Fredenbaumpark

Historical view of the Saalbau Fredenbaum in 1913

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Fredenbaumpark, access from Beethovenstraße

Big teepee

Wooden bridge on the pond

Old pig breed at the forest playground

Medieval Christmas market in the park

The 63 hectare Fredenbaumpark is one of the largest parks in the city as the “green lung” of Dortmund's northern part of the city.

Description of the park

The Fredenbaumpark is characterized by varied vegetation. The large rhododendrons that bloom under the canopy of the deciduous trees in May are particularly striking.

The Fredenbaum subway station is on Münsterstrasse on the eastern border of the park . The Natural History Museum was built next to it.

In the western part of the park borders on the Dortmund-Ems Canal . Here it is only separated from the rowing houses of the Dortmund rowing clubs and the Dortmund Rowing Center of the German Rowing Association, which is located directly on the water, by a railway line from the Dortmund port railway . An opening and expansion of the park towards the water is currently being considered.

Offers in the park

The Fredenbaumpark is home to a large construction and adventure playground, which the city upgraded by purchasing and building the “ Big Tipi ” from the Expo 2000 in Hanover. According to the city of Dortmund, the tipi is 35 meters high and around 25 meters wide, making it the largest tipi in the world. The construction is supported by twelve 35 meter high Douglas fir trunks from the Black Forest with a base diameter of one meter. The huge tent houses a climbing world and is used for events. In order to enable the children to come to terms with nature, various pets are kept and looked after. A forest with play equipment and a pond is available. "Booths" can be built from different materials. The playground is under pedagogical supervision and offers various activities for children and young people all year round.

The Fredenbaumpark is the venue for the Dortmund Half Marathon and the running route of the Dortmund Westphalia Triathlon . For recreational activities, the Fredenbaumpark offers:

• Walking paths, benches and lawns
• Adventure world Fredenbaum Big Tipi
• rose Garden
• Bandstand
• Adventure and construction playground
• Children's playgrounds
• Boat rental
• Model boat pond
• Jogging track
• Inline skating (3 km long circuit)
• Mini golf (18 holes)
• Boules
• beach volleyball
• Ping pong tables
• BBQ areas
• Youth traffic garden
• Mende sports complex
• American Football ( Dortmund Giants )
• Rugby (RFC Dortmund)
• Schmiedingslust restaurant.

The park is also a regular location for parties and events. For example, the Medieval Fantasy Spectaculum has been a guest here every spring since the 1990s ; in Advent and at the turn of the year in a seasonally adapted form. 2013 took place e.g. B. the Workers Youth Festival takes place.

history

The park emerged from the Westerholz municipal forest around 1880. The redesign of the city forest into a park began at the end of the 19th century and was implemented until 1906 according to plans by the Berlin zoo director Hermann Geitner . In 1881 a horse-drawn tram connection to the train station in the city center was established. The route is now used by the U41 light rail line. As early as 1888–90, instead of the Fredenbaum restaurant, a 2,200 m² hall building was built for rifle festivals, folk festivals and trade fairs. The celebrations for the Emperor's birthday took place here on January 27, and were considered the social highlight of the year.

From May 13th to 16th, 1891, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show was a guest at Fredenbaumpark during their first tour through the German Empire. The first performance of the Völkerschau was attended by around 5,000 spectators.

North of the Fredenbaum, in the immediate vicinity of today's Deutsche Gasrußwerke, the first Dortmund airfield was opened in 1911. This airfield was the site of the first Dortmund Flight Days in 1911. The Fredenbaumwirt Jos. Windheuser, an aviation enthusiast, chartered the Parseval airship PL 12 - CHARLOTTE for August 3, 1913. Due to the weather, none of the planned passenger trips took place, but Windheuser had advertising cards for the amusement park distributed from board the airship via Dortmund. The airfield at Fredenbaum lasted until the First World War.

In the eastern part of the park the Lunapark was opened on Easter Sunday 1912 , an amusement park in the style of the Berlin Lunapark or the Vienna Prater , in which over 60,000 marks were invested. The attractions offered included a mountain railway, a water slide and a hippodrome.

literature

• Fredenbaum. Park history of the north of Dortmund. (Home Dortmund. City history in pictures and reports. Journal of the Historical Association for Dortmund and the Grafschaft Mark eV in connection with the Dortmund City Archive , issue 2/2015, ISSN  0932-9757 )
• Gustav Luntowski: The easy and the serious muse: Leisure time and urban culture. in: Gustav Luntowski: History of the City of Dortmund. ed. from Dortmund City Archives, Dortmund 1994, ISBN 3-611-00397-2 .

Web links

Commons : Parks in Dortmund  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Fredenbaumpark  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~6~10641

Individual evidence

1. ^ Page of the Dortmund Youth Welfare Office ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2007 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. 
2. ^ RFC Dortmund
3. ^ Gustav Luntowski: The easy and the serious muse: leisure time pleasure and urban culture. in: Gustav Luntowski: History of the City of Dortmund. ed. from Dortmund City Archives, Dortmund 1994, ISBN 3-611-00397-2 , p. 327.
4. ↑ Karl Markus Kreis (ed.): The wild Indians in their colorful tinsel. On the emergence of a stereotype using the example of “Buffalo Bill's Wild West” in Dortmund 1891. Contemporary materials . 1993 ( fh-dortmund.de [PDF; 1.6 MB ; accessed on March 2, 2013]).
5. ^ Gustav Luntowski: The easy and the serious muse: leisure time pleasure and urban culture. in: Gustav Luntowski: History of the City of Dortmund. ed. from Dortmund City Archives, Dortmund 1994, ISBN 3-611-00397-2 , p. 328.

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 49 ″  E