Greiffenhorstpark
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The Greiffenhorstpark is a park in the Linn district of Krefeld , near Linn Castle . Together with the Greiffenhorst House (also called Greiffenhorst-Schlösschen ) and the Hausenhof , it is entered in the town's list of monuments.
history
Design concept
The park along the former Mühlenbach stream in Linner was designed around 1840 on behalf of Cornelius de Greiff by the renowned garden architect and Düsseldorf court garden director Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe in the style of a classic English landscape garden as a connection between the Mühlenhof and the Hausenhof .
The facility was laid out on a strip of meadow only 80 to 90 meters wide on both sides of the Mühlenbach, with arable land to the north and south. Today the park forms the border between the settlement areas on the north side and the open landscape in the south.
Weyhe shaped the brook into a long pond and had several bridges built. The Greiffenhorst-Schlösschen serves several times as a point de vue (eye-catcher) in the course of the sweeping park paths between varied groups of trees and bushes and landscape modeling. Weyhe also visually expanded the park by incorporating the surrounding landscape (also in the sense of a decorated farm landscape, a so-called ornamented farm ) into it through several views .
Restoration
This original planting and space concept was largely restored in 2001/2002 in the run-up to the decentralized state horticultural show Euroga 2002 plus , during which the Greiffenhorstpark was one of seven locations, together with the Linn Castle Park according to garden conservation aspects. Overgrown visual relationships were exposed, the dried out pond was desludged, sealed and refilled, trees that had died were replanted with species used by Weyhe, paths were reconstructed using search excavations, and seats and parking bridges were newly created according to the old plans. In Park and the adjacent landscape, the largest currently in North Rhine-Westphalia was known as part of the recovery measures crested newt -Population discovered. Therefore, in the area of the eastern park extension from the 1920s, sludge removal and sealing was dispensed with, and part of the sludge and bank vegetation was reintroduced in the western part as initial planting after sealing.
In 2004/2005 the facility, like numerous other Krefeld parks , was included in the street of garden art between the Rhine and the Maas .
building
House Greiffenhorst
From 1838 to 1842 the Krefeld silk manufacturer Cornelius de Greiff had a garden and hunting lodge built on his property between the Mühlenhof and Hausenhof, which he inherited in 1826 , probably according to plans by the Düsseldorf agricultural inspector Otto von Gloeden . The three-storey central building has an octagonal floor plan, supplemented on four sides by two-storey wing structures, which expand the overall structure into a cross shape. Stylistically, the building is assigned to the so-called Schinkel style , a free variety of classicism .
Hausenhof
The Hausenhof behind the Greiffenhorstschlösschen with its chapel, an outbuilding to Haus Greiffenhorst built in the 19th century , is now an outstation of the Krefeld Zoo . Newly arrived animals are initially housed there for observation ( quarantine ), as well as animals that are no longer suitable for groups and therefore have to be given to other zoos (e.g. animal children rejected by their parents), as well as duplicate copies.
media
- Landscape parks of the 19th century as garden art. Linn Castle Park and Greiffenhorst Park. Gardens in Krefeld . VHS video, 21 min., Ed. from the Rhineland Regional Council, 2002. Media no. 4254467.
- Ernst Schraetz: A list of plants from Greiffenhorstpark in Krefeld-Linn . In: The Lower Rhine. Vol. 70, 2003, H. 1, pp. 43-51.
- Guide through the Electorate of Cologne Castle Linn and the Greiffenhorst Park . Rühl Verlag, Krefeld, around 1930
Web links
- Garden art route between the Rhine and Maas : Greiffenhorstpark and flyer to Greiffenhorstpark
- Entry on Greiffenhorstpark in Linn in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Krefeld, status 11/2019 , object numbers : 819 (Park), 75 (Haus Greifenhorst) and 76 (Hausenhof)
- ↑ after Thomas Visser: The conflict between nature conservation and culture using the example of Greiffenhorst Park . In: Maja Becker (Red.): Nature meets culture - meaning and realization of cultural and natural spaces in the city , proceedings for the NABU conference on 5th / 6th July 2002 in Düsseldorf, p. 26ff. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 11 ″ N , 6 ° 39 ′ 8 ″ E