Arboretum Park Härle
The Arboretum Park Härle in Oberkassel , a part of Bonn's Beuel district , is a landscape park at the foot of the Siebengebirge . The arboretum is a facility that belongs to the street of garden art between the Rhine and Maas and is managed by the Härle Arboretum Park Foundation .
history
The beginnings of the park go back to the former director of the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, Franz Carl Rennen, who created a summer residence here. He began to create a garden. In 1870 he planted a. a. two atlas cedars , a ginkgo , a sequoia and an incense cedar ( Calcocedrus decurrens ), which have been preserved to this day.
In 1921 the lawyer Carl Härle bought the property, had the house rebuilt in the Bauhaus style and in 1922 the park was expanded by planting special trees and shrubs according to a design plan by the garden architects Carl Rohde and Son . The adjacent hillside forest with an abandoned quarry as an eastern boundary and rear wall was also made accessible by paths. There was also a nursery.
"With its irregular alternation of meadows and wooded areas, the mostly rounded paths with rondelles and some formal elements, [the park] is stuck with the formal language of the 19th century landscape style."
His two daughters, Maria and Regina Härle, took over the property in August 1950 after Härle's death and took great care of the further design of the park. With the construction of the federal highway 42 on the slope of the Siebengebirge, the area of the park area was reduced in 1975 to the current size of 4.7 hectares. The nursery was closed and the area was redesigned as an arboretum.
Today's design
The park today consists of three separate parts: the old park with the former residential buildings, the new park on the site of the former nursery and the extensive forest park with maar and orchard.
The climatically favored, south-facing hillside location offers a varied relief with surprising and exciting perspectives, e.g. B. the view into the crowns of the cedar trees in the old park or the different views of the maar.
The arboretum combines extensive plant collections of the genera juniper ( Juniperus ), false cypress ( Chamaecyparis ), yew ( Taxus ), arborvitae ( thuja ), with roses and valuable solitary plants of particularly rare woody plants such as B. Pyrenean oak ( Quercus pyrenaica "Pendula" ), cinnamon maple ( Acer griseum ), alligator juniper ( Juniperus deppeana ), Douglas fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii "Glauca Pendula" ), black cypress ( Cupressus sempervirens ), Pagoda dogwood ( Cornus controversa "Variegata" ).
New park
Maar in the forest park
Mountain Sequoia in the Old Park
Park Härle Foundation
After the death of her sister Maria in 1996, Regina Härle established the charitable foundation Arboretum Park Härle in 1997 in accordance with the will of both sisters. Regina Härle died on October 8, 2000. The administration of the foundation was transferred to the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e. V. transferred in trust. The Gesellschaft Deutsches Arboretum e.V. is responsible for the dendrological and technical maintenance of the park . V.
The foundation should maintain and develop the park area, promote science and research and make the park area accessible to the public. The park will be integrated into the international network of botanical gardens.
The Foundation Board is made up of members of the Stifterverband and the GDA.
Guided tours of the park
The arboretum is open twice a month for public tours. The tours take place in the months of March up to and including October on the first Saturday of the month and on the third Wednesday of the month.
The tours last about 1.5 to 2 hours. Participation is free, registration is not required. Individual group tours (from 15 people) are also offered.
literature
- Rita Hombach: Landscape gardens in the Rhineland. The collection of the historical inventory and studies of the garden culture of the "long" 19th century. (Contributions to architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, Volume 37) Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2010, ISBN 978-3-88462-298-8 , pp. 143, 251-253.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rita Hombach: Landscape gardens in the Rhineland. The collection of the historical inventory and studies of the garden culture of the "long" 19th century.
- ^ Foundation Arboretum Park Härle. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 55 ″ N , 7 ° 10 ′ 9 ″ E