Diederichsenpark

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Diederichsenpark
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Park in Kiel
Diederichsenpark
Diederichsenpark in autumn 1964
Basic data
place Kiel
District Gloombrook
Created 1957
Surrounding streets Parkstrasse, Niemannsweg, Kiellinie , Bismarckallee, Hirschfeldblick
use
User groups Pedestrian traffic , bicycle traffic
Park design Memorial stone for Heinrich Diederichsen, memorial stone for Thea Diederichsen
Technical specifications
Parking area 4500 m²

The Diederichsenpark is located in Kiel - Düsternbrook in Schleswig-Holstein . It can be reached in local public transport via the Diederichsenpark bus stop and is on the list of landscape protection areas in the city of Kiel .

history

Villa Forsteck 1895

The 4.5 hectare park area today belonged to a fruit tree nursery established in 1784. Fruit trees grown here were partly given away free of charge to improve the food supply to the population. Today, among other things, walnut trees grow here .

1866–1868, Heinrich Adolph Meyer and his wife Marie, nee Toberentz, built the Villa Forsteck on the site of today's Diederichsenpark. The foundation walls can still be seen today. The builders represented the ideas of the 1848 democracy movement. They campaigned for women's education and were interested in science. The Villa Forsteck became a spiritual and cultural center of Kiel. The guests here were the pianist Clara Schumann , the composer Johannes Brahms , the writers Theodor Fontane , Klaus Groth and Carl Schurz , interior minister of the USA and husband of the youngest sister of the hostess.

Adolph Meyer died in 1889. Heinrich Diederichsen (1865–1942) bought the house and the green area in 1893 and converted it in 1905. From 1889 to 1905 there was hardly any social life at Villa Forsteck. After his death in 1942 the villa was used as a guest house by the Navy. The villa was destroyed by bombs on August 25, 1944 and torn down except for the remains of the wall.

The Diederichsenpark was created on the site in 1957. Heinrich Diederichsen is honored on a memorial plaque in the park with the words:

The preserver of the Howaldtswerke in serious time of need, the conveyor of the Kiel economics and science, an honorary doctorate from the University of Kiel , from his native city of Kiel to the honorable memory of Anno 1958

gallery

  • Heinrich Diederichsen memorial plaque

  • Thea Diederichsen memorial plaque

  • Stone at a park entrance

  • Memorial stone house Forsteck

Web links

Commons : Diederichsenpark  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Heinrich and Thea Diederichsen and the Diederichsenpark, Volume 82, Issue 3 of communications from the Society for Kiel City History, 2005, 34 pages
  • Gerd Stolz, "Heinrich Adolph Meyer and his 'Haus Forsteck' in Kiel", Husum Printing and Publishing Company, 2004, ISBN 3-89876-175-4 .

swell

  1. ↑ a b fontane-gesellschaft.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Theodor Fontane on the Kiel Fjord  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fontane-gesellschaft.de
  2. ↑ a b Information board in Diederichsenpark on the remains of the wall of Villa Forsteck
  3. ^ Geocaching.com: Literature in Kiel: Fontane and Haus Forsteck

Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 54.9 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 47.7 ″  E