Arboretum Zurich
The arboretum is a park in Zurich . It is located in the Enge Quarter on the western bank of Lake Zurich and is part of the quay that was inaugurated in 1887. It has been largely in its original condition since June 2016.
The park was laid out in the style of the late landscape garden on a level terrain reclaimed from the lake and was originally intended as a place for botanical training. Today the arboretum is mainly used as a leisure facility and in summer as a bathing facility.
The arboretum includes a rock collection and the first alpine panorama of Zurich. The aviary company Zurich has its building on the premises of the arboretum.
development
The 41,360 m² area of the arboretum was created as part of the backfill work for the construction of the quay between 1883 and 1887. Originally, a conventional park was to be added to the quay. In 1885, shortly before the start of construction, a group of botany and geology professors submitted proposals to the Quaiirektion to enrich the park concept. As a result, an arboretum commission was formed, which also included the landscape architects Evariste Mertens and Otto Froebel and the botanist Carl Schroeter . On the advice of the commission, a tree collection with foreign trees, a rock collection and an alpine panorama explaining the nearby mountains were added to the facility.
After decades of construction, changes were gradually made from around 1940 that were not conducive to the original concept. So three one-man bunkers were built on the site and paths were paved. In addition, the high-maintenance mountain plants of the Alpinum have been replaced by more easy-care flowering shrubs.
A renewal process has been underway since the park maintenance system was developed in 1985. The original gravel surfaces of paths were restored and outdated stocks were replanted in accordance with the scientific concept of yore. In June 2016, after a nine-month renovation period, the bank facilities were reopened, which were restored to their original state in accordance with monument conservation criteria.
The arboretum is now considered a historical garden monument in Zurich.
construction
Based on the Schröter concept, the tree collection is divided into three segments. The largest includes the nine flora districts of southern Switzerland, the Alps, the Jura, the Mediterranean and the Orient, the southern states of the USA, the eastern states of the USA and Canada, California, Japan and China. The second segment includes the four plant-systematic flora districts elm, maple, ash and beech. The third segment consists solely of the Tertiary flora and fauna district .
An alpinum, a collection of mountain plants, was originally set up on the lake side of the hill. This area also contains original rock formations from the Alps, as well as the Alpine panorama board. There is no on-site explanation of the structure. However, all trees are labeled.
literature
- Arboretum (leaflet), published by the City of Zurich, Grün Stadt Zürich, Gartendenkmalpflege, 2009.
- From Bürkliplatz to the succulent collection. Published by Grün Stadt Zürich, May 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Herbert Pachmann: Aphrodite, 1921. In: Zürcher Schaustücke - 111 sculptures in the public space of the city. Norderstedt 2014, p. 52.
- ↑ Restoration of the shore zone in the arboretum largely completed. Media release by the Civil Engineering and Waste Management Department of the City of Zurich, June 28, 2016.
- ↑ Aviary . Website of the Aviary Society Zurich. Retrieved July 26, 2010.
- ↑ a b Arboretum on the website of the City of Zurich, accessed on June 29, 2016.
- ↑ Denise Marquard: Unobstructed view of the lake and the Alps. In: Tages-Anzeiger , June 28, 2016.
- ↑ Irène Troxler: Bank zone in the arboretum renovated - unobstructed view of Lake Zurich. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , June 28, 2016.
Coordinates: 47 ° 21 '46 " N , 8 ° 32' 11" E ; CH1903: six hundred and eighty-two thousand nine hundred and thirty / 246,344