Oil Mountain Garden

The Gorlitz Holy Sepulchre, built at the end of the fifteenth century, is considered the closest to the Jerusalem original of all European Holy Sepulchre complexes of the Middle Ages. It includes the Crucifixion Chapel, the Anointing House with the Pietà, and the tomb. Written testimonies and copperplate engravings show that since the middle of the 16th century the Jerusalem conditions were symbolically transferred to the landscape around the Gorlitz Holy Sepulchre: The little water Lunitz became the "brook Kidron"; at the foot of the slope facing the Holy Sepulchre there was the "Disciples' Meadow", and halfway up this bare hill, called the "Mount of Olives", stood the "Olive Tree", today a maple about 150 years old. The "Ölberggarten" was created between 1923 and 1928 according to a design by the then garden director Heinrich Diekmann as a multifunctional orchard.