Beutler Park

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View over the western part of the Beutler Park to the north
Beutler Park

The Beutlerpark is a listed park in the Dresdner Südvorstadt northeast of the university campus . Due to its location on the former Bornberg , the difference in altitude on the approximately 2.5 hectare area is relatively high compared to other Dresden city parks.

Under the mayor of Dresden (1895-1915) Otto Beutler the jumping facility located on the mountain was purchased in November 1913 as Schanzenpark to the public in the form of a public park released. After Beutler's death in August 1926, the Schanzenpark was renamed to Beutlerpark on October 14th in recognition of his services to the city .

location

Map of the Schanzenpark around 1914, not aligned

The park is located about 2.5 kilometers south-east of the historic Dresden city center in the inner old town. It is bounded by Reichenbachstraße in the north, which runs between the federal highway 170 leading to the south and the S 172 leading to the southeast . On the other three sides is the street Am Beutlerpark (1913–1926 Am Schanzenpark ), on which there are several villas , some of which are listed, and the SpielWerk daycare center . There is a communal playground in the park.

The terrain has a steep gradient to the northwest.

history

In the Middle Ages, the settlement of Boskau, mentioned in a document in 1315 and fallen desolate before 1449, was north of the Bornberg .

Crocuses and information board on the history of the Beutler Park

During the Prussian-German War in 1866, Prussian troops laid a belt of entrenchments around Dresden , including the heights of the Bornberg. However, the ski jump was not of great military importance, two thirds of which stretched over today's Beutler Park and one third over the area bordering to the east. After the war, construction began around the ski jump and part of the ski jump was removed again in the early 1870s. In part, gardens were laid out on the hill and fruit trees were planted.

At the turn of the century there were plans to redesign the overgrown ski jumping area, but it was still a few years to be implemented. In a development plan in 1910, the area was set as a public area and the city committed itself in 1912 to the construction of a public park , which was opened in November 1913. It comprised a pump room operated by Pfunds dairy , Dresden's first rose garden (the rose garden on the Neustädter Elbe bank was only laid out two decades later) and a moat planted with pond roses .

The moat formed from part of the Schanzengraben fell dry before the Second World War. During a major redesign in 1954/1955 it was filled with 5000 m³ of clay and rubble so that this last part of the hill disappeared from the cityscape. Half a century later, purple crocuses were planted to temporarily indicate the location of the moat. The plan considered in the 1950s to extend the park on surrounding ruins by almost 200 meters to the south to Zellescher Weg was abandoned.

The Beutler Park has been under protection as a natural and cultural monument since 1974; since 1994 it has been protected as a cultural monument under the Saxon Monument Protection Act.

After the political change , the café in the Beutlerpark opened in the former pump room .

flora

Winter Impression (2015)

Various beech species ( American beech , hanging beech ), linden species (including the Manchurian linden ), horse chestnuts , yews , aralia and a trumpet tree grow in the Beutler Park .

On the adjacent street On Beutler Park and the southbound Max-Liebermann-Straße are silver maples .

Web links

Commons : Beutlerpark  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ^ Barbara Hillen: Beutler, Gustav Otto . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  2. a b c Beutler Park. In: dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved March 20, 2015 .
  3. Auswik, Boskau. In: dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved March 20, 2015 .
  4. Südvorstadt-West. In: dresden.de. State capital Dresden, accessed on March 20, 2015 .
  5. Boskau in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony
  6. Beutlerpark - further reconstruction work begins. In: dresden.de. State capital Dresden, press and public relations, November 15, 2011, accessed on December 13, 2016 (press release).
  7. 30 silver maple trees come into the earth at the Beutlerpark. In: dresden.de. State capital Dresden, press and public relations, March 21, 2003, accessed on December 13, 2015 (press release).

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 53 "  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 35"  E