Bruehl (Quedlinburg)

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Bruehl
Coat of arms Quedlinburg.svg
Park in Quedlinburg
Bruehl
Panorama of the Brühl, in the foreground the abbey garden
Basic data
place Quedlinburg
District Quedlinburg
Surrounding streets Brühlstrasse
Buildings Monuments, drinking water wells
use
User groups pedestrian
Park design four main avenues, each with diagonal paths
Technical specifications
Parking area 15 ha

Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 53 "  N , 11 ° 7 ′ 55.3"  E

Map: Saxony-Anhalt
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The Brühl is an approx. 15 hectare park south of the Schlossberg in Quedlinburg . The listed building of the Brühlpark is part of the project Gartenträume Sachsen-Anhalt , which comprises 40 gardens and is registered in the Quedlinburg monument register.

history

Map (1782). The square at the bottom right is the park
Entrance to the Brühl, 1905
Memorial to Gustav Brecht

In 1179 the Brühl was mentioned in a document as the property of the St. Wiperti Monastery. It was an extensive, swampy meadow area that was previously owned by the monastery. In the course of the Reformation , the property became the property of the women's monastery. From the middle of the 17th century, the Quedlinburgers visited the area as a so-called Lusthölzchen.

Abbess Anna Dorothea, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar , had the four main avenues laid out in 1685 and planted with linden trees. A garden square was created. In the middle there was a roundabout which everyone ran towards. The two diagonal avenues were laid out in 1757 under Abbess Anna Amalia , sister of Frederick the Great . After the abolition of the monastery in 1803 ( secularization ) and the city passed to Prussia, Brühl became royal property. In 1818 it came as a gift to Friedrich Wilhelm III. in the possession of the city. In 1866, the Brühl was redesigned into an English-style landscape park based on plans by Eduard Petzold . Various rare trees were planted. Since 2001, the Brühl, together with the Abbey Garden to the north, has been one of the 40 parks garden dreams. Historical parks in Saxony-Anhalt .

The entire Brühlpark is a zone 2 water protection area and several wells are used to supply the city of Quedlinburg and neighboring communities with drinking water. Due to the purity of the water, the water has flowed without treatment since the 1990s (when the old waterworks was shut down) directly over the Altenburg reservoir. In order to reduce the degree of hardness from 22  ° dH to 5 ° dH, a new waterworks was opened next to the Brühlpark in 2019 to soften the water coming from eight wells, which works on the principle of reverse osmosis .

Monuments in the Brühl

  • At the east entrance in front of the waterworks there is a monument erected in 1907 for the Lord Mayor Gustav Brecht . The bronze plaque with a relief of Brecht on the memorial was created by the Quedlinburg-born sculptor Richard Anders .
  • The monument to the geographer Carl Ritter was unveiled in 1865. It was originally located on today's Peace Square and was moved to its current location in the 1930s. It consists of a bust depicting Carl Ritter created by Eduard Uhlenhuth , which is located in a sandstone tabernacle .
  • A memorial to Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , which goes back to an initiative of Quedlinburg citizens from 1824, is also located in the Brühl park. It was financed, among other things, by organizing a large music festival led by Carl Maria von Weber , at which Dessau contralto Adelheid Müller sang. She was the wife of the poet Wilhelm Müller , who also wrote press reports about the event. The bust of Christian Friedrich Tieck is on a pedestal by Karl Friedrich Schinkel , who was also the architect of the ensemble. The monument was unveiled on July 7, 1831 and is at the end of an axis.
  • Memorial stone to the Bodehochwasser New Year's Eve 1925
  • The last surviving boundary stone between the monastery and the city of Quedlinburg of the 24 stones, based on the agreement made in 1539 between Duke Heinrich of Saxony and Abbess Anna II on the jurisdiction of the hereditary bailiff in the field and the Concordien Recess from 1685 between Abbess Anna Dorothea and Elector Johann Georg III., Who set 24 border posts between the city and the monastery, were set. The piles were replaced by carefully worked stones in 1746. It bears the inscription: No. 17. Renovatum 1746 . The Munzenberg and the urban part of Steinholz (three unnumbered stones from 1725 have been preserved here) were separated by special stones.

Brühl in literature

The Brühl is described in Theodor Fontane's novel Cécile :

She agreed, though more out of politeness than conviction, because, like all Berliners, she suffered from the urge to learn and could never hear or see enough. By the way, Gordon gave the assurance that he would make it merciful. There were four things that could only be a matter of concern: the town hall, the church, then the castle and finally the Brühl, "The Brühl?" Said Rosa. 'What is he supposed to do for us? That's the street where the fur traders live. At least in Leipzig. "
“But not in Quedlinburg, my dear lady. The Quedlinburger Brühl is more aesthetic and is a zoo or a Bois de Boulogne with beautiful trees and all kinds of pictures and structures. Carl Ritter, the famous geographer, has a cast-iron monument in it and Klopstock has a temple with a bust. Both were born Quedlinburgers. "
"So after the Brühl," sighed Cecile, who had absolutely no sense for small temples and cast-iron monuments. “After the Brühl. Is it far from the city? "
"No, my most gracious lady, not far."

cards

Information on the park structure can be found:

  • Wilfried Ehbrecht, Peter Johanek, Jürgen Lafrenz (eds.): German Historical City Atlas (published by the Institute for Comparative City History, Münster), No. 1 - Quedlinburg (Authors: Ulrich Reuling , Daniel Stracke, Thomas Kaling, Dieter Overhageböck ), Münster 2006, plate 2.1 (city map 1782 after CC Voigt), plate 4.1 (Quedlinburg, development phases up to approx. 1900, here: "Brühlwiese"), plate 7 (Quedlinburg, topographical maps 1822/23, 1903, 1919 / 34, 1997).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Petra Korn: Water is softer . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . Quedlinburg October 22, 2019 ( Zweckverband-ostharz.de [PDF; accessed on August 13, 2020]).
  2. ^ Quedlinburg waterworks. Process equipment. (PDF; 123 kB) Eliquo KGN, 2019, accessed on August 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Bernd Feicke: 175 years of the Klopstock monument in the Quedlinburger Brühl, in: Quedlinburger Annalen, Heimatkundliches Jahrbuch für Stadt und Region Quedlinburg 9 (2006), pp. 101-105.
  4. ^ Hermann Lorenz: The boundary stone on the left bank of the Bode in front of the Brühl , in: Am Heimatborn, supplement to the Quedlinburger Wochenblatt, No. 147 (November 22, 1927), p. 607f .; other stones cf. CC Voigt, city ​​map Quedlinburg 1782 , s. Cards; Bernd Feicke: Baroque border fossils of the office (Reinstein-) Westerhausen ... , in: Westerhäuser Heimatblätter 6–7 (1998/99), pp. 4–7.
  5. ^ Theodor Fontane : Cécile in the Gutenberg-DE project