Forst (Lausitz) in Brandenburg: Rose Garden Town on the Neisse
Forst sits on the Lausitzer Neisse river at the Polish border in the Spree-Neisse district of Brandenburg. The town has about 22,840 inhabitants. Its Ostdeutscher Rosengarten, established in 1913, covers 17 hectares and contains some 40,000 rose bushes in hundreds of varieties, making it one of Europe's largest rose gardens. Annual rose festivals in June draw visitors from across the region.
Cottbus is roughly 25 kilometres to the west. The Polish town of Brody lies directly across the river. Before 1945, Forst was a major textile manufacturing centre, particularly for cloth and drapery. The Textilmuseum documents this industrial past. Much of the old town was destroyed in 1945 and rebuilt in a utilitarian post-war style, though the rose garden survived largely intact.
The Neisse marks the German-Polish border here, established after the Second World War. The landscape is flat Lusatian lowland, with sandy soils and pine forests stretching in every direction.
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Forst sits on the Lausitzer Neisse river at the Polish border in the Spree-Neisse district of Brandenburg. The town has about 22,840 inhabitants. Its Ostdeutscher Rosengarten, established in 1913, covers 17 hectares and contains some 40,000 rose bushes in hundreds of varieties, making it one of Europe's largest rose gardens. Annual rose festivals in June draw visitors from across the region.
Cottbus is roughly 25 kilometres to the west. The Polish town of Brody lies directly across the river. Before 1945, Forst was a major textile manufacturing centre, particularly for cloth and drapery. The Textilmuseum documents this industrial past. Much of the old town was destroyed in 1945 and rebuilt in a utilitarian post-war style, though the rose garden survived largely intact.
The Neisse marks the German-Polish border here, established after the Second World War. The landscape is flat Lusatian lowland, with sandy soils and pine forests stretching in every direction.
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