Garden of Heavenly Peace
The Garden of Heavenly Peace is a Chinese garden in Frankfurt am Main . He is part of the Northrend located Bethmann Park , the main entrance is located near the entrance of Bethmannpark at the beginning of Berger Street .
history
In 1983 the plan was to relocate the Chinese garden that had been laid out in Munich's Westpark as part of the International Garden Show . Although this project failed, the Frankfurters' desire for their own Chinese garden was awakened. Therefore, the city began its realization in 1985 in Bethmannpark, where the family of the same name had already planted and bred East Asian plants two hundred years ago. The Shuikou Gardens from Huizhou were the model . The buildings are based on the style of simple houses from Anhui Province .
Building materials were brought in from China by sea in 27 containers; the construction was carried out by 16 specially traveled Chinese skilled workers. After four years of construction and a total investment of 3.2 million DM, the park was opened on October 7, 1989 as a spring flower garden . Just a few weeks later, in memory of the Tian'anmen massacre on June 4, 1989, it was given its current name Garden of Heavenly Peace .
structure
The central element of the 4,000 m² park, which is enclosed by a wall, is the asymmetrical branched jasper green pond . Behind the lion-guarded main gate, the bridge of the half boat leads over it to the rectangular water pavilion . On its other side, the Fragrant Water Gallery stretches along the pond bank and ends at the square mirror pavilion . The visitor reaches the north bank via the zigzag jade belt bridge . To the west, the bridge offers a view of a rock with a waterfall. The southern part of the garden - beyond the water pavilions - is dominated by a hill on which the pavilion rises in shimmering green .
In addition, a large number of plants, bushes, rocks, stones, waterfalls and characters are distributed in the park. Their arrangement was not left to chance, rather it reflects various references - especially to the Chinese symbolic language .
Arson attack on the water pavilion
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An arson attack was carried out on the water pavilion in the night from May 31st to June 1st, 2017. Unknown perpetrators set the water pavilion on fire using an accelerator. The police received an emergency call at 3:40 a.m. and alerted the fire department. The pavilion was destroyed. The reconstruction costs are estimated at € 250 to 300,000. On May 1, 2017, a pavilion in the Korean garden in Grüneburgpark was destroyed by arson. Here, too, the fire brigade was deployed in the second half of the night. The police suspect a connection.
literature
- Werner Breuckmann: Bethmann Park Frankfurt am Main. In: KulturRegion Frankfurt RheinMain gGmbH (Hrsg.): Garden RheinMain. From the monastery garden to the regional park. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt 2006 ISBN 3-7973-0981-3
- City of Frankfurt (ed.): The Chinese Garden in Frankfurt. Official brochure of the city of Frankfurt [* The Chinese Garden in Bethmannpark on frankfurt.de ], accessed on Feb. 25, 2020
- Sonja Thelen: Green Frankfurt. A guide to more than 70 parks and facilities in the city. B3-Verlag, Frankfurt 2007 ISBN 978-3-938783-19-1 pp. 83-85.
Web links
- Chinese garden at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the city of Frankfurt am Main
- Article from the Frankfurter Rundschau from June 1, 2005
- Compilation of information on the website of the Society for German-Chinese Friendship Frankfurt am Main e. V.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 7.6 ″ N , 8 ° 41 ′ 26.5 ″ E