The Garden

Bakkehuset is today surrounded by tall houses in a heavily built-up area, but in the Rahbeks’ day it was a farm standing on its own out in the country. Some seven acres of land belonged to the it in addition to a small kitchen garden and a few domestic animals, but Kamma Rahbek laid out the rest as a romantic garden. There was a small lake and winding paths among rare plants and exotic flowers, which Kamma Rahbek, talented and with a knowledge of botany, tended, and then there was the new feature of lawns. So the garden of Bakkehuset was famous in its day; it was a kind of English ornamental gardening transferred to a private Danish garden, a feature that is otherwise mainly known from country houses and mansions.

The Rahbeks and their guests could stroll about in the garden and derive inspiration from their surroundings. All that is left of the garden now is a narrow strip behind the building.

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