Jardin médiéval

Located opposite the cemetery, on the Véloroute du Vignoble cycle path, this garden can be visited free of charge during the tourist season.
The medieval garden at Kintzheim is one of 11 medieval gardens on the Circuit des 10 Communes Touristiques du Haut-Koenigsbourg.
This apothecary's garden, called "HORTUS HYPOCRAS", features a mixture of shrubs and plants used in part for therapeutic purposes. The apothecary is a reminder of a past of sophisticated pharmacopoeias, more or less well used depending on the people who distilled them and their botanical knowledge.
Maximum reliability was granted to monasteries, as the monks had acquired useful knowledge of botanical science. The medieval garden came into being with the expansion of monasteries in the 7th and 8th centuries. As a rule, four squares (or four crosses) divided the food: -The first was used to grow vegetables for soups (cabbage, etc.); -The second contained aromatic plants; -The third was precious for root vegetables (carrots?); -The fourth honored fruit plants.
The spirit of Kintzheim?s Hortus Hypocras is indicated by two tables with explicit texts.

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