The Empress Augusta Gardens, the southern section of the Rhine Gardens, were designed between 1856 and 1861 by Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, the wife of Emperor Wilhelm I, by the ingenious Prussian garden designer Peter-Joseph Lenné (Sanssouci, Peacock Island, etc.) according to plans by Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau.1902, twelve years after Augusta's death, the second section of the Rhine complex - today's Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer - was built from the Electoral Palace to the Deutsches Eck.The Rhine complex was redesigned as part of the 2011 Federal Garden Show. A magnificent riverside boulevard was created, lined with important sights, inviting visitors to stroll along.