These special domed greenhouses are situated in a secluded corner of a nearly 14-hectare monastery park. The monastery park itself was first mentioned around 1805. At that time, it was laid out in the style of an English garden. The park remained privately owned until 2005, after which the city purchased it. The city made it available to the public as a public amenity.
With the acquisition by the city, this beautiful former monastery garden was awakened from its slumber. The ponds were detoxified, the undergrowth was removed from the park, and everything was cleaned up. The entire complex has since been included on the list of protected heritage sites.
These spectacular dome greenhouses were erected in 1987. The domes served as a training nursery to offer the unemployed renewed prospects for integration into the labor market. The design is inspired by the American engineer and philosopher Richard Buckminster Fuller. He experimented for NASA to find the most energetically synergistic form. His 'Biosphere' pavilion, designed for the 1967 Expo in Montreal, enjoyed worldwide admiration. These greenhouses are in fact refined geometric forms, known as geodesic domes.
The surface consists of a series of alternating hexagonal and pentagonal surfaces. When properly assembled, they result in spherical, self-supporting structures. They can be connected to one another endlessly. Twenty-four such greenhouses were built and grouped into various “globe families”. The domes are not only highly intelligent buildings, as they can function without support, but they also withstand wind and weather optimally.
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