Doktorwerder
| Doktorwerder | ||
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| Waters | Werra | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 25 '11.6 " N , 9 ° 39' 2.9" E | |
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| length | 250 m | |
| width | 70 m | |
| surface | 1.75 ha | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
| main place | (Borkenhaus) | |
The Doktorwerder is a river island of the Werra on the edge of the city center of Hann. Münden in southern Lower Saxony . It is located immediately before the confluence of the Werra and Fulda rivers to the Weser . Werder , designed as a park, is accessible via the Alte Werra Bridge .
description
The Doktorwerder is an elongated island about 250 meters long and about 70 meters wide. It lies in the floodplain of the confluence of the Fulda and Werra rivers. Originally, this was a swampy landscape in which elevated areas such as the Doktorwerder, the Blümer Werder , the Tanzwerder and the Eselwerder have formed due to river flooding . On the old town side there is a small lock of the waterways and shipping office Hann on the Werder . Münden for shipping. Today the island is a freely accessible park with lawns and trees. Inside is the listed bark house , the facade of which is clad with bark and which was originally used as a chapel. There is also a 19th century bathhouse on the island . There is a sculpture park on the island with works by the Mündener sculptor Heinz Detlef Wüpper . At the tip of the island there is a monument to the foundation of the Central German Singers' Association in 1839. One of the five pillars of the Alte Werra Bridge (the second from the south) rests on the eastern end of the island. At the entrance to the Doktorwerder on the Werra Bridge, a larger than life figure of the craft surgeon Doctor Eisenbarth has been erected since 2013 . This is where the “Water” theme trail, which was laid out for EXPO 2000 , begins . In addition, there are works of the art project "3 Rooms - 3 Rivers", which took place from 1998 to 2000 and which was also in connection with the EXPO 2000, on the river island.
Sculpture "o. Title “by ManfreDu Schu for EXPO 2000
"Girl with a Stole" by Heinz Detlef Wüpper
Monument to the Central German Singers Association 1839–1989
Sculpture “Pof No. 83 “by Fabrice Hybert at EXPO 2000
Surname
The city of Münden left the Werder lease or sale to individual citizens, whose names it then bore. Werder was first mentioned in a document in 1397 when a Johann von Scheden acquired it and it was referred to as Schedisches Werder and Scheden Werder . For the period from 1409 to 1876, 10 different names are known for the river island. After the Mündener merchant and coffee wholesaler Friedrich-Karl-Wilhelm Freytag acquired Werder in 1798, the river island was named Freitagsche .
The current name of the doctoral student is not based, as one might assume, on the doctor Eisenbarth , who died in Münden in 1727 , but on the doctor Dr. Laughing mouth. He acquired Werder in 1841. Later, the sugar manufacturer Eduard Wüstefeld (1813–1888) came into the possession of Werder, who was then called Wüstenfeldscher Werder .
history
In 1776, Hessian soldiers were loaded onto the Doktorwerder and hired out in the soldiers' trade under Landgrave Friedrich II of Hessen-Kassel to take part in the American War of Independence . Among them was the writer Johann Gottfried Seume in 1781 .
In 1798 the Mündener merchant and coffee wholesaler Friedrich-Karl-Wilhelm Freytag acquired his doctorate. He made it accessible by filling it over the old Werra bridge and had the island converted into a park. In it he built a rococo style palace , for which the Schönburg palace served as a model. In 1808 Freytag had the Borkenhaus built as a Catholic private chapel for his wife. In 1812 King Jérôme Bonaparte visited the river island during a visit to Münden.
In 1829 the innkeeper Christian Erich Meyer took over Werder and set up an inn with a coffee garden, which made it open to the public. At that time the river island was called Meyerscher Werder. After the poet Franz von Dingelstedt visited Werder in 1837, he described it in detail in his hiking book published in 1839.
From 1841 the Werder belongs to the doctor Dr. Lachmund, who wanted to use it for medicinal purposes. He had shares issued and built various buildings for a cold water sanatorium on the Werder with the capital he gained. This includes the bathhouse that still exists today. Since the citizens of Münden did not subscribe enough shares, the project was ended in 1843.
In the 1840s and 1850s, Münden became a rallying point for emigrants who went mainly to the USA. They were embarked on the Doktorwerder on paddle steamers and drove to Bremen in two days. By 1856 this was around 57,000 people.
Around 1876 the tax authorities took over Werder from private ownership and had a lock built on it to stimulate shipping on the Werra. As a result, the Werder castle was sold and taken away in 1881. The island was no longer open to the public, as it was the premises of the lock. This only changed in the 20th century, when the Doktorwerder was initially only open to tourism in summer.
The Borkenhaus, built in 1808, was used by its subsequent owners for other purposes, for example as a garden café. Today it is used by the waterways and shipping authority in Hann. Münden temporarily as a lounge.
Presentation of the doctoral degree by Merian around 1654 (excerpt)
Unrealistic depiction of Doctor Werder (center) at the Alte Werra Bridge on a copper engraving by Frans Hogenberg , 1584 (detail)
The bath house of the planned cold water sanatorium, built around 1842
The bark house from 1808
The bath house on the left, the Borkenhaus on the right , around 1850
literature
- Karl Brethauer : Emigrants down the Weser . In: Münden. Collected essays . First episode. Publisher Hans Fiedler, Hann. Münden 1984, p. 75
- Karl Brethauer: History of the doctoral candidate . In: Münden. Collected essays . Fourth episode. Publisher Hans Fiedler, Hann. Münden 1989, pp. 56-61
- Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, Göttingen district , part 1, volume 5.2, edited by Urs Boeck , Peter F. Lufen and Walter Wulf. CW Niemeyer Buchverlage, Hameln 1993, ISBN 3-87585-251-6 , p. 128
Web links
- Doktorwerder (short description), on hann.muenden-tourismus.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eisenbart figure is on the Doktorwerder in Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from December 6, 2013.
- ↑ 3 rooms - 3 rivers "You were inscribed in the water" An exhibition project by the city of Hann. Münden with the curator Jan Hoet from 1998 to 2000.
- ↑ Historical overview of the city of Hann. Münden
- ↑ Helmut Saehrendt: Information about 50 interesting locations for excursions in the vicinity of Hann. Münden.
- ↑ Chapel as a break room in Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from December 18, 2012