The garden of St. Joseph is designed as a healing garden by the hospital of the Sisters of Mercy of Saint Charles Borromeo. The main mission of the garden restoration was to allow barrier -free access to the garden and create a harmonious space.
It is a place of meeting, peace and safety that offers not only to the patients a pleasant sitting with loved ones, or just quiet contemplation and relaxation. This is also adapted to the layout of the benches.
Between the flower beds are bays with benches creating privacy and intimate space.
The uniqueness of the garden is in the possibility of simply move bedridden patients from the hospital room to fresh air in the garden, where they can perceive the outside world much more intensely than behind the hospital windows. The fizz of leaves, singing of birds, the scents and colors of flowers can become everyday little joy with the significant therapeutic effects for the mind.
The flower beds, inspired by Mother Mary´s motifs, are planted with traditional symbolic plants. They have an exceptional ability to activate the senses, calm the mind, and to improve the quality of life of those who are seriously ill, bedridden, or struggle with a life obstacles. This also applies to relatives.

The barrier-free pathway network is dimensioned and materially designed to make it possible to move throughout the garden with a wheelchair and a hospital bed. Modern space design includes elements of blue -green infrastructure with maximum use of rainwater retention - irrigation is solved with water from the collection gallery system under the garden.
The proposed situation gradually developed for seven years, with the final part in cooperation with the Technical University in Dresden. Great recognition belongs to the nuns of the Sisters of Mercy of Saint Charles Borromeo, whose centuries -old experience in the treatment of long-term ill patients was a valuable source of practical information, including the requirement of ability for patients to spend time outdoors.
This stage is the first phase of a plan to build a complex of gardens that will be gradually expanded.