Cișmigiu Park

Bridge in Cișmigiu Park

The Cişmigiu Park (officially: "Grădina Cişmigiu", German: Cişmigiu Garden) is the largest and oldest public park in the center of Bucharest , Romania . The park has an area of 17 ha.

history

Cișmigiu Park was created at the end of the 18th century. The first work began in 1798 in what is now the oldest and most famous park in Bucharest. At that time, work began on building two fountains, the so-called "Cișnele", from whose name the name "Cișmigiu" was derived.

In 1837 the bordering swamps around the park area were drained and the work lasted a decade. The Viennese garden architect Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer , who originally came from Saxony , was entrusted with the creation of an extended park. Between 1849 and 1860 he had more than 30,000 trees and bushes planted, and built musical arbours, artificial islands, decorative bridges and an avenue of promenades based on the Viennese model. The park was opened to visitors on March 22, 1860.

In 1910 the park was given its final appearance by the garden architect Friedrich Rebhuhn, who remained Bucharest City Garden Director for over 30 years (until after the end of the Second World War). He gave the park a more “Romanian” character. He replaced the avenues with the geometric shapes, the trimmed poplars and linden trees with a large flower carpet based on the traditional pattern of the Romanian carpets, created the “Romanian Rondeau” with the marble busts of six Romanian writers, a playground, a small zoo, a boat rental and a restaurant.

Cișmigiu now has a French garden, a writer's roundabout , a Roman roundabout, a rose garden and two lakes, the larger Lake Cișmigiu and the smaller Lake Lebedelor . In winter the lakes are often used for ice skating with music.

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Individual evidence

^ Sebastian Bonifaciu, Emanuel Valeriu: Bucharest from A to Z, p. 173, Pontica Handbooks, Publishing House for Tourism, Bucharest (1974)
↑ AT Razvan: Cișmigiu - or dreaming under trees, p. 30, from Merian, Bucharest and Romania's Black Sea coast, volume 6 / XIX, Hoffmann and Campe (June 1966)

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[1] Sebastian Bonifaciu, Emanuel Valeriu: Bucharest from A to Z, p. 173, Pontica Handbooks, Publishing House for Tourism, Bucharest (1974)

[2] AT Razvan: Cișmigiu - or dreaming under trees, p. 30, from Merian, Bucharest and Romania's Black Sea coast, volume 6 / XIX, Hoffmann and Campe (June 1966)