Peace Grove (Löbau)
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Alley in the park (left: postcard from 1913; right: photo from 2012)
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The Friedenshain , called Langer Rain until 1895 and Siegeshain from 1895 to 1946 , is a park with an ornamental garden in the east of the large district town of Löbau . At the upper edge of the park is a 13 meter high obelisk, which was erected as a victory memorial for the German victory at Sedan .
location
The park forms the border between the city and the Löbauer Berg . The site is bordered in the north by the Löbau-Ost thermal power station and the building yard of the city of Löbau, in the east by Humboldtweg, in the south by Beethovenstrasse and Löbauer Berg and in the west by the Löbau-Ost residential area.
history
After the victory of the German over the French troops in Sedan in 1870 and the subsequent erection of many victory monuments in the German Empire , the city of Löbau decided to erect such a monument on its territory on the 25th anniversary of the victory. The suggestion of Mayor Carl Ernst Otto Mücklich, who wanted to build a victory grove with obelisks on the "Langen Rain" near the Löbauer mountain, prevailed.
To give the memorial a framework, the Görlitz garden inspector Sperling was commissioned by the city to build a park in July 1895. After the inauguration of the monument on September 2, 1895, Sedan Day , Sperling began planting the grove in the spring of 1896. An avenue of trees and conifers was laid out. Ornamental gardens were established in the northern part of the park. Sperling finished the work in June 1896 and handed over the management to the Löbauer city gardener Halfter.
A monument in honor of Kaiser Wilhelm I was erected at the foot of the Victory Grove in 1905 .
The park survived the two world wars almost unscathed. In 1946 it was renamed Friedenshain , the larger than life copper bust of the emperor was removed from his monument. The head bust is lost today.
In the years after the Second World War, the park continued to deteriorate. When the construction of the Löbau-Ost residential area began in the early 1980s , the park was completely overgrown and some of the trees were badly damaged. After Mayor Rainer Simmang and Master Horticulturalist Karin Schönlebe had a viewing appointment in 1984, the city council decided to repair the park. Around 60 officer students from the officers' college of the land forces "Ernst Thälmann" freed the Friedenshain from rubbish and overgrown trees in over 4,000 working hours. The FDJ laid in 1985 at the foot of the former Kaiser Wilhelm memorial to a great festival flower. Also in 1985 new rhododendrons were planted and reforestation began.
Art in the park
In May 1986, 19 folk artists created various sculptures and sculptures as part of the workshop week “Art on the Way”, which were set up in the Friedenshain. Of the 20 figures, seven were still preserved in the park in 2016. There are plans to move some of the surviving figures to the state horticultural show site .
literature
- Arnd Krenz: History of the Friedenshain . 110 years of Friedenshain. In: Stadt Löbau (Ed.): City journal . No. 08/2006 . Löbau August 2006, p. 14 ( loebau.de [PDF; 900 kB ; accessed on January 12, 2017]).
Web links
- Friedenshain on the website of the city of Löbau
- Kaiser Wilhelm Monument on the site of the city of Loebau
- Victory Column on the website of the city of Löbau
- Picture gallery of the sculptures
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marcus Scholz: Löbauer wants to save sculptures. Sächsische Zeitung , July 7, 2016, accessed on January 12, 2017 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 41.8 " N , 14 ° 40 ′ 47.2" E