Jardin Darcy
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| Fountain in the Jardin Darcy | |
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| place | Dijon |
| Created | 1880 |
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| Parking area | 1 hectare |
The Jardin Darcy is after the engineer Henry Darcy named park in Dijon . The green area is located near the historic center and was the city's first public park.
description
The Jardin Darcy is located west of the medieval city center at the connection between the city center and Dijon-Ville train station . The park is bordered by Place Darcy in the south and south-east, by Avenue de la Première Armée Française in the north-east and by Rue de Rosoir in the west and Place du Rosoir in the north-west.
The Dijon-born engineer Henry Darcy had a drinking water storage tank built on the site of the present park between 1838 and 1840. The basin was 28 meters in diameter and had a capacity of 350,000 liters. The water came into the city through pipelines from Haute vallée du Suzon, around twelve kilometers away, and supplied the approximately 29,000 inhabitants with drinking water. Dijon was one of the first cities to have a modern drinking water supply.
The architect Émile Sagot (1805–1888) built a cover over the drinking water storage tank and built a tower in the middle in the neo-renaissance style with the base of an octagon . A row of open columns supporting the roof rises above the brick ground floor of the tower. A door on the ground floor provides access to the water reservoir. There is a bust of Henry Darcy above the door. Accordingly, there is also the name Monument à Darcy for the tower . Other names are Monument du réservoir des fontaines or Château d'eau .
In 1880 today's gardens were built according to plans by Félix Vionnois (1841–1902) as Dijon’s first public park. Below the Darcy water reservoir, he had a large terrace-like fountain with a waterfall and wide stairs flanking it. In this symmetrical design, light balustrades are the defining design element. Numerous benches and a lawn for sunbathing invite visitors to linger and there is also a playground for children to enjoy. Among the sculptures in the park is a polar bear based on a design by the Burgundian sculptor François Pompon . It is a copy of the original in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris . The copy was made by Henri Martinet after Pompon's death in 1937.
The Jardin Darcy has an old stock of trees. Among the different types include silver lime , Norway maple , sycamore , Atlas cedar and Japanese pagoda tree . There are also shrubs such as lilacs and sparrows, as well as the flowerbeds that are common in a park, with planting that varies with the seasons.
Monument à Darcy with entrance to the water reservoir
Fountain system with basins, waterfall, stairs and balustrades
Polar bear sculpture based on an original by François Pompon
View of Place Darcy with its old trees
literature
- Catherine Croisier-Lopez, Anne-Sophie Santelli: Petit Futé Dijon . Nouvelles Editions de l'Université, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-74-692576-2 .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 19 '28 " N , 5 ° 1' 56" E