you have to know what it looked like in the first place.