Brentano Park

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Site plan of the Brentano Park from 1895
Teaching pavilion in the former school garden in the park. Architect: Eugen Kaufmann
Brentano's summer house on the western edge of the park
Former kitchen house of the Brentano country house

The Brentano Park is next to the Solms Park one of the two major parks in the Frankfurt district of Rödelheim . It is about four hectares in size.

history

The Frankfurt businessman Georg Brentano acquired the site - a country house with a garden - in 1808 from the Prussian Councilor Basse, who had the garden laid out on the banks of the Nidda River in 1770 . Brentano expanded the park to around 14 hectares by 1823 through the purchase of surrounding land. Among other things, the Petrihaus on the other side of the Nidda belonged to it, which today stands outside the actual park area and served Georg Brentano as a refuge. The country house also included the small garden house, which was used as a bathhouse, as well as the coach house or kitchen house. Both have been preserved to this day, but the actual country house no longer exists. Many well-known personalities such as Johann-Wolfgang von Goethe , the Brothers Grimm and their brother, the painter Ludwig Emil Grimm , Marianne von Willemer , Adele Schopenhauer and Prince Pückler were happy to be guests here.

In 1926 the city of Frankfurt acquired the park and in the following two years converted it into a park for the citizens of the city with walking paths, meadows and a school work garden. In the course of the Nidda regulation in the years 1927–1930, the northern part of the park was separated and converted into the public outdoor swimming pool Brentanobad .

The pavilion with the rose garden, today a prominent point in the park, was built in 1931 according to plans by Eugen Kaufmann (1892–1984) as part of the New Frankfurt project . Other notable places in the park are the war victims memorial and the memorial to the Rödelheim synagogue, which was destroyed in 1938 . Today the park with its old trees is a place for recreation. A specialty is the approximately 260 year old ginkgo in Rödelheim , which is also called "Goethe ginkgo " because the poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is said to have particularly valued the tree. In 2007, the renovation of the park began, with some areas being redesigned to restore the original planting and pathways. In the park there is a pedunculate oak with a chest height of 6.84 m (2015). More information about the tree population (type and planting date) is available online in the Frankfurt tree register .

Transport links

The closest bus stop to the Brentanopark operated by the Frankfurter Verkehrsgesellschaft VgF is the Alt-Rödelheim stop served by lines 34 and 72, a few meters west of the park. The nearest stop on the S3 – S5 lines of the Rhein-Main S-Bahn is Frankfurt-Rödelheim station , around 500 meters west of the Brentano Park.

literature

  • Sonja Thelen: Green Frankfurt. A guide to more than 70 parks and facilities in the city . B3 Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-938783-19-1
  • Horst Wolters - Rödelheim and Hausen , discovery tour through two Frankfurt districts, Howolt-Verlag, Frankfurt

Web links

Commons : Brentanopark (Rödelheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frankfurt reading: The Brentanopark in Frankfurt-Rödelheim | Frankfurt reading . In: Frankfurt Reading . ( frankfurt-lese.de [accessed on November 14, 2018]).
  2. ^ Horst Wolters: Rödelheim and Hausen . Howolt Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2014.
  3. ↑ Martin Heinz Berger, Petra Meyer, Tomas Meyer: development of gardens and green spaces in Frankfurt . Small writings of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main, vol. 38. AIG Verlag, Frankfurt 1988, p. 102
  4. ^ Pavilion by Eugen Kaufmann (1931) in Brentanopark at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  5. ↑ Ginkgo in Rödelheim at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
  6. ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017
  7. ↑ Frankfurt Tree Register - GeoInfo. Retrieved November 21, 2018 .
  8. ^ City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (ed.): The green belt leisure map . 7th edition, 2011
  9. ^ Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV): General route plan for Frankfurt am Main, 2012 edition

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 26 ″  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 58 ″  E