Garden de l'Aigle

Central meadow in late May

Blossoms of the big cherry tree

The garden de l'Aigle is a natural monument priced Park in Hamburg . The character of the park is determined by the still recognizable remains of a vegetable and orchard from the early 20th century.

location

The small park is located on the northern edge of the Hamburg district of Eppendorf on the site of the senior citizens' home and care facility, Anscharhöhe . It has an approximately square shape with sides of about 38 m and 48 m, which means that it would have an area of ​​about 1800 m².

history

→ Main article : The garden of Alma de l'Aigle

In 1888, Alexander de l'Aigle bought a plot of land of around 8000 m² in Hamburg-Eppendorf , on which he built a house and a three-part garden. The garden consisted of an ornamental garden with numerous rose bushes in the area of ​​the house, a vegetable garden and a meadow with fruit trees . When selecting the fruit trees, De l'Aigle made sure that old types of fruit were cultivated and presented in an appealing way. After his death, his daughter Alma de l'Aigle took over the garden and continued to cultivate it, with a particular interest in roses. With the usable part of the garden, ideas for the reform of horticulture that were worked out by Leberecht Migge in the 1920s were anticipated .

After the death of the last of the three de l'Aigle sisters, the garden went wild and the house was demolished. Nevertheless, essential parts of the garden remained unchanged until 1948. Above all, the fruit trees, which are valuable in terms of plant history, mostly originated from the time the garden was established. More than a third of the fruit varieties available at that time were varieties that were no longer grown in the rest of Europe. When the garden came back into public interest in the early 1990s, many of the trees and rose bushes were outdated. Some of them were rejuvenated on the site itself, and some were given to tree nurseries for propagation.

The legal successors of the De l'Aigle family sold the entire property to a housing company that wanted to build residential buildings on it. After intensive negotiations between the new owners and the Hamburg authorities, only the front part of the property was built on and the rear part was redesigned as a park. This park, which is now freely accessible, makes up about a quarter of the original garden. It has been owned by the Anscharhöhe Foundation since the early 1990s and is looked after by the Hamburg Monument Preservation Foundation. The older fruit trees should have been preserved, but not all of them succeeded.

Furnishing

The park is fenced in except for the entrance areas, it offers a few benches and information boards about the history of the garden and its use after 1990. An adjacent playground is no longer part of the park, but is already part of the residential complex.

Photographs and map

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 58 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 48 ″  E

Garden de l'Aigle​

Hamburg

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  West entrance

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  Central meadow with early bloomers

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  Rose beds

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  Old fruit trees in front of the front part of the building

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  Newly planted fruit tree

literature

• Axel Iwohn, Martina Nath-Esser, Claudia Wollkopf: Hamburg Grün - The gardens and parks of the city . L&H Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-928119-39-7 , p. 134-136 .
• Martina Nath-Esser, Irina von Jagow: The Alma de l'Aigle garden - testimony of a committed woman in reform education and gardening culture (flyer) . Monument Preservation Foundation, Hamburg ( denkmalstiftung.de [PDF; accessed on April 15, 2015]).
• Announcement from the Anscharhöhe Foundation, summer 2011, p. 5, Anscharhoehe.de (PDF)
• Alma de l 'Aigle: A garden . Hamburg, Claassen & Goverts 1948 [Extended reprint 1996 by Dölling & Galitz].

Web links

Commons : Garten de l'Aigle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Length of the side measured in the satellite image using Google Maps.
2. ↑ Axel Iwohn, Martina Nath-eater, Claudia Wollkopf: Hamburg Green - The gardens and parks of the city . L&H Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-928119-39-7 , p. 135 .
3. ^ Elke von Radziewsky: Pinched and plowed up . In: The time . No. 41 , 1991 ( zeit.de ).
4. ↑ Festschrift for the 125th anniversary of the Anscharhöhe Foundation (PDF) Hamburg 2011, p. 47.
5. ↑ For example, the pear tree mentioned on a blog page in 2013 no longer exists in 2015.