Thunder Park

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Thunder Park
Park in Hamburg
Thunder Park
Donner's Park on the Geesthang above the Elbe
Basic data
place Hamburg
District Ottensen
Created Late 18th century
Newly designed 1911
Surrounding streets Elbchaussee , Neumühlen
use
Park design Ferdinand Tutenberg
Technical specifications
Parking area 4.03 ha

Donners Park (or Donnerspark ) is a facility in the Hamburg district of Ottensen and is located directly on the Geest slope between Elbchaussee and Elbe .

location

The park is located in the Hamburg district of Altona south of the Elbchaussee. It got its name from the last owners, the Altona banking and merchant family Donner . Originally the garden was oriented towards the now defunct Donner Castle . The park is still a popular recreational area with a lawn and a toboggan hill. It is also a direct route between Ottensen and Övelgönne . Many structures, trees and paths from bygone times can still be easily recognized and walked on today. Donners Park is part of a series of Elbe parks on the Hohe Elbufer. To the east it borders on Heine Park , which can be reached via a pedestrian bridge. To the west, the park merges into the so-called rose garden , another adjacent Elbe park .

history

Originally the site belonged to an old water mill that used the slope water near the Elbe and was a bone of contention between Hamburg and Denmark . After it burned down, it was rebuilt. The name Neumühlen was developed from this mill . In 1676 the area was bought by the merchant Jenckel, who converted the area into a country residence with a "pleasure garden". Jenckel's heirs, they called themselves "Jenquel", sold the property in 1778 for 8,600 M to John Blacker, who was the court master of the Hamburg company . Blacker changed the property and sold it on for 23,500m in 1793 , having previously bought an adjacent property.

Donners Park in Hamburg-Altona with a view of the port of Hamburg

In 1793, the three friends Georg Heinrich Sieveking , Conrad J. Matthiessen (1751-1822) and the publisher Piter Poel took over the garden together. They built a house, lived there on the weekends and managed the site together. After Matthiesen left the garden, it was used for informal gatherings of enlightened people. The garden was redesigned by the garden architect Joseph Ramée on behalf of Sieveking . With this first successful order in northern Germany, Ramée made a name for himself; in the following years he was involved in many parks.

After Sieveking died, his wife Johanna Margaretha Sieveking continued the property and the socializing. When the Sievekingsche trading house had to file for bankruptcy as a result of the continental blockade imposed by Napoleon in 1811, Johanna had the Neumühlen country estate auctioned. The buyer was the businessman and Danish budget adviser Johann Peter Stoppel from Altona. The merchant and banker Conrad Hinrich Donner bought it from him in 1820 . He had a building built on the site in 1834, which was connected to a greenhouse and served as a museum for his collection (marble sculptures) and is considered the first work by the architect Gottfried Semper . His son Bernhard Donner (1809–1865) had the Sieveking house demolished and built a country house elsewhere. The country house, which he describes as a castle, was built by the architect Johann Heinrich Strack between 1853 and 1855 in the Gothic style and taste of the late romanticism . As in the Sieveking house , well-known personalities, kings and emperors frequented the castle, with its unobstructed view over the Elbe and adorned with fresco paintings by Wilhelm von Kaulbach .

Map from 1889

After Bernhard's death (1809–1865), his wife Helene Donner (1819–1909) lived in the area and the park was expanded. Helene Donner was considered to be very charitable, among other things, the Helenenstift was founded by her. After her death on December 7, 1911, the city of Altona acquired the site and opened it to the public as Donners Park. The monumental wall paintings by Wilhelm von Kaulbach and his son-in-law August von Kreling came to Bredeneek Castle, which also belongs to the Donner family . The " Donner Castle ", which was destroyed by air raids in World War II , was used for the municipal arts and crafts school and a technical seminar. The Semper building with its octagon-shaped dome structure, which had been converted into a café in 1914 for a horticultural exhibition, was damaged by bombs in 1942 and finally demolished after later deterioration.

