Baurs Park

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Park plan around 1880

Baurs Park is a public park in the Hamburg district of Blankenese in the Altona district .

description

In the period from 1802 to 1817 the Altona merchant Georg Friedrich Baur acquired eleven plots of land on the Elbe slope in Blankenese and from 1817 to 1832 had them designed by the architect and landscape gardener Joseph Ramée into a romantic landscape park in the English style: with temples , forest huts , a Chinese one Pagoda tower and a cannon hill from which the own incoming ships could be greeted with gunfire . From 1829 to 1836, Baur had a new mansion in the park built by Ole Jörgen Schmidt (1793–1848) and Johann Matthias Hansen, a two-story plastered building with a sandstone base on a rectangular floor plan. There he received the sovereign King Christian VIII (Denmark and Norway) and the queen when the couple visited their provinces after their coronation on June 28, 1840.

After Baur's death in 1865, his relatives continued to run the park and the buildings as entails . In the middle of the 19th century, despite being privately owned, the park had limited public access at certain times. In 1921 the Baur family sold the park after some parcels had been separated as villa plots. The manor house (today Mühlenberger Weg 33/35 ) was given the name Katharinenhof in 1923 by the current owner LR Müller . After Blankenese was incorporated by the Groß-Altona law of 1927, the city of Altona acquired the park and was in turn incorporated ten years later by the Groß-Hamburg law . On January 24, 1940, the Katharinenhof with portal and stable building was placed under monument protection. From 1941 the house was the seat of the Luftgau Command . After the war, emergency quarters were set up there, and the park was partially used for growing vegetables. After a renovation in the mid-1950s, the Katharinenhof was the seat of the Blankenese local authority until 2005. The associated stable served as a public book hall , which earned it the nickname muse stable . In 2009 the buildings were sold to a private investor.

One of the two Blankenese lighthouses stands on the 45 m high elevation called Kanonenberg .

  • Lithograph of the park 1845

  • Lithograph by Wilhelm Heuer 1860

  • View of the Elbe

  • Lighthouse in the park

  • Katharinenhof mansion

See also

literature

  • Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (Ed.): Hamburg-Lexikon. 2nd, revised edition. Zeiseverlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-9805687-9-2 .
  • Paul Th. Hoffmann: The Elbchaussee. Their country estates, people and fates. 8th edition. Broschek, Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-7672-0496-7 , pp. 262-271

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Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 23 "  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 51"  E