Barnstorfer Forest (Rostock)
The Barnstorfer Wald , also known as Barnstorfer Anlagen , is a local recreation area in the southwest of Rostock in the districts of Hansaviertel and Gartenstadt .
location
The area covers an area of 156 hectares, which is divided by the Rennbahnallee. The eastern part, closer to the city, consists of a more park-like area and the area of the Rostock Zoo . The western part has remained in the forest except for an extension area of the zoo and a wildlife restaurant.
The area is connected to the city center by tram lines 3 and 6 as well as to Südstadt and Holbeinplatz by bus line 28.
history
The name comes from the village of Barnstorf, a former district that lay in the area of today's garden city north of the forest and extended to today's Reutershagen .
In the years 1810/11, the then "Barnstorfer Tannen" were almost completely cut down for the construction of 764 barracks and the extraction of firewood for Napoleonic troops.
In 1839 a tavern was set up in a forester's house on what is now the "Trotzenburg" . In 1881 a horse-drawn tram was built there, which in 1904 became an electrically operated tram . The zoo was opened in 1899 and later became the zoo .
On June 21, 1901, the Bismarck Tower was inaugurated on the "Bismarck-Höhe" in the Barnstorfer Forest . The award-winning design "Götterdämmerung" came from the architect Wilhelm Kreis . Demolished in 1935 and moved to Sedanplatz (today the event meadow and lodge), it had to make way for the expansion of the Rostock Zoo there in 1950 .
During the Third Reich , a Thingplatz was built on the edge of the Barnstorfer Forest at today's Platz der Jugend . After the Second World War (1949/1950) the St. John's Church was built at the entrance to the forest from the stones of the Jakobikirche, which was damaged during the war and later demolished , and is one of the emergency churches based on plans by Otto Bartning .
During the GDR era there were plans to set up a culture park in the Barnstorfer Forest. Even if these plans were not realized, the area was one of the most important recreational areas of the city with various cultural and gastronomic facilities. On national holidays, the Barnstorfer Forest was the scene of various folk festivals .
In the 1970s and 80s, an extension of the Rostock Zoo was built in the western part of the forest. The Westfriedhof was created on the western edge of the forest.
After the reunification in the GDR , the importance of the area decreased considerably. Most of the excursion restaurants, snack bars and leisure facilities were closed, and the open-air stage at the Platz der Jugend was demolished in 1995. The Arena-Theater am Kastanienplatz, a circus-like building for theater and concert events, was dismantled in the early 1980s. In addition to the zoo, there is still a traffic garden operated by the pioneer organization to train children today .
At the end of the 1990s, the impending deterioration could be halted through a few beautification measures. After a reconstruction and modernization, the "Trotzenburg" opposite the old zoo entrance at the tram stop was reopened in 2001 as a brewery guest house. Nevertheless, the area did not achieve its former importance by far.
Individual evidence
- ^ Mathias Manke, Ernst Münch (Ed.): Under Napoleon's eagle; Mecklenburg in the French era. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7950-3747-5 , p. 125.
- ↑ Karsten Schröder: The Hanseatic City of Rostock and its Baltic Sea resort Warnemünde. Neuer Hochsch.-Schr.-Verlag, Rostock 1999, ISBN 3-929544-78-4 , p. 162.
- ↑ The Bismarck Tower in Rostock. on: bismarcktuerme.de
- ↑ Sieglinde Seele: Lexicon of Bismarck Monuments. Imhof-Verlag, Petersberg 2005, ISBN 3-86568-019-4 , pp. 337-338.
- ^ Scientific journal of the University of Rostock. Volume 7/8, 1958, p. 158.
- ^ Helmut Weihsmann: Building under the swastika. Promedia, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85371-113-8 , p. 769.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′ 51.8 " N , 12 ° 5 ′ 28.5" E