Eichendorff-Anlage (Eichendorff Park), Heidelberg

On your way to the highest point of Heiligenberg, you'll come across the Eichendorff-Anlage, a charming little park below the Bismarck Tower that invites you to linger.

Few poets have shaped the image of Heidelberg as the City of Romanticism more than Joseph von Eichendorff in his later works. Reflecting on the passage of space and time with an idealistic view, Eichendorff evoked the emotions of bygone days in the opening and closing lines of his 1855 narrative poem "Robert and Guiscard". Heidelberg, where he studied law, philosophy, and literature from 1807 to 1808, is portrayed as a fairytale realm of Romantic longing and unrestrained youth. A commemorative plaque on the mountainside of the park features an excerpt from his famous poem, written two years before his death.