King Albert Park

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The König-Albert-Park was a 30 hectare green area in Leipzig . It is now part of the Clara Zetkin Park .

location

The König-Albert-Park is located about two kilometers southwest of Leipzig city center. It is bounded in the northwest by Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße (formerly Plagwitzer Straße), in the north by Ferdinand-Lassalle-Straße (formerly Bismarckstraße), in the east by Edvard-Grieg-Allee (formerly part of Marschnerstraße) and Karl -Tauchnitz-Straße, in the south from Scheibenholz and Nonnenholz and in the west from Klingerweg (formerly part of the Nonnenweg).

The Elster flood bed , which runs roughly in a north-south direction, divides König-Albert-Park into a western and an eastern area. At right angles to this, the main axis of the park, Anton-Bruckner-Allee (formerly König-Albert-Allee), connects Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße in the east with Klingerweg in the west.

Story, name

The island pond shortly after its creation

The park named after King Albert was created in connection with the Saxon-Thuringian industrial and commercial exhibition in 1897 . The main route network and the two large bodies of water in the course of Anton-Bruckner-Allee and south of it (today Inselteich) were laid out for the exhibition.

After the exhibition was over, the exhibition buildings were demolished and the park completed. Almost 180,000 gold marks from the estate of the Leipzig merchant Franz Dominic Grassi were used to create the park . On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the accession of the Saxon sovereign to the throne , the park was named King Albert Park. Now the two older parks, the northern Johannapark and the southern Scheibenholzpark , were connected via the König-Albert-Park.

Pavilion from Gerhard's garden

The design of the park, including the areas to the west of the flood bed, was continued in the years after the exhibition under gardening director Otto Wittenberg and from 1901 under his successor Carl Hampel .

In 1908 the pavilion from Gerhard's garden, also known as the sun temple, was erected, which had to be dismantled in the course of the parceling of this complex and now found its new location in the area west of the flood bed. The music pavilion on today's Richard-Strauss-Platz was built in 1912. Both pavilions are still preserved today. The Franz Schubert Monument has been located in the north-eastern part of the park since 1929.

After the abdication of the Saxon royal family in 1918, the park was renamed Albertpark , omitting the title of ruler .

In 1955, this was combined with the Johannapark, the Scheibenholzpark and the palm garden to form the central culture park “ Clara Zetkin (Clara Zetkin Park for short) and restaurants, sports and cultural facilities were built. In April 2011, the city of Leipzig decided that the former Albertpark would become the Clara-Zetkin-Park together with the previous disc wood park . A motion to rename it back to König-Albert-Park did not find a majority in the city council.

Todays situation

Schubert monument

Although the name König-Albert-Park fades more and more into the background compared to Clara-Zetkin-Park, this part of the park together with Johannapark and Rosental represents the backbone of the local recreation in the center of Leipzig. Besides the pure relaxation in nature there is also a focus on exercise. In addition to runners on the park paths, inline skaters are particularly at home on the asphalted Anton-Bruckner-Allee. In the western part of the park, the company sports club AOK Leipzig e. V. its center for health sports, in which, in addition to prophylactic health and fitness sports, rehabilitation sports are also offered. 4600 club members in 313 sports groups are looked after. A modern mini golf course completes the facility. A club from the neighboring music district looks after the chess center, where the outdoor mind sport can be practiced in the warm season.

In addition to the much-visited glass house from the 1950s, which was restored in 2001, there is a newly built café at the historic music pavilion and other snack options.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Leipzig Lexicon
  2. ^ Website of the city of Leipzig
  3. ^ Website of the BSV AOK
  4. Chess Center

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 50.6 ″  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 20.8 ″  E