Johannapark
The Johannapark is an eleven hectare large, downtown park in Leipzig . In the south-west it merges seamlessly into the Clara-Zetkin-Park and together with it and the Palmengarten form a large park landscape that continues in the north and south in the Leipzig floodplain forest .
location
The park is located in the Leipzig Westvorstadt area, in the Zentrum-West district . It is framed northwest by Ferdinand-Lassalle-Strasse, northeast by Paul-Gerhardt-Weg and Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse, in the south by Karl-Tauchnitz-Strasse and in the southwest by Edvard-Grieg-Allee. Adjacent residential areas are the Bachviertel , the Innere Westvorstadt and the music district .
history
The Johannapark was created in the years 1858 to 1863 by the Leipzig entrepreneur and banker Wilhelm Theodor Seyfferth (1807-1881) at his own expense and later donated to the city. He wanted to remember his daughter Johanna Natalie Schulz, who died at the age of 21. According to tradition, she was broken because, in accordance with her father's wish, she met the unloved Dr. Gustav Schulz had to marry. Full of remorse, her father thought of leaving something for posterity that would have been in her favor:
“The idea of establishing a foundation from a capital that was planned for my deceased daughter, which would perpetuate not only her name, but also the predominant direction of her character 'to make others happy', prompted me to visit Professor Schwägrichen's meadow to buy on Kuhstrange . It is my intention to make it into a park and to name this Johannapark. "
Seyfferth acquired the Martorffer meadow on the banks of the Pleiße and some adjoining areas and had it converted into a park in the style of English landscape gardens according to plans by Peter Joseph Lenné (1789–1866) . The park was designed by the Leipzig council gardener Otto Wittenberg (1834–1918). As usual with Lenné, many exotic tree species were planted, so that the park got the character of a botanical garden in parts. A pond with a small island and two bridges was created in the center of the green area.
With Seyfferths death in 1881, the park was in his will to the city of Leipzig on the condition not to build over the terrain. It was enlarged again to a base area of eight hectares. With the construction of the Luther Church between 1884 and 1887, an architectural accent in the neo-Gothic style was set. By amalgamating with the gardens and land of some buildings destroyed in World War II, the park got its current dimensions.
The Johannapark was combined with the neighboring Albertpark , the Scheibenholzpark and the Palmengarten in 1955 under the name of the Central Culture Park “ Clara Zetkin ” . Since April 2011 the park has had its old name Johannapark again .
Monuments
- In 1896 the city erected the Seyfferth monument in the park for the founder . Inscription on the base: "The thankful city to the founder of Johannapark" . The pedestal is by Hugo Licht (1841–1923), the marble bust by Melchior zur Strasse (1832–1896). A wall grave of the Seyfferth family is on the outside of the choir of the Luther Church.
- The Leipzig monument erected in 1897 for Chancellor Bismarck by Adolf Lehnert (1862–1948) and Josef Mágr (1861–1924) was destroyed in 1946.
- In 1967 the Clara Zetkin memorial by the sculptor Walter Arnold (1909–1979) was erected on the same spot on the occasion of her 110th birthday .
- In 1996, the Leipzig entrepreneur Walter Cramer (1886–1944), who was involved in the failed assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 on Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), was honored with a monument here by the city of Leipzig. The stele made of black granite and green Saxon serpentinite is the work of the sculptor Klaus Friedrich Messerschmidt (* 1945).
Seyfferth monument (bust), 2010
The former Bismarck monument from 1897
Clara Zetkin Memorial, 2010
Middle section of the stele for
Walter Cramer, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plan of the Johannapark and the neighboring parks (PDF file, 1.16 MB)
- ↑ Resolution proposal for renaming (PDF file, 49 kB)
literature
- Hans-Christian Mannschatz: Park and Racecourse . In: The Leipzig Music Quarter . Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, 1997, ISBN 3-930433-18-4 , pp. 135 ff.
Web links
- Johannapark in the Leipzig Lexicon
- Johannapark on the website of the city of Leipzig
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 4.4 " N , 12 ° 21 ′ 45.1" E