Augustenallee
Augustenallee , also known as Großer Augustenweg at the time , is the name of a path in the zoo below Wernigerode Castle , Harz district , Saxony-Anhalt .
history
After a new pleasure house in the so-called jewelry was built in 1745/46, the ruling Count Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode commissioned Hanß Flißen and Cons. to create a path "from the castle to the jewelry" , which was completed in autumn 1746. Shortly afterwards, this path was planted with linden trees, for the straight growth of which the Wernigerode master carpenter Müller made piles in February 1750. As early as 1798, Hans Dietrich von Zanthier mentioned in his description of the zoo that Augustenallee is "a wide, very nice path for driving" , which is "filled with thick trees on both sides" . The linden trees mentioned were already 50 years old at the time.
course
The original route was as follows: The beginning was under the wall [of Wernigerode Castle] on the northern side of the Thiergarten . The Annenweg, the Kleine Augustenweg and the Amalienweg started off to the right. This was followed on the right-hand side by a bench that had only existed for a few years, near which the Kleine Augustenweg merged again into the main path.
To the left, the following paths branched off from Großer Augustenweg: Kirschallee and shortly afterwards Hilleken-Steig. On the left side there was still a driveway to be used in emergencies around 1800, which also served to remove wood, but was reforested during the Westphalian period. Where the Kleine Augustenweg merged with the Hauptweg on the right, the plum avenue branched off to the left, which was renamed Kleine Kirschallee after 1800. Here, beside the avenue, there was a depression, presumably an old sinkhole, which has the shape of a basin and is now cultivated with birch and spruce. It is called the Joseph's Pit.
On the right side was the Veltheims Bank on the other side of a small oak forest, from which one had a view of the flat land of the County of Wernigerode . At that time, not far from this bank, from Großer Augustenweg, Marienweg, Kastanienallee, Correct Way and to the left, next to the plantation created for the production of foreign wood species, the Nussallee. At the site of this plantation there is now a small meadow area on which the beautiful fir tree stood until 1940.
A little further, Count Christian Friedrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode writes in addition to Zanthier's notes, there is an old system of arcades and ponds, which is otherwise called the Solitude, now the New World. One of these ponds still exists today as a signposted wetland biotope.
The destination of the Großer Augustenweg was the Augusten- or Green House, both terms were still in use around 1800. Not far from this pleasure house was a game shed, where the Great Augustenweg meets the Gräfin-Weg.