Leisure center Wittringen

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Wittringen Castle with castle pond
Local museum
Vestic arena
Cenotaph with stele and pond

The leisure center Wittringen , originally popular recreation facility Wittringen called, was in and around the Wittringer forest in Gladbeck built and inaugurated 1928th

The facility, built in the style of an English landscape park , was intended to serve as a local recreation area for the Gladbeck population, which was growing rapidly due to mining. In 1922 the city bought a large part of the Wittringer Forest from the noble previous owner. From 1925, the city had the area around the city forest and the moated castle expanded, the redesign was planned by the civil engineering department manager Josef Korte in line with the Volkspark movement. Ponds, children's playgrounds, football, fistball and hockey fields, the 4.2 km long Ringallee, a public meadow and an air and light pool were built. Landscape elements, straight lines of sight and curved paths structured the area. The sports facilities with a large stadium and outdoor pool were built between the forest and the Graf Moltke colliery.

The area is bounded to the west by the B 224, to the south by the A 2, to the east by the railway line and to the north by the housing estate.

Components of the park

  • About 100 hectares of forest and park area, more than 200 years old beech trees, various native and exotic ornamental trees
  • historic moated castle Wittringen , destroyed and rebuilt several times, today with restoration, the local museum, a bird island with a bird house and small animal enclosure as a petting zoo, a large castle pond with boat rental
  • several ponds (castle pond 37,000 m², Brillenteiche 23,100 m² and cenotaph pond 5,400 m²) connected by various ponds, which serve to drain the area that has sunk from subsidence
  • Wittringer Mühlenbach, tributary of the Emscher, still canalised but already without sewage, an idyllic meadow valley with pollarded willows
  • Vestische arena , a modern, listed sports facility also for international athletics competitions
  • Gladbeck open-air pool, with indoor air deck in winter
  • several children's playgrounds including an adventure playground
  • the Ringallee, in the meantime briefly used as a car racing track, today again a marathon track (10 laps make about a marathon route) which is illuminated with LEDs until 10:00 p.m., the old avenue made of columnar poplars has meanwhile been replaced by around 450 columned hornbeams
  • public tennis courts, two privately run mini golf courses
  • Waldbühne (no longer available)
  • Watermill (no longer available)
  • 1934 inaugurated monument made of natural stone, today memorial ensemble with u. a. a steel stele
  • a farm with agricultural land
  • Parking spaces for around 500 cars, short-term motorhome parking spaces

Web links

Commons : Freizeitstätte Wittringen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 46.4 "  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 36.9"  E