Engelhaldepark
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The Engelhaldepark or landscape park Engelhalde is a park in Kempten (Allgäu) . It was created by recultivating a gravel pit.
Location and description
The landscape park is located east of the Iller on Lenzfrieder Straße, has an area of 12 hectares and is traversed by the Bachtelbach. In addition to walking paths and sunbathing lawns, the park has an approximately 6000 m² pond, a wet biotope, two children's playgrounds, a Kneipp facility , an outdoor climbing facility and a kiosk with a bar. The Jakobus pilgrimage route also leads through Engelhaldepark.
history
The Kempten transmitter , which was put into operation in 1951 and dismantled in 1956, was located on the site .
From 1956 to 1979 there was a gravel pit on the site in which gravel was mined and processed. The gravel was delivered later and a concrete mixing plant was also operated. In 1980 garage production was given up. In 1981 the city council decided to recultivate the area . After an ideas and design competition, which included a possible residential development, the creation of allotment gardens or an industrial settlement, the decision was made to create a landscape park according to the plans of the renowned landscape architect Peter Kluska . The intention was to participate in the first Bavarian state horticultural show . However, due to time and cost pressures, this was put on file.
Kluska won the architecture competition with his idea of opening the basin created by gravel mining with a cut into the high bank of the Iller to the city. The gravel pit was deliberately shielded from the city by the high bank, now the park should be visual. At that time, the contour lines of the park were modeled with great effort so that a view of the St. Mang Church was possible from as many paths as possible. Originally a swimming pool was also planned, but it was put on hold for cost reasons. At the deepest point of the park there is a pond to which a stream leads.
In the major phase of redesigning the terrain, there were several embankments and the removal of steep walls up to 22 meters high with craggy slopes. Then around 2,300 trees and around 10,000 shrubs were planted and wildflower meadows were created.
Engelhaldepark was opened on June 24, 1989 under the then mayor Josef Höß .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c City of Kempten (ed.), Joachim Weigel: Engelhalde landscape park. Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, 1989.
- ↑ Engelhalde II
- ↑ Engelhalde
- ↑ Information about Engelhaldepark on the website of the city of Kempten, accessed on April 14, 2012
- ↑ Information on the Jakobus pilgrimage route on the website of the city of Kempten, accessed on April 14, 2012
- ^ A b c Franz-Rasso Böck , Ralf Lienert , Joachim Weigel (eds.): Century views of Kempten 1900–2000 . Verlag Tobias Dannheimer - Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten (Allgäu) 1999, ISBN 3-88881-035-3 , p. 256 .
- ^ Peter Kluska: Landscape Architecture: Projects + Competitions 1970–2010 . Hirmer 2013, ISBN 978-3-7774-5681-2 , pages 42-49
- ↑ Speech by the Lord Mayor Dr. Ulrich Netzer from December 28, 2011. ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 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. on the occasion of the appointment of the former mayor Dr. Josef Höß as honorary citizen, accessed on April 14, 2012
- ↑ Historical timetable of the city of Kempten ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 14, 2012.
literature
- City of Kempten (ed.): Engelhalde landscape park. Allgäuer newspaper publisher
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 17 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 44 ″ E