Eppstein mountain park

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Main house Villa Anna in the mountain park Eppstein

The Bergpark Villa Anna (also Neufville facility ) is located on the Jähenberg in the Hessian town of Eppstein on the southern edge of the Taunus . The approximately ten hectare site impresses with exotic trees and interesting buildings. Two parks in Hesse are called Bergpark , Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe in Kassel and Bergpark Villa Anna in Eppstein.

history

The Frankfurt merchant and banker Alfred von Neufville (1856–1900) wanted to build a summer residence in the second half of the 19th century. For health reasons, too, a place in the Taunus was ideal. Von Neufville bought ten hectares on the Jähenberg on the outskirts of the town of Eppstein im Taunus and had several buildings built in the style of the time from around 1884. He named the main house Villa Anna after his wife Anna, née Mumm von Schwarzenstein (* 1860), daughter of Frankfurt's first mayor Daniel Heinrich Mumm von Schwarzenstein .

In order to create a park out of the steeply sloping forest, meadow and arable land, he was looking for a garden architect. Well-known garden designers in Frankfurt at that time were above all Heinrich Siesmayer (creator of the palm garden) and Andreas Weber (creator of the gardens of the Frankfurt zoo and Nice am Main). Andreas Weber gave the order from Neufville. Weber designed lines of sight , had paths laid and exotic trees and shrubs planted.

Alfred and Anna von Neufville had two daughters, Clara and Hilda, and did not get very old. In 1933, their heirs sold a third of the property to the city of Eppstein and two thirds to the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . The Evangelical Women's Aid ran a maternity home here. In 1981 the Evangelical Church sold its part to youth counseling and youth welfare in Frankfurt. This association runs the inpatient youth welfare service Villa Anna .

The mountain park has been a listed building since 2003, along with its paths and trees as well as its architecture.

trees and shrubs

40 meter high sequoia trees, Douglas firs, tree-high rhododendrons and azaleas and a Japanese sickle spruce grow in the park. In the Eppsteiner Bergpark Villa Anna there are 150 remarkable conifers and around 75 extraordinary deciduous trees.

The Forest Director a. D. Hubert Rößner examined the mountain park in summer 2008. The oldest trees are older than the Bergpark, an approximately 150-year-old English oak and two beeches of the same age. The trees planted by the landscape architect Andreas Weber are around 120–130 years old. The strongest example is a sequoia with a circumference of 480 centimeters. This is followed by a red oak (450 centimeters), another sequoia (400 centimeters) and a red beech (360 centimeters in circumference). The tallest specimens are two Douglas firs at 43 meters. This is followed by a Douglas fir (41 meters) and two sequoias (40 and 39 meters).

building

It is not known which architect Alfred von Neufville commissioned. He created three houses in the country house style with decorative half-timbering: the Villa Anna (main house), the neighboring cavalier house for guests and the coach house.

The Swiss house in the mountain park Eppstein

The Swiss house alluded to Nassau Switzerland, as the Eppstein area was called earlier, because it is reminiscent of the scenic charms of Switzerland.

A log cabin-like garden house and the pigeon house covered with glazed tiles lead over to the dairy. It was rebuilt after 1945 after a fire and is no longer part of the park. A small artificial ruin was also built.

The Neufvilleturm, built in 1894, is a replica of a castle with a keep and hall structure. The master's hunting and art collection was housed here.

The tower has not been inhabited since March 1, 2016 and is to be initiated in the future by a foundation to be set up by the Schönerungsverein Eppstein e. V. and the city of Eppstein (as of 2019). In the meantime, the ingrown area and the tower have developed into a popular "lost place " and attracts urban explorers .

Support group Bergpark Villa Anna e. V.

The mountain park has overgrown today, the old trees and bushes are still there. The Bergpark Villa Anna e. V. would like to revitalize the mountain park.

First, some of the original lines of sight in the park area are to be restored, a circular route is to be signposted and a leaflet is to be prepared. In addition, the restoration work on the pigeon house should be completed. The aim is to establish the park with its trees and architecture in the style of 1900 as a natural and cultural-historical attraction. The support group takes tours in the mountain park.

In May 2014, the Bergpark Villa Anna e. V. dissolved. The tasks of maintaining and maintaining the hiking trails in the mountain park are carried out by the Schönerungsverein Eppstein e. V. taken over.

literature

  • Bertold Picard: History in Eppstein . Verlag Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1995, p. 92 f.
  • Bertold Picard: GartenRheinMain: From the monastery garden to the regional park . Published by the KulturRegion Frankfurt Rhein-MainGmbH, 2nd edition, Cocon-Verlag, Hanau 2008, p. 94 f.
  • Michael Nitz, Simone Balsam, Sonja Bonin: Cultural monuments in Hessen: Main-Taunus-Kreis. Published by the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Verlag Theiss, Stuttgart 2003, pp. 128–131.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stationary facility of youth counseling and youth welfare e. V.
  2. ↑ without author (wein.hk): New lords wanted for Neufville tower. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse. January 21, 2016, accessed September 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Andrea Rost: Rescue for the Neufvilleturm in Eppstein. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. February 16, 2019, accessed September 28, 2019 .
  4. ^ Hendrik Jung: Eppsteiner Neufville Tower is to be saved. In: Wiesbaden Courier. February 18, 2019, accessed September 28, 2019 .
  5. ^ Neufville tower in the forest near Eppstein. In: Travelfish. June 30, 2017, accessed on August 24, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ Bergpark association dissolves - VVE takes over the gem . In: Eppsteiner Zeitung . May 28, 2014.

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 17.7 "  N , 8 ° 23 ′ 15.6"  E