Gelbkehain

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View into the Gelbkehain

The Gelbkehain (also spelled Gelbke-Hain , inaugurated in 1946 as the Johannes Gelbke singer grove ) is a 1.5  hectare park in the Saxon town of Radeberg . The facility was named after the composer, choirmaster and singer Johannes Gelbke , who was born in the city in 1846 and spent his childhood and early youth here.

location

The Gelbkehain is located on the course of the Große Röder in Radeberg. It is bounded in the north-west by the Hospital Bridge and Dresdner Strasse, and in the east by another Röder Bridge and Dr.-Albert-Dietze-Strasse. To the southwest is the renatured area of ​​the former Maxim Gorki cultural center .

nature

View from the direction of the former cultural center

The Gelbkehain is overgrown with a loose population of deciduous trees. The most common tree species are Norway maple and sycamore maple . Linden , elm and black alder also grow . There are willows on the edges of the Röder . Some rhododendrons have been planted in the eastern part of the park .

In the course of the renaturation, meadows were created on the site of the former cultural center and several trees of the genus Prunus (stone fruit trees ), such as bird cherries , were planted.

history

Until around 1845, the area on the left bank of the Große Röder was mostly used for agriculture, on which until 1813 there was only a hospital near what is now Dresdner Straße, which gave the hospital bridge its name. With the construction of the first section of the Saxon-Silesian Railway from Dresden ( Schlesischer Bahnhof ) to Radeberg in 1845, the water supply for the locomotives had to be secured in Radeberg, for this purpose a pumping station was built on the left bank of the Röder in what is now the Gelbkehain, from which the process water is fed into the The water tower of the Radeberg train station was pumped. This pumping station was demolished in 1908 and its foundation was converted into a podium on which artistic events, predominantly of a musical nature, were carried out until the 1960s.

Around 1883 a promenade was set up in the area of ​​today's Gelbkehain and the area was designed as a park . On July 19, 1946, the 100th birthday of the composer Johannes Gelbke, who was born in Radeberg, the facility was given the name Sängerhain Johannes Gelbke in his honor . A memorial stone was donated and unveiled by the Radeberg Folk Choir, also founded in 1946. The name of the park was officially shortened to Gelbkehain in the following years . Musical events were held in the Gelbkehain until the 1960s.

Until the early 1990s, the complex was largely overgrown and was regularly damaged by vandalism. In 1993, the entire facility in the Gelbkehaines was completely renovated and repaired by employees of "ABS Elektrotechnik Dresden, Regional Management Radeberg". The memorial stone for Johannes Gelbke was also restored and the pavilion renewed. At the ceremonial handover of the renovated facility on September 11, 1993 to the Radeberg city administration, among many other musical works, Gelbke's best-known song "Horch, die alten Eichen rauschen" (Homecoming) was sung by the Ottendorf-Okrilla men's choir. Afterwards, both Radeberg students and young people as well as several social work projects took over the repair and maintenance of the park.

The bank reinforcements of the Grosse Röder in the area of ​​the grove were renovated in 2007 by the river management of the state dam administration of Saxony and reinforced with several tons of greywacke .

Pedestrian bridge over the Große Röder in the Gelbkehain

After the neighboring “Maxim Gorki” cultural center was demolished in 2009, the renatured area with new tree plantings and a circular path was connected to the Gelbkehain. At the same time, retaining walls and embankments were renewed in the park.

As part of the expansion of the Grünes Band green belt in Radeberg, the renovation of the Gelbkehaines including a walkable connection between both banks of the Röder and thus from the park on the area of ​​the former cultural center to the city center / stairs to the Humboldt Gymnasium is planned. The steel pedestrian bridge in Gelbkehain was opened to the public in June 2019.

Memorial stone

Memorial stone in the Gelbkehain

The memorial stone, which was donated and unveiled by the Radeberg Folk Choir on the occasion of the naming of the park in 1946, bears the following inscription:

SÄNGERHAIN
JOHANNES GELBKE
Hear the rustling of the old oak trees
July 19, 1946
The folk choir Radeberg

The line Horch die alten Eichen rauschen refers to Gelbke's best-known work, the setting of Emil Schimpke's poem Heimkehr from 1882 .

Others

For several years there have been plans by the Radeberg city council to expand the Gelbkehain further. The park is to be supplemented with new green spaces and expanded into the Radeberg Green Belt along the Große Röder. Work on the Green Belt began in 2018 on the site of an old print shop on Gelbkehain and beyond the Hospital Bridge, along the course of the Große Röder on August-Bebel-Straße.

Web links

Commons : Gelbkehain  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reference sheet revitalization of the former Maxim Gorki cultural center. (PDF; 1.7 MB) Schubert planning office, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ R. Hanke: Soon there will be a meeting of singers in the Gelbke-Hain? In: Sächsische Zeitung , edition 14 September 1993.
  3. ^ Katja Altmann: Radeberg . Sutton Verlag , Erfurt 1999, ISBN 978-3-89702-110-5 , p. 86 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Stroll through the city center through Radeberg, section “Gelbke-Hain”. City of Radeberg, accessed on June 12, 2014 .
  5. ↑ M. Töpper, U. Richter: "The Gelbke-Hain in Radeberg" . Final documentation from ABS Elektrotechnik Dresden, regional management Radeberg, from September 11, 1993 to the city administration of Radeberg.
  6. ↑ Citizens for Citizens. New, old model - young people take care of Gelbkehain. In: Sächsische Zeitung , edition October 2, 1996.
  7. ↑ Bettina Schneider: Specialist offices are satisfied with their work. In: Sächsische Zeitung , edition 19 August 1999.
  8. ↑ Matthias Weigel: Fresh stones for the Röder. In: Sächsische Zeitung , edition August 24, 2007.
  9. ↑ Decision to implement the measure “Revitalization of the wasteland of the former Maxim Gorki cultural center”. City council resolution 16/09 of March 25, 2009, City Council Radeberg, accessed on June 12, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Radeberg gets rid of ailing building fabric. State Office of Saxony, accessed on June 12, 2014 .
  11. ^ History of the Germans in Buffalo and Erie Counties, NY Verlag Reinecke & Zesch, Buffalo 1898, p. 66/67 ( online ).
  12. ↑ Sheet music in the holdings of the Leipzig City History Museum , inventory number: A / 3803/2009 ( online ).
  13. ↑ Thomas Drendel: Green belt grows in Radeberg. In: Sächsische Zeitung , edition 9 September 2018.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '52.8 "  N , 13 ° 55' 4.7"  E