Vegesack city garden
| Vegesack city garden Weser promenade Vegesack |
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| Maison et jardin garden festival | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Bremen |
| District | Vegesack |
| Created | From 1898 |
| Newly designed | 1923/29, from 1976 and 1988 |
| Surrounding streets | Weserstr., Schülkenstr. Vegesack Weser promenade |
| Buildings | Boat and club house |
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| Park design | WES with Hinnerk Wehberg , Schreckenberg |
| Technical specifications | |
| Parking area | 2 ha |
The Vegesack City Garden with the Vegesack Weser promenade is located in Bremen in the Vegesack district , directly on the Weser .
history
Rothscher garden
Originally the edge to the Weser in Vegesack was a sand and heather area. The botanist Albrecht Wilhelm Roth built a summer house on the steep slope of the Weser in 1787. He cultivated the Vegesack waterfront as a garden and planted numerous rare trees and shrubs. This location soon became very attractive for the summer seats of Bremen personalities. The narrow Rothsche Garten ranged from today's Strandlust to the former shipyard, the Bremer Vulkan and the width about to today's Gerhard-Rohlfs-Straße .
After Roth's death, various citizens acquired the land on the Weser. Villas with gardens were built on the slopes of the Weser. The lower garden area was washed up with Weser sludge and planted until 1898.
Public park
In 1923, public pressure forced access to the Weser to be a public beach path, which is now the Vegesack Weser promenade. In 1929 the city of Vegesack acquired the one-hectare garden of the tobacco merchant and Senator Carl Wilhelm August Fritze on the Weser as the nucleus of today's public city garden. With his appeal in the Norddeutsche Zeitung , Mayor Werner Wittgenstein achieved that this park was supported by the population and that a city garden association was founded. Johanna (Hanna) Borcherding (1876–1960), teacher and naturalist, was a co-founder of the association; she directed the practical layout of the garden.
The city handed the garden over to the Stadtgartenverein , which existed from 1930 to 1940 and designed and maintained the city garden . In 1948 the municipal garden association for Vegesack and the surrounding area was re-established.
Above these parking areas at Weserstraße 74/75 is the Senator's villa from 1876. In 1938 the city of Vegesack moved in here and from 1946 to 2011 the seat of the local office was here .
The city garden fell into disrepair during the war. It was then restored in two years. Stadtgarten, Strandstrasse and the beach have become popular destinations in the up-and-coming Vegesack. Since 1976, a steel sheet pile wall had to be rammed instead of the sandy beach due to the expansion of the Weser. The city of Bremen gradually acquired the other properties between Strandstrasse and the edge of the slope and pursued the goal of expanding the public green space between Utkiek / Strandlust and Schulkenstrasse / Fährgrund. In 1983, Bremen acquired the north property at the end of the promenade from Bremer Vulkan . In 2000, the Lürssen family gave the city the last piece of land that was still missing from the city garden.
Since 2003 the garden festival “Maison et jardin” has been held around May 1st.
New installation
In 1988 the city commissioned the landscape architects Hinnerk Wehberg , Eppinger, Schmidtke and Lange (WES) from Hamburg and Schreckenberg und Partner from Bremen to submit a design concept, especially for the approximately 1 kilometer long maritime promenade from Strandlust to the Bremer Vulkan . The concept for the 2 hectare park was implemented by 2000. The maintenance and development of the city garden is the responsibility of Umweltbetrieb Bremen (formerly the Bremen horticultural office) in cooperation with the city garden association.
The trumpet tree below the local office is said to still refer to Dr. Roth go back. Some old copper beeches are still preserved from the tree planting around 1898 . Some rare plants have been preserved, other botanical peculiarities have been added, such as the tree of the gods ( bitter ash ), the Himalayan Mahonia and the witch hazel . A rosarium is located on the staircase to the local office, supplemented by herbaceous borders.
The works of art in the park have maritime themes such as the eleven-ton ship propeller and the Regina tug , both from the Vulkan shipyard.
Since 1999 the international music festival Festival Maritim has been taking place in the Stadtgarten on the first weekend in August .
Several stairs lead up to Weserstrasse with its villas and captains' houses as well as to the pedestrian shopping areas.
The boat house and club house of the Vegesack rowing club to the east was built in 1927 according to plans by Ernst Becker in the Bauhaus style and is a listed building ( see here ).
literature
- Peter Schulz, Peter Fischer (cards): Parks in Bremen . Bremer Marketing (ed.), Bremen 2008.
Web links
Individual proof
- ^ Festival Maritime. bremen.de, accessed on July 23, 2019 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 16 ″ N , 8 ° 36 ′ 57 ″ E