List of cultural monuments in the Meiningen parks
The list of cultural monuments in the Meiningen parks includes the cultural monuments in the parks of the district town of Meiningen in southern Thuringia .
A total of around 240 individual monuments , 16 monument ensembles , 8 ground monuments and 3 garden monuments are currently registered in Meiningen (as of February 2010). The registration of all monuments in the list of monuments of the Lower Monument Protection Authority in Meiningen has not yet been completed. The list does not claim to be complete.
Individual monuments
address | designation | description | image |
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Bernhardstrasse | Fountain | Drachenbrunnen: Cast iron plate fountain from 1846 at the entrance to Die Fitz and Schlosspark. | |
English garden | Fountain | Fairy tale or Bechstein fountain, dedicated in 1909 to the storyteller of fairy tales and legends, Ludwig Bechstein . | |
English garden | Fountain | Fischknabenbrunnen | |
English garden | monument | Monument dedicated to the conductor and composer Max Reger, inaugurated in 1935 . | |
English garden | monument | Monument to the poet Jean Paul , erected in 1865. | |
English garden | Memorial fountain |
Monument from 1899 for the composer Johannes Brahms . | |
English garden | monument | War memorial for the Meiningen fallen in the Franco-Prussian War 1870/71, erected in 1878 by Erwin Theodor Döbner , who removed the Prussian eagle that once crowned the column in 1949 by iconoclasts . | |
English garden | monument | Monument to Duke Bernhard II , inaugurated in 1903 , bronze statue destroyed by iconoclasts in 1949. | |
English garden | church | Neo-Gothic ducal crypt chapel, built in 1839 according to plans by August Wilhelm Döbner . | |
English garden | Artificial ruins | Shortly after the park was laid out in 1793/94, artificial ruins of a Gothic castle with bridge, main house, gates and platforms, located at the entrance in Leipziger Strasse, architect Johann Andreas Schaubach . | |
Herrenberg Forest Park |
monument | Monument to Otto Ludwig , German writer (1813–1965). | |
Marienstrasse | Fountain | Swan fountain: Cast iron fountain with two water-spouting swans from 1835, at a south entrance to the English Garden. | |
Park cemetery Berliner Strasse 13-17 |
Tomb | The tomb of Duke Georg II and Helene Freifrau von Heldburg , it is the work of the sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand . | |
Castle Park | bridge | Arched bridge : Steel truss arched bridge with iron-cast iron railing over the Werra , built in 1882/83 according to plans by Eduard Fritze , renovated and reconstructed in 1991/92. | |
Karlsallee Palace Park |
bridge | Green Bridge: Stone arch bridge with two arches and iron-cast iron railing at Burg-Erlig over both → Bleichgräben. | |
Karlsallee Palace Park |
bridge | Steel truss arch bridge with iron art cast railing over the merged Bleichgraben, architect: Eduard Fritze. |
Soil monuments - garden monuments
address | designation | description | image |
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Bleaching trenches | City fortifications, park | Ground monument : Two parallel moats with a wall in between, in front of the former city wall, surrounds the eastern and northern parts of the old town. Originally the complex consisted of three trenches and two ramparts. Exists today as a green belt with a promenade and avenue around the old town. | |
English garden | graveyard | Ground monument: old cemetery , cemetery in the south of the English Garden used until the mid-19th century, numerous preserved tombstones and monuments. | |
English garden | Park | Garden monument : English landscape park of around twelve hectares , created from 1782. | |
Herrenberg | Forest park | Ground monument: Historic park, laid out at the end of the 17th century, converted into a forest park from the 19th century. | |
Park cemetery Berliner Strasse 13-17 |
graveyard | Garden monument: cemetery laid out from 1835 to 1838 with a neo-Gothic entrance building, expanded several times and designed as an English landscape park at the end of the 19th century. | |
Castle Park | Park | Garden monument: English landscape park, initially laid out as a baroque garden from 1692 to 1770 . |
See also
literature
- Ingrid Reissland / Hartmut Pfannschmidt: The Meininger Parks . Verlag Resch, Meiningen 2012, ISBN 978-3-940295-30-9 .
- Thränhardt / Hartmut Pfannschmidt: Architecture in Meiningen . Verlag Resch, Meiningen 2010, ISBN 978-3-940295-08-8 .
- Kuratorium Meiningen (Hrsg.): Lexicon for the history of the city of Meiningen . Bielsteinverlag, Meiningen 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809504-4-2 .
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- List of monuments of the Lower Monument Protection Authority of the District Office Meiningen, published February 2010.
- Reissland / Schneider: Meiningen - monuments of the city center , Kulturbund der DDR 1982.
Web links
Commons : Meiningen - collection of images, videos and audio files