Herzberg (Peine)
The Herzberg is an urban forest in the district town of Peine , Lower Saxony.
The Herzberg, an 80.5 m above sea level, was used as the field name . NHN high elevation in the north of the city center , already mentioned in a document in 1702. In 1896, the city of Peine acquired an initial area of around 25.5 hectares and from 1897 onwards a park was created .
In 1911 Wilhelm Krasnapolsky (1834–1912) donated 30,000 gold marks for reforestation . The descendant of Polish immigrants, who grew up in Peine, emigrated to the Netherlands in 1856 after completing his training as a tailor , where he became rich as a merchant. A memorial stone commemorates him on Krasnapolsky-Weg on the so-called Liebesgrund . From there, a path leads up to the hill with the water tower built in 1908 in the style of romantic castles .
Today, the Herzberg borders an industrial park in the northeast and is protected from noise by the federal motorway 2 . In the west the Sundernstrasse leads to the Eixer See . On Kastanienallee in the south there is a roundabout with two memorials for the victims of the two world wars and the Nazi tyranny.
According to the legend , the Herzberg was created with sand from the Lüneburg Heath that a giant poured out of his boots.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Utecht: 100 years Herzberg - 100th anniversary of A. W. Krasnapolsky's death . City of Peine (Ed.), Peine 2010
- ↑ The Krasnapolsky memorial stone on the website of the city of Peine
- ↑ The origin story on the website of the city of Peine
Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 6.6 ″ N , 10 ° 13 ′ 36 ″ E