The aqueduct is the imitation of a Roman water conduit and was built from 1788 to 1792 under the direction of Heinrich Christoph Jussow. To this day, it is the highest artificial waterfall in an artistically designed garden.
Planned and built as an artificially decaying structure, the aqueduct abruptly breaks off after the 14th of its high arches. The incoming water falls here 30 metres into the depths. Debris from the aqueduct lies there, as if it had fallen from a once intact structure.
The construction of the ruins was modern at the time the aqueduct was built. People had visited the originals in Italy and France and wanted to remind people at home of the Roman Empire with its progressiveness. The water flows over the Peneus Cascades past the Jussow Temple into the fountain pond.
