The large barock garden covering around 50 hectares is still an almost completely unchanged witness of its times. At the end of the 17th century, the Guelph electors built a summer palace close to the borders of Hannover, and thus turned Herrenhausen into one of the main cultural centres in Europe. And she was convinced: “With this garden we can flaunt.” Structure and shape of the Great Garden wearing handwriting on electress Sophie.