![The Baroque garden of Schloss Waldegg near Solothurn, laid out by Johann Viktor I von Besenval in around 1700.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/angelegte-barockgarten-des-schloss-waldegg-bei-solothurn-300x225.jpg)
Baroque gardens in Switzerland
In France the layout of the Baroque garden was subject to strict rules, and its purpose was to illustrate power and wealth. Here in Switzerland, too, members of the aristocracy and the wealthy merchant classes constructed their gardens based on the French model – albeit with good Swiss simplicity.
![View of Monsieur Voltaire’s Le Délices, etching by François Marie Isidore Quéverdo, 1769.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/les-delices-de-voltaire-bibliotheque-de-geneve-300x229.jpg)
![The geometric and carefully symmetrical French garden is a place for outward display, and a paradigm for the European Baroque garden. View of the garden of the Palace of Versailles.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/blick-in-den-garten-des-schlosses-versailles-gbe-86598-lm-77841-300x191.jpg)
![A Baroque garden stretching almost to the horizon: Maximilian de Geer’s “Nymphenburg Palace from the Munich side”, c. 1730.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/maximilian-de-geers-nymphenburg-von-der-munchner-seite-um-1730-203x300.jpg)
![Undated draft plan for a country estate with gardens. Drawing by Erasmus Ritter.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/undatierter-planentwurf-fur-einen-landsitz-mit-garten-183x300.jpg)
![The garden is continued in the interior décor: banqueting hall at Schloss Hindelbank, c. 1725.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/hindelbank-schloss-2-300x225.jpg)
![The garden is continued in the interior décor: banqueting hall at Schloss Hindelbank, c. 1725.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/hindelbank-schloss-1-300x225.jpg)
The garden is continued in the interior décor: banqueting hall at Schloss Hindelbank, c. 1725. Eduard Widmer