Written memories of Peter Rosegger and anecdotes from his surroundings suggest what the green spaces around the country house in Krieglach looked like and how they were used in Rosegger's time:
"Behind the house a vegetable and fruit garden, in which I had a neat wooden cell placed, in front of the house a wild garden, whose planted little trees did not know for years whether they should grow into the earth or out of it, but which almost suddenly decided in favor of the latter. The whole property is surrounded by a wooden fence, which of course has to be completed every year because some poor villagers used to get their firewood from it. I don't keep track of who does it, because what I don't know doesn't make me hotʻ. But it warms them, and so there should be no enmity [...]
I have lived in the house with my family summer after summer for many years. The wild garden gives its sweet scent of flowers, its pleasant shade, its whispering and birdsong; the vegetable garden never tires of sending the best greens to the kitchen all summer long, and the fruit trees give us many a basket of delicious apples to take back to the city in the fall when we leave with the swallows. The estate is very small, and yet the awareness of having founded it ourselves creates a good feeling of comfort."
