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LIBOSAD or FLOWER GARDEN
has somewhat come nearer to the town,when the city forts and walls were torn downand the houses
built instead reachedthe Libosad. The design and lay out were drawn up by Anton Arche, the
implementation took place in the years 1840 - 1845. The Libosad is another work of extraordinary
value. Without any attempts to violate or modify the original layoutof the early-Baroque Libosad,
its side parts were supplemented with another buildings, namely:the tropical stove, cold
greenhouse, residential and administration buildings.This quasi-quadrangle created a yard inside
giving to the Libosad and Rotunda standingin its centre. The entrance was emphasisedwith a
portal embedded into a shallow three-axis buttress. The buttress is capped with a triangle
tympanum carrying the gilted Archbishop's indicium. The yard is fitted with garden furniture
made from cast-iron in the Archbishop's ironworks factory in Frýdlant. The vases furnished with
the Archbishop's indicium and benchesin the secondary rococo style all look smartand modern
coated with white colour.LIBOSAD or FLOWER GARDENis an axially-oriented late-Renaissance or,
as a matter of fact, manneristic garden, foundedin 1665 on the oblong rectangular platformwith
dimensions 300 m x 485 m.The front gate verges into the extraordinary long and monumental
gallery, called collonade.224 m in length forms the phenomenal shapeof the architectural element.
The ground platform of Libosad was interlaced with a complex water distribution system supplying
the ponds, fountains, the lake by the aviary, waterworks,and the sophisticated machinery-like unit
called the "water-jests" located in the interior of the central Rotunda. The axis of Libosad is
stretched from the front gate, across the Rotunda to the skittleground equipped with the water-jest
as well. Along the main axis line there were the mazes and rectangular ponds stocked with carp and
trout fries. Further on, the axis runs over two artificial HUMMOCKS called the Strawberry Hills,
the popular composition elements. The occurrence of these dates back to the antique gardens, e.g.
the Chorsabad Garden. The then hummocks already had summer-houses, which was also the case in
Kromeriz. Another stageof the axis were the amusement facilities of the garden.
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