Karl-Bittel-Park
The Karl-Bittel-Park (also Pfrimmpark ) is an approximately 6.5 hectare large public park in Worms .
geography
Karl-Bittel-Park, which is one of the few green lungs in the Nibelung city of Worms, is located in the Pfiffligheim and Hochheim districts between Rietschelstrasse, Buschgasse, Parkstrasse, Donnersbergstrasse and Nievergoltstrasse. The Pfrimm flows through it in a west-east direction , a left-hand or western tributary of the Rhine .
history
The park was laid out from 1896 to 1898 as an English landscape garden below today's Donnersbergstrasse. It was financed by Karl Bittel (1840–1911), a shoe manufacturer from Worms who had earned his money in New York and Paris and who spent his retirement in Worms. The design also probably came from Bittel, who was supported by the city's cultural engineer Karl Völzing. From 1900 onwards, Bittel had his house Kanzeleck built above the park; the family mausoleum , an urn grave designed as a round temple , is still in the park today.
In 1908 Bittel sold the park to the city of Worms for a symbolic price; this honored him in 1911 with a memorial stone in the eastern part of the park. In 1932 the park was renamed Karl-Bittel-Park in honor of the planner and financier, but it is called Pfrimmpark in the vernacular and in some cases on maps and city plans. In the 1970s, part of the area to the west of the park was used for the construction of Nievergoltstrasse.
Since 2006, the park has been renovated in a total of ten phases as part of a park conservation work . The reconstruction of the local tea house, of which only the foundation remained after several modifications, began in 2014.
Landscape image
The castle tower built in 1900 on the Kanzeleck and the urn mausoleum of the Bittel family were integrated into the Pfrimmpark as an artificial ruin . A pond was created in the eastern part of the park, which was first converted into a fountain in 1956 and then into a sand play area in the 1980s. Above this is a tea house as the central architectural element of the park.
Several lines of sight connect the park with the adjoining buildings, especially with the buildings financed by Bittel in Donnersbergstrasse and Parkstrasse around the main entrance to the park; further axes link the architectural elements in the park.
Within and near the park, the Pfrimm can be crossed on several pedestrian bridges and the ox piano between Pfiffligheim and Hochheim, which was laid out below a weir in 1898 ; there is a fish ladder there . Numerous paths, some of which lead along the Pfrimm beyond the park boundaries to Pfeddersheim and Neuhausen , run through the park.
A section of the Heimatverein Worms-Pfiffligheim e. V. laid out circular route to the sights of Pfiffligheim .
literature
- Stella Junker-Mielke: Hidden Gardens in Rhineland-Palatinate . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Leutkirch im Allgäu 2006. ISBN 3-89870-311-8 . Pp. 110-117
Web links
- Karl-Bittel-Park (Pfrimmpark) , in the Pfiffligheim district , on worms.de
Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 10.5 ″ N , 8 ° 20 ′ 8.5 ″ E