Monastery Park (Braunschweig)

View of the monastery park

The monastery park in Braunschweig is a closed park on the monastery grounds in the Riddagshausen district . The former estate park of the Riddagshausen domain has been a nature reserve since 1936 and has also been a listed building since the mid-1960s. It borders the monastery garden . There are two fish ponds in the park and the honeycomb flows through it. A visit to the monastery park is possible during the guided tours offered.

history

The park was laid out in the middle of the 19th century in the style of an English landscape garden. The redesign took place on the instructions of the then domain tenant, who used it as a private garden. For the system, the monastery wall was moved to the south and the honeycomb was moved from the enclosure area of ​​the monastery to the park. The old geometric gardens have been replaced by natural garden shapes. The park had ponds and a stream with a waterfall as well as lawns, meadows, beds, paths, trees and garden houses.

When the city took ownership of the domain in the mid-1950s, the park also came into their own. The facility was not used for decades. The Diakonisches Werk Braunschweig has been the leaseholder of the monastery park since 2005 and is gradually restoring it. In 2013 the site was transferred to the Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz Foundation .

literature

• Brochure Open Monument Day 2002 (PDF)
• Elmar Arnhold, Sándor Kotyrba, Kai-Uwe Grahmann (eds.): Gardens and parks in the Braunschweiger Land . 1st edition. Kotyrba, Braunschweig 2012, ISBN 978-3-942712-19-4 , pp. 48 .

Web links

• Former manor park and nature reserve on kirche-riddagshausen.de (article about the monastery park )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Transfer of the Riddagshausen monastery property. In: youtube.com. 2013, accessed September 19, 2015 . 

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 58.7 "  N , 10 ° 34 ′ 37.8"  E