Bürgerpark (Bremerhaven)

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Planning board at the entrance

The Bremerhaven Citizens' Park is a 64-hectare park that is located behind the main train station in Bremerhaven-Geestemünde . The entire complex is entered in the state monument list of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen.

history

Three Bremerhaven citizens had the idea of ​​setting up a small forest near the city for recreation. The Nordsee-Zeitung reported in 1964: "The idea came from the citizens, the money came from the citizens and it was the citizens who sought relaxation in the park".

The motor for the creation of the park was the pedagogue Johann Ganten , his two colleagues H. Brünjes and Johann Wichels. They approached Geestemünder Mayor Wilhelm Klussmann with their plan . Klußmann called a meeting, and on December 12, 1899, the Geestemünder Waldverein was founded. Ganten and his father-in-law, senator and master bricklayer Conrad Allermann, suggested an area behind the Bremerhaven cemetery in Wulsdorf . However, the Quaet-Faslem State Forestry Council appeared to be too small. So it came to the current location and the further decision to create not just a forest, but a forest park.

It was not until 1906 that the association owned the entire site after various acquisitions and some expropriations. An initial plan by the Bremer Bürgerpark director, Ohrt, was not implemented as too costly. The garden engineer Hoff from Harburg developed another plan free of charge, the realization of which cost 200,000 marks (1871) . The park opened on June 1, 1908. Later a forest tavern was built. It was used as the Officers Club of the American Armed Forces after World War II . It came back into German hands in 1954 and existed as a hotel-restaurant until the turn of the millennium .

park

pond

The 64-hectare Bürgerpark Bremerhaven in the Geestemünde district, just a few minutes' walk from the main train station, offers a wide range of leisure activities; These include, among other things: near-natural forest areas, open meadow areas, designed gardens and walking paths.

A playground is located adjacent to the large playground in the south-eastern area. Rented boats can be used on the boat pond; water birds cavort there too. You can prepare your food on barbecue areas. On the east side there are various sports fields with tennis courts and athletics facilities. World champions in roller art skating trained on the Bremerhaven roller-skating rink on the eastern edge . The fitness course and the Finnbahn offer sporty opportunities. Open-air events take place in summer.

Sculptures and monuments

There are several sculptures and monuments in the western part of the park.

  • The fountain system at the south-west entrance was first realized in 1983 on the forecourt of the Bremerhaven city theater based on a design by Barna von Sartory and Peter de Longueville. It was inaugurated at its new location in the Bürgerpark in March 2000. The fountain sculpture consists of two granite prisms that are roughly machined from the outside and face each other, which have a smooth cut surface on the inside, between which water foams down through nozzles arranged in a circle and is taken up in a water channel.
  • Hein Mück sculpture from 2011 as a carving in the rose garden of the Bürgerpark by Jürgen Buhmann, Manfred Beulke and Reinholf Heinen
  • Sculpture Hein Mück as a limestone figure
  • Sculpture: In 1981, Emilia Kaus from Poland worked during a two-month sculpture symposium at the main station and chiseled a crouching figure out of a granite boulder, a figure sunk in deep contemplation.
  • Kaiser oak: For the 25th anniversary of Kaiser Wilhelm II, it was planted not far from the Kammerweg entrance, later bordered with an iron grating and a boulder with the engraving "Kaiser oak from 1913 for Kaiser Wilhelm II." added.
  • Bernhard-Onken-Stein: A boulder weighing tons was erected in December 1956 in honor of Bernhard Onken, the generous sponsor of the park, on Adolf-Hoff-Weg. The then horticultural director Hans W. Schmidt: "With it (the memorial stone) all supporters and active friends of the Bürgerpark should be honored and recalled in the memory of our generation. The young city of Bremerhaven thanks them from the bottom of the heart."
  • Sculpture: Memorial to the memory of the mothers and children who died in World War II. Valeria Gramatzki, then an art teacher at the Pestalozzi School, created this stone-carved memorial in 1955 and donated it to the city.

photos

  • Fountain at the main entrance

  • Hein Mück in the rose garden

  • Hein Mück figure

  • Emilia Kaus: person immersed in deep contemplation

  • Emperor oak with associated stone

  • Bernhard Onken Stein

  • Memorial "In memory of the women and children who died in World War II"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monument database of the LfD
  2. ↑ Nordsee-Zeitung, April 25, 1964, From the citizens for the citizens
  3. ↑ The teacher Johann Wichels (1848–1936) spent his entire service time in Geestendorf / Geestemünde. The path to the demolished Bismarck Tower (Bremerhaven) was named after him in 1966.
  4. ^ Sculpture by Emilia Kaus
  5. ^ Willy Wolff: The Geestemünder Bürgerpark in Bremerhaven, Dec. 1990. Druckhaus Lehe-Nord. P. 20
  6. ^ Willy Wolff: The Geestemünder Bürgerpark in Bremerhaven, Dec. 1990. Druckhaus Lehe-Nord. P. 22
  7. ^ Willy Wolff: The Geestemünder Bürgerpark in Bremerhaven, Dec. 1990. Druckhaus Lehe-Nord. P. 21
  8. ^ Willy Wolff: The Geestemünder Bürgerpark in Bremerhaven, Dec. 1990. Druckhaus Lehe-Nord. P. 23

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 21.4 "  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 20"  E