Horticultural Exhibition 1914

On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Altona and the 50th anniversary of its membership in Prussia, a large horticultural exhibition was planned. Ferdinand Tutenberg was appointed to Altona by Mayor Bernhard Schnackenburg in 1913 to plan this exhibition . The exhibition mainly took place in the redesigned Donners Park, in the rose garden and on the area north of the Elbchaussee. Also included was the Schleswig-Holstein art exhibition by the Altonaer Künstlerverein , which had a building erected especially for the duration of the exhibition. Since the First World War broke out during the horticultural exhibition , it was a financial failure, even though the exhibition continued to open until the end of the season. After the exhibition, the areas on Elbchaussee were parceled out and sold by the city.

Others

In 1927, the Lord Mayor of Altona, Max Brauer , brought a Heinrich Heine sculpture by the artist Ludvig Hasselriis (1844–1912) to Elbchaussee after an odyssey and granted her “asylum” in Donner's Park. It is now in Toulon in the south of France .

literature

  • Christina Becker: Altona from A – Z. The district lexicon. Medien-Verlag Schubert, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-929229-69-2 .
  • Axel Iwohn, Martina Nath-Esser, Claudia Wollkopf: Hamburg Green. The city's gardens and parks. L & H-Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-928119-39-7 .
  • Paul Th. Hoffmann: The Elbchaussee. Their country estates, people and fates. 8th edition. Broschek, Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-7672-0496-7 .
  • Guide through the exhibition of works of art from Altonaic private property and the Altonaer Künstler-Verein im Donnerschen Schloß, Altona , 1912, pp. 4–11 (2 pages), with pictures (pp. 5, 7, 9) that will follow later in the book ( Digitized version )
  • Wilhelm Volckens, Peter Hoppe: Donnerpark . In: Neumühlen and Oevelgönne . Historical sketches by Wilhelm Volckens and messages from the archive of the Oevelgönner and Neumühlener Lootsen Brotherhood by Peter Hoppe. Schlütersche Buchhandlung, Altona 1895, p. 62–64 ( uni-hamburg.de ).
  • Neumühlen and Otmarschen in: Johann Martin Lappenberg : The Elbkarte des Melchior Lorichs from 1568 , Joh. Aug. Meissner, Hamburg 1847, p. 77ff. Digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DgCUTAAAAQAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA77~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As early as the 17th century, wealthy merchants from Hamburg were running country houses and “pleasure gardens” in Neumühlen, Ottensen and Othmarschen. In particular, these were immigrant Dutch and Portuguese Jews who were used to living in country houses with well-tended gardens in their homeland in the summer months: Wilhelm Volckens: The country houses on Flottbeker Chaussee in the Othmarschen and Övelgönner area in the 19th century . In: Messages from the Association for Hamburg History . tape 39 , no. 1919 . W. Mauke Sons, 1920, p. [7] 200-201 ( online ).
  2. ↑ The correct spelling: Jencquel ; see: Ulrike von Goetz, Arne Cornelius Wasmuth: It all started with beer. Hamburg's big families. In: WELT am SONNTAG. Axel Springer SE, October 28, 2001, accessed on June 5, 2018 .
  3. ↑ The property - “Jenquelsche Lustgarten” - was (“cum pertinentiis” = with accessories) advertised in the “Reichs = Postreuter” № 97 of “20. Junius 1775 ”was offered for public sale on July 10, 1775 in the Altona town hall. The advertisement contains a brief description of the property, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DkE9lAAAAcAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPT164~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D .
  4. ↑ Paul Th. Hoffmann: The Elbchaussee. 8th edition. 1977, p. 307, footnote 28.
  5. ↑ For example, the Heine Park and Baurs Park were designed by him.
  6. ↑ a b Renata Klee Gobert: Private Museum Donner . In: Altona. Elbe suburbs (=  The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . Volume 2 ). 2nd Edition. Christians, Hamburg 1970, p. 170-171 .
  7. ↑ Bredeneek Castle: Tour , accessed on December 26, 2016
  8. ↑ "Heine belongs in Hamburg". . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , March 15, 2004.

Web links

Commons : Donners Park  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '42 "  N , 9 ° 55' 23"  E