Barmer Beautification Association
The Barmer Beautification Association is a beautification association founded in 1864 in the then independent town of Barmen , now a district of Wuppertal . The association owns the 100 hectare Barmer Anlagen , the largest publicly accessible private park in Germany.
history
It was founded by the Barmen dignitaries Robert Barthels , Emil Blank , August Engels , Friedrich von Eynern , Johann Wilhelm Fischer , Friedrich Wilhelm Ostermann , Carl Theodor Rübel , Adolf Schlieper , Oskar Schuchard , Emil Wemhöner and Karl Wolff. Wilhelm Werlé was elected the first chairman of the association .
The aim of the association was to create recreational areas for the population of the heavily industrialized city. To this end, the association bought large areas in the Barmer Südhöhen and in 1866 commissioned the landscape architect Joseph Clemens Weyhe to design a large park . In the course of the following years, the association had numerous buildings, monuments and works of art erected in the park, such as the Barmer Planetarium , the Fischertal dairy or the Toelleturm .
Today the association, which works in close cooperation with the city of Wuppertal, is headed by Peter Prange.
List of chairmen:
- 1864–1880: Wilhelm Werlé (1804–1880)
- 1880–1899: Otto Schüller (1829–1899)
- 1899–1913: Robert Barthels
- 1913–1931: Otto Budde
- 1932-1945: Paul Neumann
- 1945–1967: Wilhelm Vorwerk (1889–1967)
- 1967–1992: Ernst-Günter Plutte (1916–2005)
- 1992-20 ??: Dieter Jung
- 20xx– : Peter Prange
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barmer Verschönerungsverein ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2014 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. , Accessed May 2014
