Breidings garden
Breidings Garten is a landscape park in the Lower Saxon town of Soltau , which was laid out from 1850 on the English model and has been a listed building since 1993 . For the German Foundation for Monument Protection , the park is "unique in its diversity throughout Lower Saxony".
location
Breidings Garten is located south of the Soltau city center in the Böhme floodplain and therefore has a relatively high groundwater level and moist soil.
history
The garden was laid out in 1850 by the Soltau entrepreneur and industrialist August Röders, founder of the Carl Breiding & Sohn company , which had been successful in the manufacture of bed springs and felt for decades. What began on a small scale with the planting of trees and bushes, the creation of ponds and paths and the construction of a small country house, quickly grew into a 12 hectare landscape park through numerous renovations . After numerous renovations, the country house developed into an Italian-style villa. In 1870 an artificial castle ruin was built. Numerous rhododendron plantings can be seen as typical elements of the 1930s .
Several bombs and an exploded ammunition truck at the end of World War II, as well as a hurricane in 1972, had caused significant damage to the park. After the war, refugees lived in the villa, who, due to the lack of food, turned the pleasure ground into a potato field. In the 1960s, a few tennis courts were created on the edge of the facility, which also did not improve the overall picture. Nevertheless, the park was placed under monument protection in 1993. In 2001 azaleas were planted on the east side of the large pond , but because they interrupt the historical line of sight from the villa to the park and the color did not match the rest of the rhododendrons, they should be removed again.
In 2005 the company Carl Breiding & Sohn filed for bankruptcy and the garden could no longer be tended, so that it was increasingly overgrown and should be sold. When it became known that an interested party was planning a partial demolition in order to build new residential units, the citizens of Soltau founded the Breidings Garten eV association in 2007 in order to preserve the garden. In the foreclosure auction of the site in 2008, the specially established foundation was awarded the contract. The city of Soltau, Volksbank Lüneburger Heide and members of the Röders family participated in the purchase price of 260,000 euros . In order to secure the long-term maintenance of the park, it is planned to set up a youth hostel of the German Youth Hostel Association on the site.
investment
Standing on a slight hill, the Italian-style villa represents the central point of the park. A staircase leads down from the villa to a pleasure ground , a large lawn with numerous carpets of flowers, which is traversed by curved paths. This is followed by the large pond with a fountain. Behind it begins the actual park landscape with lawns and meadows and various groups of trees. At the northern edge of the pond there is an artificial castle ruin, which also serves as a water reservoir for the fountain and the park irrigation. A kitchen garden with an orchard and a nursery and a lime tree avenue leading towards Tetendorf also belong to the complex. To the north of the villa there are various hedgerows .
Tree species
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A total of 38 different tree species are planted on the park area. In particular, native deciduous species such as English oak , summer linden , red beech , black alder , hornbeam , sand birch and ash shape the picture. There are also some specimens of sycamore maple , Norway maple and the common hazel . Less common species are copper beech , hanging ash and hanging elm . There are also the spruce and European yew needles . Other foreign deciduous trees are red oak , horse chestnut , robinia , silver maple , tulip tree , sweetgum , on conifers there are also the species Douglas fir , coastal fir , Lawson's false cypress , occidental arborvitae , giant arborvitae , sitka spruce and Nootka false cypress . There is one specimen each of the Canadian hemlock and the Nordmann fir . The indigenous and North American species mentioned are supplemented by the Sawara false cypress from Japan and a primeval sequoia from China .
Association and Foundation
The Breidings Garten eV association was founded in 2007 and takes care of the garden. In 2008, André Poldrack and Urs Leyhe from Leibniz University Hannover developed a concept for the future maintenance of the park in their diploma thesis in cooperation with the association. The association tries to make the people of Soltau aware of the park and organizes photo exhibitions or the sale of postcards and photo calendars. The chairman of the association is Horst Geißler.
In 2008 a foundation was established that bought the garden in a foreclosure auction and has since been responsible for promoting the garden. Rüdiger Röders-Arnold, a descendant of the Röders family of industrialists, is chairman of the foundation.
Web links
- Web presence of the Breidings Garten eV association
- Breidings garden on meinarboretum.de
- Information, news, pictures and videos on the website of the city of Soltau
literature
- André Poldrack, Urs Leyhe: Breidings Great Garden. The summer residence of an industrial family in Soltau. Considerations on the use of garden monument preservation , diploma thesis, Leibniz University Hannover, 2008.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article: Secret tips for parks & gardens: Soltau - In the spirit of progress , In: Monuments , edition 4/2020, p. 14.
- ↑ "Three Musketeers" save a park: This park should give way to a residential area. Article on the pages of the Hamburger Abendblatt from June 24, 2009
Coordinates: 52 ° 58 ′ 38.1 ″ N , 9 ° 50 ′ 34.6 ″ E