Hessepark

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Hessepark in Blankenese

The Hessepark is located in the Hamburg district of Blankenese . The park is named after the family of the last owners.

history

In 1799, the Hamburg merchant and director of Gothaer Versicherung Rütger Heinrich Klünder (1763–1849) acquired the site and created a park on it. After his death, the property was divided and sold. In the mid-fifties of the 19th century, the Hamburg Senate Syndicate Carl Hermann Merck (1809–1880), a brother of Ernst Merck, acquired the site. In 1876 the park was acquired by George Heinrich Hesse (1815–1909), co-owner of Hesse Newman and one of the founders of Commerzbank . After Hesse's death, the park became the property of his daughter Ellen Hesse and her husband, who later became police chief Otto Stürken . Her son Otto sold the Hessepark to the Blankenese community in 1926. This parceled out a large part of the park, the rest has since been open to the public.

today

Sculpture “The Little Elbe Virgin” by Arthur Bock in the Hessepark Hamburg-Blankenese

In addition to a playground, some benches, very old trees and spacious green areas, the park also has a swimming pool, which belongs to the nearby Blankenese grammar school . In addition, the Hessepark is also known for its ring of old chestnuts in the center of the park, from this center several curved paths run in all directions. On one of these paths, surrounded by rhododendron bushes, rests a small sculpture by Arthur Bock , known as "Die Hockende". In the meantime, the Hessepark is also a garden monument according to the Hamburg Monument Protection Act.

The "Hesse-Haus" country house in the north of the park is a listed building and is now part of the Bugenhagen School, which opened in Hessepark in 2008 .

literature

  • Paul Th. Hoffmann: The Elbchaussee. Their country estates, people and fates. 8th edition. Broschek, Hamburg 1977, ISBN 3-7672-0496-7 , p. 271 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The Kiekeberg in Change of Time" in North German News, February 2, 1951
  2. ^ Hessepark , in: hamburg.de
  3. ^ Hesse house in the Hessepark (formerly Landhaus Klünder). Retrieved May 31, 2017 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 37 ″  N , 9 ° 48 ′ 31 ″  E