Fritz von Harck plant

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Fritz-von-Harck-Anlage with New Town Hall (2016)

The Fritz-von-Harck-Anlage is a green area in Leipzig, southwest of the city center. After the historic complex fell into disrepair, it was redesigned in 2000.

location and size

The Fritz von Harck facility is located between the New Town Hall and the Federal Administrative Court . It is bounded in the east by the Pleißemühlgraben , in the north by Karl-Tauchnitz-Strasse and in the south by Simsonplatz. In the west it borders on villa gardens. It represents the north-eastern corner of the music quarter in the center-south district . Its area is 0.45 hectares . More than half of it is lawn. Its width decreases by about 13 meters to the south.

history

  • The plant from the east (1911)

  • Edged fountain (1910)

  • Jewelry Square with Villas (1910)

In 1890 the Nonnenmühle was demolished in order to create a connection between Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße and the city center by means of a bridge over the Pleißemühlgraben. Between 1894 and 1900, a decorative area with a fountain and horticultural design was laid out on the rest of the vacant area and that of the former Benedictine convent of St. Georg .

In 1917 the art historian and collector Fritz von Harck (1855–1917), who had lived in the Villa Harck, Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 6 opposite the jewelry place, died. Because he had bequeathed his extensive collections to the Museum of Fine Arts and the Leipzig Museum of Applied Arts , the previously unnamed place was named Fritz-von-Harck-Anlage in the same year.

From 1967 to 1999 the portrait bust of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847) created by the sculptor Walter Arnold (1909–1979) stood in the Fritz von Harck facility. This is now located not far from the facility on the Mendelssohn-Ufer . In connection with the clearing of the Pleißemühlgraben, the facility, which was neglected during the GDR era, was redesigned to its current form in 1999/2000 according to plans by the Leipzig Green Spaces Office and supported by the Allianz Environmental Foundation. Those involved in the reconstruction were honored at the 2001 German Landscape Architecture Prize .

layout

  • Fountain, lawn waves
    and long bench (2015)

  • Southern part with former imperial court (2010)

  • The boundary of the plant
    to the west (2016)

The central element of the facility is the water basin with the fountain at the historical location. A wide path, from which three more lead off to the limits of the facility, surrounds the basin. The middle of them in the direction of Pleißemühlgraben contains a flat fluidized bed, which creates the optical connection between the fountain and Mühlgraben and in which the fountain is reflected. The fountain and fluidized bed can be illuminated by the light floor elements.

A particularly noticeable accent are the lawns modeled in an even wave shape, which can be walked on and used for camping or playing. Behind the water basin, a 25-meter-long semicircular bench with a high back invites you to linger and at the same time forms part of the closure to the west. This consists of three rows of box hedges, between which various plants grow. Rhododendrons lead over to the trees in the villa gardens behind. There are more benches along the paths.

literature

  • Petra Mewes, Peter Benecken: Leipzig's Green - A Park and Garden Guide . Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-938543-49-8 , pp. 78/79 .

Web links

Commons : Fritz-von-Harck-Anlage  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Redesign of the Fritz von Harck facility in Leipzig. In: Allianz Umweltstiftung website. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
  2. ^ Fritz-von-Harck-Anlage, Leipzig. In: Website landscape architecture today. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 4 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 13 ″  E