Boehlepark

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Boehle's bull figure was in Boehlepark from 1910 and is now in Günthersburgpark .

The Boehlepark is a two- hectare park in the Hessian city of Frankfurt am Main . It is named after the painter, draftsman and sculptor Fritz Boehle, who worked in Frankfurt and died there in 1916 .

description

The Boehlepark is located in the south of Frankfurt's Sachsenhausen district in southern Main on the Sachsenhausen mountain. Immediately northeast of the park is the southern of the four medieval Frankfurt waiting towers , the Sachsenhausen waiting tower , part of the Frankfurt Landwehr . With Darmstädter Landstrasse , a section of Bundesstrasse 3 leads past the park area in a north-south direction; Directly in front of the park, the B 3 branches off to the south-east into Babenhäuser Landstrasse. The Frankfurt Südfriedhof is also located on the main road northeast of Boehlepark .

Similar to the water park in the Frankfurt-Nordend district, the Boehlepark also has an elevated tank to supply the Frankfurt population with water . Due to its location on a federal road, Boehlepark has good transport links. Bus routes 30, 36, OF-50, 653 and night bus routes n7 and n71 stop at the Sachsenhäuser Warte stop in front of the park .

history

With the construction of the third Frankfurt water pipeline from 1856 to 1859, Sachsenhausen's central water supply began. In 1902, the Sachsenhausen drinking water tank was put into operation. It was the first deacidification system in Europe. The Boehlepark was laid out around the drinking water tank.

Five massive sandstone buildings and a small technology house were built in the park. All buildings are representative buildings.

The park's technical facilities have been centralized since 2005 and are now controlled from the control room in Niederrad . Since there were no longer any employees on site who could provide locking and security services, Hessenwasser GmbH, as the owner of the facility , offered the city ​​to take over the park. After the city decided against a takeover for cost reasons, the park was closed to the public in 2004, but is still maintained by the Hessenwasser company .

Since then, the local council has made several attempts to open it up. For this, however, the brittle balustrades of the sandstone portals would have to be renovated. The city of Frankfurt does not want to bear the costs of around 700,000 euros and the annual maintenance costs of 60,000 euros, since the park is located in the immediate vicinity of Frankfurt's green belt and therefore there is little need for the population.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Environment Agency of the City of Frankfurt am Main (Ed.): The Green Belt Leisure Map, 7th edition, 2011
  2. ↑ Boehlepark: entry prohibited; in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from August 15, 2012

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 14.5 ″  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 24.9 ″  E