Johannisberg (Teutoburg Forest)
| Johannisberg | ||
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 View from the Sparrenburg to the Johannisberg |
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| height | 200 m above sea level NN | |
| location | North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany | |
| Mountains | Teutoburg Forest | |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 1 ′ 10 ″ N , 8 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Johannisberg is a 200 m high part of the northern ridge of the Teutoburg Forest in Bielefeld . Together with the Sparrenberg opposite, which carries the Sparrenburg , it delimits the northeast end of the Bielefelder Pass . The section of the ridge between the Bielefelder Pass and the cut of the Johannesbach (not to be confused with the Johannistal south of the Johannisberg) is scarcely structured. The 226 m high Ochsenberg joins the Johannisberg with the Ochsenheide, followed by the 209 m high Stecklenbrink.
The Johannisberg was first mentioned in a document in 1233. Mathilde, abbess of Schildesche Abbey , sold it to Count Ludwig von Ravensberg for 40 silver marks . From the 16th century onwards in the possession of the city and meanwhile leased as a meadow, it was bought in 1840 by the Bielefelder Schützengesellschaft, which built a representative rifle house there in 1895.
In the Second World War badly damaged it was demolished in the early 1960s. For decades, no appropriate use was found for this property, which offers excellent views of the city center and Sparrenburg.
At the beginning of the 21st century, measures to reconstruct the park and the viewpoints were decided, which should make the Johannisberg an inner-city park again. On the hillside to the city center, numerous renovations were carried out to restore the old park structure. 729,000 EUR were spent on building new facilities from city funds, 87.5% of the renovation of the upper Johannisberg was financed from funds from the economic stimulus package II, while 12.5% was made up of the city. In addition, thanks to the efforts of the four Bielefeld Rotary Clubs, the old civic terrace was re-inaugurated on May 9, 2014. It offers a vantage point to the Sparrenburg, to the Bielefelder Pass and over the entire Bielefeld city center to the Lippe district.
In 2014, almost the entire Johannisberg area, including the Winzerschen Garten , can again be used as an inner-city green area and, with the hiking and cycling trails and the close proximity to the botanical garden , the park-like Johannis cemetery and the Olderdissen zoo, is one of the most popular and high-quality residential locations .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Burgit Hörttrich: Very best prospects. In: Westfalen-Blatt (Bielefeld edition) No. 108, 2014, p. 15.
- ↑ The Johannisberg Panorama Park. Retrieved May 10, 2014 .
- ^ Real estate appraisal by Engel and Völkers. Retrieved May 10, 2014 .