Günthersburgpark

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Günthersburgpark with a view of the city center.
"Sprühfeld" water playground
The Rothschild Günthersburg Palace
West facade of the Rothschild Orangery building with portal

The Günthersburgpark is a green area in Frankfurt am Main , Nordend-Ost district , which was laid out in 1837 by the banker Carl Mayer von Rothschild and has been open to the public since 1892.

layout

The now officially 7.4 hectare site has an old dense tree population and a lot of open meadow area to the north. The park is supplemented by a newly added meadow area north of Weidenbornstrasse by another 4 hectares. There is an adventure playground and water games for children. In the western part of the park there is a larger than life animal figure, a bull made of chased copper sheet . It dates from 1910 and follows a design by the Emmendingen painter Fritz Boehle (1873–1916), who died in Frankfurt .

At the southern entrance is the sculpture The Sower by the Belgian painter and sculptor Constantin Meunier (1831–1905). The bronze sculpture from 1890, bought in 1906 by the city of Frankfurt, has been in Günthersburgpark since 1915. Just like the sculpture Der Hafenarbeiter (erected on the Frankfurt Friedensbrücke ), this statue is also a foundation of the entrepreneur and then head of the Cassella works , Leo Gans .

history

The area of ​​the later park was first mentioned in 1189 under the name Ossenau . It was successively owned by various Frankfurt patrician families , including that of the Glauburg family . In the Middle Ages , the Bornburg is said to have stood here, the seat of the Lords of Bornheim. In 1690 the area was purchased for the sum of 5700 guilders by the Frankfurt innkeeper Johann Jacob Günther, a wealthy businessman who made his fortune as an army supplier during the Thirty Years' War . Towards the end of the 17th century he had the Günthersburg , a small moated castle with a moat and drawbridge , built, from which the current name of the park is derived.

After several changes of ownership, the property came into the possession of the Rothschild family at the beginning of the 19th century . Between 1837 and 1839, Carl Mayer von Rothschild had it redesigned by Frankfurt city gardener Sebastian Rinz into an English landscape garden with large lawns and groups of trees. After 1855 the Günthersburg was demolished and replaced by a summer palace of the Rothschilds, the Villa Günthersburg . The architect of the palace was Friedrich Rumpf , who had previously designed a Rothschild palace in what was later to be known as the Frankfurt Rothschildpark . Of the buildings, only the orangery , built in 1855, remains today . Mayer Carl von Rothschild , the last representative of the banking family who resided in Frankfurt, died in 1886 without leaving any descendants. In his will he bequeathed the site to the city of Frankfurt on the condition that it be made accessible to the public as a park, but that the palace be demolished. After the death of Mayer Carl von Rothschild, the city of Frankfurt acquired the park in 1891, which was redesigned by garden architect Andreas Weber . On June 26, 1892, the Günthersburgpark was opened as a public park.

At the beginning of the 20th century , the park received the two sculptures Bulle (designed by Boehle) and The Sower (Meunier); in 1905 the park area was expanded to the south-west.

The previously preserved Rothschild Orangerie received in World War II in the air raids on Frankfurt serious damage, but was restored after the war and served from 1950 under the name Grace Church as a place of worship . In 1985 the park received a large children's playground with a water play pool. In the 1990s there was an expansion in the north by 38,000 square meters, designed according to plans by Dieter Kienast . In 2010 the historic, listed gate system of the park on Hartmann-Ibach-Straße was restored.

The park once formed the border between Bornheim and the north end of Frankfurt. After border corrections, the park now belongs entirely to the most densely populated district of Nordend-Ost.

literature

  • Frank Blecken: Historical parks in Frankfurt am Main - Günthersburgpark. In: Tom Koenigs (Ed.): City parks - Urban nature in Frankfurt am Main, p. 88 f. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1993, ISBN 3-593-34901-9
  • Hans Pehl: When they once protected the city - Frankfurt's fortified manors . Verlag Josef Knecht, Frankfurt 1978. ISBN 3-7820-0411-6

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website Art in Public Space Frankfurt of the Cultural Office of the City of Frankfurt, Department of Fine Arts (accessed on September 3, 2010)
  2. ↑ a b c d Blecken: Historical parks in Frankfurt am Main in: Stadt-Parks, p. 89
  3. ↑ a b Pehl - When they once protected the city , p. 84 ff .: The Günthersburg
  4. ↑ Martin Heinz Berger, Petra Meyer, Tomas Meyer: development of gardens and green spaces in Frankfurt . Small writings of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main, vol. 38. AIG Verlag, Frankfurt 1988, p. 100
  5. ↑ Heinz Berger, Meyer, Meyer: development of gardens and green spaces in Frankfurt am Main, S. 101
  6. ^ Stefan Timpe: Preservation of monuments in Frankfurt am Main. Renovation and restoration projects 2010–2011 , Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-943407-54-9 . P. 22 f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 49 ″  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 12 ″  E