Ernst Ehrlicher Park

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Ernst Ehrlicher Park

The Ernst-Ehrlicher-Park (short: Ehrlicherpark ) is a park in Hildesheim . It is named after Ernst Ehrlicher (1872–1951), the mayor of Hildesheim for many years .

location and size

The park with a size of 4.8 hectares lies outside the former city fortifications south of the St. Godehard basilica and connects directly to the ramparts, which it connects to the recreation area around the Johanniswiese open-air pool and the Hohnsensee, further south on the other side of the Innerste connects. In the east, the Weinbergsviertel adjoins with its loosened-up development, in which a new district is being built in the immediate vicinity of the park since 2012 on the former site of the municipal hospital.

The northern border of the Ernst Ehrlicher Park is formed by the Dyesgraben, part of Hildesheim's medieval fortifications . In the west and south it is bordered by the Mühlengraben, a tributary of the Innerste , and in the east by the steep slope of the Innerste valley on the Weinberg road.

history

The history of the park begins as the monastery garden of the Godehardikloster, which was first mentioned in a document on March 11, 1146. The monks created three ponds here for fish farming and even cultivated wine on the slope of today's Weinberg road . When building the city fortifications, the northern pond was expanded jointly from the old and new towns of Hildesheim to the moat in front of the new wall.

After the secularization of the area went to the city and was about 1803 the Hildesheim merchant and banker Gerhard Gottfried Dyes in leasehold left to his widow bought the property 1,843th Around the middle of the 19th century, probably before the land was purchased, the Dyes family had the former gardener's house built on one of the ponds, a two-story half-timbered house that was temporarily used by a restaurant at the end of the 20th century. In 1881 a villa was built above the park on the Weinberg street by the architect and town builder Gustav Schwartz . Around 1885 the garden of Villa Dyes was redesigned in the style of an English landscape garden. The Bürgerpark in Bremen may have served as a model here, as the owner of the villa, the Austrian Consul General Gottfried Ludwig Dyes (a grandson of Gerhard Gottfried Dyes), had previously lived in Bremen for a long time .

In 1917 the garden of Villa Dyes was taken over by the city of Hildesheim as a city park, but it was not until June 29, 1929 that it was open to the public as "Dyes Park". The park was given its current name in 1938, when the mayor of Hildesheim at the time, Ernst Ehrlicher, retired. The Second World War, withstood the Ernst Honest Park without major damage.

Today the original concept of an English landscape garden can still be seen in Ernst-Ehrlicher-Park. It is characterized by large lawns, old trees, small bridges and the connected ponds and is a popular destination for many walkers.

In 2008, as in other urban green spaces, there was extensive tree felling in Ehrlicherpark, which triggered outrage among the population and exposed the city administration to the suspicion of wanting to earn money with the wood.

Flora and fauna

The rare protected bald-backed wood ant is found in the park . Some of their strikingly large nests can be seen near the Dyesgraben in areas that are favored by heat and light. A rare parasitic plant is also represented in the Ernst-Ehrlicher-Park, the pink-blooming psyllid ( Lathraea squamaria ), which blooms in March and April . At the ponds in the park you can sometimes see the colorful but rare kingfisher ( Alcedo atthis ), and a tawny owl also shows up regularly. In the park and the adjoining ramparts several bat species are endemic, such as the noctule , the Daubenton's bat and the Natterer's and pipistrelle . To protect bats and tree-breeding birds, 30 “ habitat trees ” were designated in the park's development concept in 2016 , which should be preserved as much as possible despite their poor conservation status.

Art in the park

In 2005, the Hildesheim Architects and Engineers Association and the Hildesheim Art Association organized a competition aimed at finding artistic ways to further develop the Ehrlicher Park. The first prize went to the Hanoverian artist Frank Schulze and his concept of an “Ernst Ehrlicher Institute” as the world's first institute for “experimental park use research”. The "institute" started its work in 2006 and carried out nine artistic experiments and interventions in the park until January 2007, which were transmitted by a webcam and documented on a website.

The rose labyrinth with a diameter of 23 m and a total path length of 600 m was created in 2006 by the women's labyrinth project as a “meeting place for everyone” .

gallery

  • English landscape garden

  • Rose maze

  • View of the gardener's house

  • View of the lake

literature

  • The Ernst Ehrlicher Park. In: Reinhard Mendzigall: The development of the Hildesheim fortifications as the basis of recommendations for monument preservation. Diploma thesis at the Institute for Green Planning and Garden Architecture at the University of Hanover , 1997, p. 108 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The ponds in Ehrlicher-Park remain dirty for the time being. Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung, May 6, 2015.
  2. ↑ The English park remains a German patient for the time being. Huckup from April 2, 2008, text available online at HildesheimerNatur.de ( Memento from January 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Brochure Nature and City History. (PDF) BUND District Association Hildesheim, accessed on September 25, 2016.
  4. ↑ City of Hildesheim informs tree protection initiative about the development concept Ernst-Ehrlicher-Park. Stadtreporter.de, February 26, 2016, accessed September 25, 2016.
  5. ^ Chronicle: Ernst Ehrlicher Institute for Experimental Park Use Research (EEI). Hildesheim Architects and Engineers Association V., accessed on September 25, 2016.
  6. ^ Website of the "Ernst Ehrlicher Institute (EEI) for experimental park use research". ( Memento of October 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ The rose labyrinth in Ernst Ehrlicher Park. Women's labyrinth project, Region Hildesheim e. V., accessed on September 25, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Ernst-Ehrlicher-Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 35 ″  N , 9 ° 56 ′ 59 ″  E