Aachen pond
The Aachener Weiher is an artificial lake in Cologne's inner green belt . He was at the beginning of the 1920s after the general plan of the city planner Fritz Schumacher at the instigation of the then Mayor Konrad Adenauer through the garden director Fritz Encke in the Rayon of the interior fortress ring created. Its area is almost 40,000 m².
location
Towards the streets, the pond is bordered by a strip of green, sometimes more, sometimes less, and enclosed by Frieda-Fischer-Weg (named after Frieda Fischer since 2014). The path includes a small bridge at the level of the Museum of East Asian Art, where there is a small area of water that is connected to the pond.
The facility is on the left on Aachener Strasse , which has been connecting the Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium with Boulogne-sur-Mer ( Gesoriacum ) since Roman times as the so-called Via Belgica today . The pond is named after her.
To the west of the pond is the Innere Kanalstrasse , to the east are the railway tracks of the left-hand Rhine route , which curves around the inner city of Cologne .
The Hiroshima-Nagasaki-Park , so named since 2004 , connects to the south side up to Bachemer Straße , which was previously only referred to as the “green area at the Aachener Weiher”. After the Second World War, like many other open spaces in and around Cologne, it was turned into a hilly landscape with rubble. Before that, during the Nazi era, the Maifeld was located here, a parade ground for around 200,000 people. (→ Neustadt-Süd (Cologne) #Aachener Strasse and Belgian Quarter )
The street Zülpicher Wall , one of the wall streets in front of the former medieval city walls , will continue as a footpath in the park.
The waters
The pond has a concrete floor that is supposed to prevent water seepage. It is fed by a small inflow from the Cologne city forest, which is fed via the Lindenthal Canal . The water quality is problematic because of the shallow depth and the heavy use of the people in Cologne for their leisure time, but there is still an opportunity to fish through the Coelner fishing and water protection association. Eels, perch, bream, carp, roach and pikeperch live in the pond.
leisure
The park is heavily frequented and even more so the meadow area near the pond. Barbecue parties take place here in summer, which the city wants to encourage to avoid waste with barbecue scouts . The city offered the opportunity to slackline by setting up appropriate pillars . The area is also used for open-air concerts . The Aachen beer garden with 900 seats has been created on the bank , the tent-covered part of which is also open in winter with 150 seats.
Culture
In addition to the nearby university, the Japanese Cultural Institute and the Museum of East Asian Art with its museum café and the Japanese Garden - two coordinated structures by Japanese architects - are well worth a visit. Across from the Inner Canal Street, there is the Italian Cultural Institute with the Petrarca House at the end of the Lindenthal Canal, which is assigned to the university .
maintenance
In addition to the municipal green space office and the fishing club, the pond is looked after on a voluntary basis by the Cologne Green Foundation , which initiates campaigns for the renovation of Cologne's many green spaces and is looking for sponsors .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map view. Retrieved July 20, 2020 (Coordinates: X: 354268.47592068: 5644639.9590489).
- ↑ Link to the Cologne Peace Forum ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ club page
- ↑ Entry on the pond on anglermap.de
- ↑ Grill scouts in Cologne (Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from July 20, 2014)
- ^ Website of the beer garden
- ↑ Cologne Magazine
- ↑ Green Foundation, here with a contribution to the Inner Green Belt and Aachener Weiher
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 7 ″ N , 6 ° 55 ′ 39.7 ″ E