Kellinghusens Park

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Pond near the Loehrsweg entrance with a farmer's cottage in the background.

Kellinghusens Park (coll. Also Kellinghusenpark) is a 2.5 hectare park in the Hamburg district of Eppendorf .

The park is named after the former mayor of Hamburg, Heinrich Kellinghusen , who acquired the area from the merchant Johann Paul Friedrich Dankert in 1842. A park at this point is already shown on a map from 1774. The city of Hamburg acquired the property in 1925 from Kellinghusen's heirs. The original plan was to relocate the entire park area and build houses on it, a corresponding development plan had already been adopted. Because of the significant tree population - among other things, a 300 year old copper beech, an Indian tulip tree and a bald cypress still standing today - the director of the Hamburg horticultural sector Otto Linne rejected these plans of the finance deputation . He also succeeded in getting chief construction director Fritz Schumacher to his side. In 1929 Linne was able to give the park its present form. Once intended as a park for the elderly, plans for a children's playground at that time were discarded due to noise pollution. Today there is a children's playground at the entrance near the Kellinghusenstraße underground station . The pond at the entrance to Loehrsweg is the remainder of what used to be a much larger fish pond.

In the 1930s a small farmer's cottage was added. Today the Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland uses the thatched roof building, which was previously used as a cowshed, for the association's youth work. It was destroyed by fire several times (1937, 1987 and 2014), but was rebuilt each time.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kellinghusens Park on hamburg.de
  2. ^ A b c Hans-Helmut Homann: "Eppendorfer Parks - Kellinghusenpark", in: Der Eppendorfer, issue April 2011, page 6.
  3. ↑ "Eppendorf: Sea of Flames in Kellinghusenpark - Youth House Burned Out " , on www.mopo.de, published on September 23, 2014, accessed on April 7, 2017.

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Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 17.2 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 18.9 ″  E