Herosé Park

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Herosé Park in Constance

The Herosé Park is located in Constance district Petershausen between the Seerhein , the road on the Rhine and the Reichenaustraße . To the west, next to the park, was the eponymous textile factory Herosé until the year 2000 , at the east end of the park is the Villa Rheinburg, behind it are the municipal children's house on the Rhine and the Rhine and indoor swimming pool of the city of Konstanz.

Herosé Park is cut through by a cycle and footpath that connects the old town of Constance with the areas on the right bank of the Rhine from the cycle bridge . The route is one of the main routes for cyclists and pedestrians in Constance, and up to 15,000 cyclists use it every day.

History and design

Up until the year 2000, the Herosé company or its successors operated textile finishing on the site west of what is today the park . The city of Konstanz has owned the park and the new "Herosé" villa, known as Rheinburg, since 1925. It later also acquired the industrial area to the west in order to "make a contribution to sustainable urban development" through "conversion". This should be promoted with the help of an urban planning ideas competition, which was carried out from July to December 2002. An urban development that included both living and working should be planned. The old villa, known as the Schneckenburg , and the new Villa Herosé were to be linked to the park. The concept also envisaged the continuation of the Lake Constance shore path. The winner was the Berlin architecture office led by Klaus Theo Brenner , who planned U-shaped house groups. After public participation, the development on the edge of the park was adapted. The promenade was also widened by another five meters from the original 15 meters. A cooperation between the Städtische Wohnungsbaugesellschaft mbH Konstanz (WOBAK) and the Oberzellerhau building cooperative (BGO) Singen implemented the five building blocks between 2006 and 2013.

In Herosé-Park, the former private park of the entrepreneurial family, there are some play equipment, seating, barbecue areas and free swimming areas. A stream is fed by a few artesian wells that were built around 700 meters from the site between 1878 and 1881. The water from the wells was fed into the city's sewer network for decades. Since July 2009, around 12 to 15 liters of water per second have been flowing from the park into the Seerhein through an artificially created stream.

View from the footpath along the banks of the Seerhein

Historic buildings in and around the park

The core of the area called the Rheingut is the (villa) Schneckenburg . It is outside the park, 200 m further west, almost directly on the Seerhein. It is an estate from pre-industrial times that was built in the 17th and 18th centuries. The canons of Constance from Waldburg-Wolfegg converted it into a late-baroque country residence in the 19th century , presumably as a single-storey pleasure house with a garden hall and an upstream shipping pier, surrounded by orchards. In 1893, Johann Georg Schlumberger bought the estate and founded the third Indian factory in Constance. He was a member of the Geneva colony that operated the India factory on Donimikaner Island. The building was probably added at this time and served as the home of the factory owner. In 1812 the brothers Ludwig and Gabriel Herosé bought the entire site and built their textile company there, which in 1960 employed around 1,100 people. The house is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the `` bishop's villa '', but it never had anything to do with a bishop. Today, the “Cultural Foundations of Integration” cluster of excellence at the University of Konstanz is located in the listed building.

The newer villa of the Herosés, the "Rheinburg" villa, is located on the eastern edge of the park behind large trees - as far away as possible from the emissions from the factory. It dates from around 1860 and was expanded around 1907. The house has been used by the authorities since the city of Konstanz bought it in 1925 and was also the seat of the French military during the occupation after World War II. Since 2006 it has been rented by the TAK Technische Akademie Konstanz gGmbH on behalf of the University of Konstanz Technology, Business and Design ( HTWG ) and houses six institutes of the university, including TAK, Lake Constance Business School GmbH (LCBS) and the Johner Institute who carry out extra-occupational academic training.

Another building belonging to the Herosé family, Landhaus Ziegelhütte , was roughly in the northeast corner of the park. It was torn down in 2004, as was a 20th century doctors' villa a little further northeast of it at today's roundabout. The area is now part of the park.

Web links

Commons : Herosé-Park  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Jörg-Peter Rau: Incredible: Constance bicycle bridge is closed for weeks - completely. In: Südkurier of July 17, 2015.
  2. Herosé - “Stadt am Seerhein” , website of the city of Konstanz, accessed on September 29, 2013.
  3. Flyer Schneckenburg from the Monument Office of the City of Konstanz for the Open Monument Day 2011

Coordinates: 47 ° 40 ′ 11.3 "  N , 9 ° 10 ′ 27.1"  E