The first Japanese garden in Europe was created in Lubusz Region

At the beginning of the 20th century in the area of the current Lubusz Voivodeship, the first real Japanese garden in Europe was created. In the then palace park in Iłowa, owner of the Iłowa estate in 1902-1921, Count Frederick von Hochberg Fürstenstein, a diplomat (German Emperor William II ambassador to Japan), and also a genius in the field of oriental garden art, using the natural layout of the land (branches of the Czerna Mała River, ponds and islands), with the introduction of exotic shrubs, garden architecture and composition characteristic of Japanese gardens such as stone lanterns and bridges, tea houses created a masterful garden establishment.