Kierberger Bahnhofspark

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Kierberger Bahnhofspark

The Kierberger Bahnhofspark is a green area in Kierberg , a district of the city of Brühl in the Rhein-Erft district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The park is located south of the village center and there south of the Kierberg train station . It is bounded in the north-west by the Hürth-Kalscheuren-Ehrang railway line and in the south by residential developments that were built along Schulstrasse . This is also the south-eastern boundary, which as Kierberger Straße leads in a north-easterly direction to the district of Vochem . This is also the entrance to the train station and crosses the park in its southern part.

history

At the end of the 1870s, Kaiser Wilhelm I had the Kaiserbahnhof built in order to reach the Brühler Schloss from there via the Kaiserstraße running south-east . In addition to a representative entrance building, the Brühl master gardener Stephan Schäfer laid out a surrounding park between 1874 and 1877. The central design element was the extension of Kaiserstraße into the park, which at the time it was built ended in an arch directly in front of the outside staircase of the reception building. In addition to several fountains, Schäfer had numerous trees planted and extensive paths laid out. As a result, the park developed into a popular destination for bourgeois society. In 1998 the area was redeveloped on the initiative of the Kierberg village community and the tree population has been comprehensively cared for since then.

Furnishing

Sculpture with the rape of Persephone

In addition to domestic trees such as linden , maple and chestnut , Schäfer also planted foreign plants, including magnolias , oaks from Hungary , bald cypresses as well as a sequoia tree and a ginkgo .

At the driveway to the train station there is a boulder with the label "Dorfgemeinschaft / Kierberg 1958–1998". The village community set up another boulder in the southwest. He commemorates the victims of the First and Second World Wars with the words “We remember / the victims / both world wars” . To the northeast of this memorial is a sculpture by an unknown artist. It dates from around 1900 and shows the robbery of Persephone . Experts suspect that it was created for a Paris World Exhibition . On the transport from Berlin to France , it is said that two steam locomotives collided in Cologne , in which the plastic was damaged. Having become unusable for the world exhibition, the stationmaster at the time first brought the sculpture to an outbuilding of the Kierberg station before it was placed in the back of the park around 1910. She developed into a magnet for young couples. During the time of National Socialism , craftsmen placed the statue in front of a high cross in the palace gardens ; so did the Nazis , the processions of the Christian churches interfere. After a joint initiative by KG Löstige Kierberger and a city employee, the sculpture was put back in the park in 1976. The locals simply call her "The Bläcke Mann" (the naked man).

To the south of the outside staircase, gardeners created a playground with spring seesaws, several slides, a sandpit and a swing.

Web links

Commons : Kierberger Bahnhofspark  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Imgrund , Nina Osmers : 111 places in the Cologne area that you have to see. Verlag Emons, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89705-777-7 , location 25
  2. ↑ bj: Bläcker man . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , February 22, 2006, accessed on February 28, 2018.
  3. ↑ Klütten, Kaiser, Bürgersleut - On the history of the Kaiserbahnhof , (PDF), Wisoveg website - Economic, social and traffic events in the Rhineland, accessed on February 23, 2018.

Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 15.5 ″  N , 6 ° 53 ′ 20.7 ″  E