Gülzow Park

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Entrance to the Gülzow Park
World War Memorial

The Gülzow Park , also Gülzowpark , is a park in the town of Loitz in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . The approximately 4 hectare park is located in the northeastern suburb, north of the road to Grimmen , the former federal highway 194 .

On the initiative of Loitz teacher Christian Karl Friedrich Gülzow († April 16, 1856 in Stoltenhagen, † January 3, 1934 in Loitz), the Loitz Beautification Association, founded in 1888, began planting trees in a former sand pit in the early 1890s. Festivals, theater performances, lectures and concerts were organized to finance the project. The park was named after him in honor of Gülzow in 1927.

In the first half of the 20th century, several monuments were erected in the park. A memorial begun in 1915 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the membership of the former Swedish Pomerania to Prussia could only be unveiled in 1921 because of the First World War . In 1925, a memorial to those killed in the First World War was erected in the center of the park. With the addition of the inscription after the end of World War II , it was dedicated to the memory of all World War II victims. On both sides of the main path from Goethestrasse to the memorial, stele-like, roughly worked boulders originally carried plaques with the names of famous battles that were removed in the 1950s.

In 1940, a memorial to those who died in the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871, which had previously stood on the Loitzer Postberg since 1891, was moved to Gülzow Park.

After the Second World War, a memorial to the fallen Soviet soldiers of the Red Army was erected in the park .

In 1968/1969 citizens of Loitz voluntarily built an open-air stage in the park with the support of local businesses. It was replaced by a new building when the park was renovated in 2006.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Information board in Gülzow Park
  2. ↑ a b Thoralf Plath : No more space for war heroes. In: Nordkurier . January 26, 2007 ( digitized at links-lang.de ).

Web links

Commons : Gülzow-Park  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 58 '36.5 "  N , 13 ° 8' 17.4"  E