Kaiser-Friedrich-Park
The Kaiser-Friedrich-Park is a park in the south of Aachen , which was named after the German Emperor Friedrich III, who died in 1888 . was named.
history
The park was laid out together with the adjacent Kaiser-Friedrich-Allee between 1908 and 1910 according to plans by the Aachen City Garden Director Weßberge, after the city council approved the construction costs of 180,000 Reichsmarks. For this purpose, the park was equipped with, among other things, rare trees from the stocks of the Aachen cloth manufacturer and hobby dendrologist Friedrich von Halfern, who had already created the family-owned Von Halfern Park .
concept
Conceived as a public park, a small dam, the Hangeweiher, fed by the Pau , was redesigned as a boat pond . This was created as the first rain retention basin in Aachen in the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th century it functioned as a water reserve for the cloth factories in Aachen. The Hangeweiher outdoor pool was built in the immediate vicinity, and its large swimming pool was also intended to be used for sporting competitions. In 1850 it was the first swimming pool in Aachen. The adjacent meadows were used as a so-called air bath . Originally, a soccer field in the west of the park and two children's playgrounds added to the green area . The horticultural concept envisaged the creation of terraced flower beds, which visually gave the impression of a closed garden area, but at the same time were easily visible.
Weßberge designed the 6.7 hectare park in the style of an English landscape garden . A valuable stock of trees with trees that are now over a hundred years old, such as a white willow (1904), a cake tree (1904), a pagoda tree (1907) and a silver maple (1907), distinguishes the green area along with various flower borders. At the avifauna of the park include not only the domestic songbirds , black-headed gulls , crows and ravens , various water birds such as mallard ducks , mute swans , coots , moorhens , Nile and Canada geese , Muscovy ducks and Pochard .
Park
The park was expanded to the southwest in the 1920s with the horticultural design of Kaiser-Friedrich-Allee. If you follow the course of the Paubach stream to the end of Kaiser-Friedrich-Allee, you come to the Triton Fountain , created in 1906/07 by Carl Burger , which is fed by water from the Paubach. This fountain was moved from there to Kaiser-Friedrich-Allee in 1923 as part of the redesign of the station forecourt. The Pau enters the park - relatively inconspicuous today - via an artificially created water cascade. The Volkssternwarte Aachen and the park of the old clinic are in the immediate vicinity .
To this day, despite the stresses and strains of two world wars, the park has largely been preserved in its original state. A boat rental ( pedal boats ) has established itself on the Kahnweiher with its numerous ducks and swans and the playgrounds have been supplemented with a roller skating rink. A few tennis courts were also added. The open-air swimming pool, which is also still in existence, is the only open-air swimming pool in the city of Aachen and the only one with an official 50 m competition track (1925: 100 m length, 45 m width) in the Aachen city region . Sufficient lawns have been left within the park, which are used as sunbathing areas by those seeking relaxation in summer. In addition, a small excursion restaurant ensures the physical well-being of the park visitors.
monument
In 1977 Kaiser-Friedrich-Park was included in the list of monuments of the Rhineland State Conservator :
- “Kaiser-Friedrich-Allee / Am Hangeweiher
1907–1910 (Weßberge), extensions in 1921 and 1923–1925, changes after 1945,
park around the Hangeweiher; the extensions include the Paubach, the source of which is taken from a fountain (fountain figure by Burger) that stood in front of the main station until 1923; at the entrance to Kaiser-Friedrich-Park 2 gate pillars from the former Königstor "
architecture
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The park architecture forms a set of stairs on four terraces , the terrace garden . The lowest terrace, located directly on the pond, is marked by two archways as entrances and exits; the second terrace flanking massive, square and with tent roofs provided passage pavilions . The third terrace is a pure garden with beds and benches. The fourth and top terrace forms a viewing platform at the park entrance at the corner of Aachener- and Münchener Allee - Im Brockenfeld and Kaiser-Friedrich-Allee with a pergola on concrete pillars and two symmetrical garden staircases in the form of a two-flight angled staircase with a rounded quarter landing. Weßberge planned the terrace garden as a flower-filled terrace complex.
The input Goethestraße form two Torpfeiler- spoils from the former customs house Königstor the architect Adam Franz Friedrich Leydel . At the opposite entrance, Am Hangeweiher , you can overlook the pond from a viewing platform and see the Paubach flowing down. The influence includes a small dam with a panoramic view and a stone bridge.
Within the park there are numerous benches, a boathouse, a restaurant and an arbor pavilion.
literature
- Garden Director a. D. Wessberge: The public facilities and the Aachen forest . German Architecture and Industry Publishing House (DARI), 1925.
- Holger A. Dux : Aachen from A to Z . Aschendorff Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-402-05465-5 .
- Remarkable trees in the city of Aachen. Contemporary witnesses of the city's history. Published by City of Aachen, The Lord Mayor, Aachen City Administration and Environment Department. Aachen Foundation Kathy Beys. Klenkes, Aachen 2002, p. 28f.
Web links
- Kaiser-Friedrich-Park and Hangeweiher , portrait on the website of the Ecology Center Aachen from January 2016
- Impressions from Kaiser-Friedrich-Park Aachen
Individual evidence
- ^ Günther Borchers (Ed.): Landeskonservator Rheinland. List of monuments. 1.1 Aachen city center with Frankenberg quarter . Edited by Volker Osteneck with the assistance of Hans Königs . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1977, pp. 33, 215, Fig. 69: Kaiser-Friedrich-Allee fountain (1976).
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 33.2 " N , 6 ° 4 ′ 24.2" E