The landscape architect, Christian Heinrich Nebbien, and his design for the Municipal Park in Budapest
The attention of garden historians should be drawn to Varosliget (literally "little town park") in Pest for several reasons. It is one of the first public parks, perhaps the first of its kind in Europe, to be laid out from the very beginning on behalf of the town's inhabitants and with their participation. The designer of Varosliget, Christian Heinrich Nebbian, has remained almost unexplored in both the German and Hungarian literature. In the sparse material available Nebbian is mistakenly referred to as "Henri Nebbian" of French or Belgium origin. In fact Nebbian came from an old family of tenant farmers in Holstein. His father worked as a tailor in Lubeck, where Nebbian was born in 1778; he died in 1841 as agricultural counsellor in Glogau.