Königsgarten (Wyk auf Föhr)

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The Königsgarten was to the west of the inland port and north of Hafenstrasse in Wyk auf Föhr
Today a street name still reminds of the former Königsgarten

The Königsgarten is a former landscape park on the outskirts of Wyk auf Föhr .

In 1843, on behalf of Caroline Amalie , the wife of the Danish King Christian VIII , the Royal Particulair Chamber in Copenhagen bought land around the former rinsing basin at Wyker Hafen with the aim of creating a public park in the sense of a public garden for strolling set up. The first plantings, including chestnuts, were carried out as early as autumn 1843 .

The park was relatively deep, which can be traced back to a Christmas flood in 1717 , which broke through the dyke line here and hollowed out and washed away the soil behind it. The resulting Wehle was used as a rinsing basin since 1806, which was connected to the adjoining port via a lock and could thus be used at low tide to clean the port from the accumulated sea mud or port silt. After 1843 this wehle became a central landscape element of the newly created garden as a pond. The park was named Königsgarten , just like the Kongens Have park in Copenhagen . It was also the King's Garden in which King Christian VIII and his staff held their court camp under a thatched roof during his visits to the island of Föhr. Not far from the garden was the royal house, which served as a summer residence for Christian VIII and later burned down. When the King's Garden was to be sold after the death of King Christian VIII in 1848, the town of Wyk tried to acquire it and was finally awarded the contract. A corresponding purchase agreement between the Flecken and the royal particulair chamber was concluded on September 9, 1853. In an addition it was formulated as a condition that the park "must be maintained forever (...) for the benefit of the public from the Fleckenscasse" and "may never be used for other purposes". A corresponding certificate was issued at Christiansborg Palace and provided with the seal of the new King Frederik VII . In accordance with the terms of the contract, the park was retained as a public park even after the German-Danish War and Wyk's handover to Prussia. Only immediately after the Second World War were the trees in the Königsgarten felled due to the lack of fuel. In 1965 the pond in the Königsgarten was filled with rubble. Today the former Königsgarten is part of an industrial park. The name of the street Am Königsgarten alone is still reminiscent of the former park.

literature

  • Karin Hansen: Back and forth through Wyk auf Föhr , Wyk 2020, p. 26 f.
  • Karin Hansen: The spots Wyk on the island of Föhr , 2010, ISBN 9783898763714 , p. 41 f.
  • Immanuel Schiödte: The North Sea island of Föhr and its seaside resort , Hamburg 1866, p. 14
  • JP Trap: Statistisk-topographisk Beskrivelse af Hertugdømmet Slesvig , Tønder Amt, Kjøbenhavn 1864
  • A summer in Schleswig , from the Danish by Heinrich Helms, Leipzig 1855, p. 51

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karin Hansen: Der Flecken Wyk on the island of Föhr , 2010, ISBN 9783898763714 , p. 65.

Coordinates: 54 ° 41 ′ 29.5 ″  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 11 ″  E