Fontanapark (Chur)
The Fontanapark (more rarely Fontanaplatz ) is a city park and public garden in the heart of the Grisons capital, Chur . It is located on Grabenstrasse not far from Postplatz at the western entrance to the old town.
The park is named after the Bündner freedom hero Benedikt Fontana , who fell in the battle of Calven in 1499 . A monument by the sculptor Richard Kissling in the park erected in 1903 after a competition represents him. It was inspired by the Winkelried monument in Stans , created by Kissling's former master Ferdinand Schlöth .
Fontanapark was originally part of the old building , which was built as a mansion from 1727 to 1729 and was owned by Envoyé Peter von Salis-Soglio . In 1860 the area in front of the building was redesigned in terms of landscape architecture while largely retaining the original baroque concept. In 1960 the Fontana monument, created in 1903, was integrated into the park.
A sequoia tree is botanically valuable in the park .
Guido Hager is an important landscape architect who has recently been entrusted with the maintenance of the Fontanapark .
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Coordinates: 46 ° 50 '58 " N , 9 ° 31' 50.6" E ; CH1903: 759 546 / one hundred and ninety thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven