Bad Cannstatt spa gardens

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Meadow in the Upper Kurpark
Great Kursaal

The spa park in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt was laid out in 1819 and is around 15 hectares today.

description

The spa park in Bad Cannstatt is now divided into two areas. The Lower Kurpark is more geometrically laid out, the axis, on which there is a large lawn today, leads directly to the Kursaal . In the lower spa park there are two playgrounds, a basketball field, fountains and water games. The upper spa park, which is connected to the lower one by a steep slope and the Daimler garden, is designed more close to nature with curved paths. The focal point is a lawn with a pavilion. From the viewing platform you have a view over all of Stuttgart. Between the Upper and Lower Kurpark is the Kursaal with the beer garden behind it with an old music pavilion and a mini golf course. Some of the trees in the spa park are from the 19th century.

development

In 1819 a pavilion with a thatched roof was built over the Wilhelmsquelle, which still feeds the Cannstatt mineral baths today . A double-row promenade avenue was laid out in 1821 as a connection to the Hotel Wilhelmsbad. Today's Lower Kurpark developed from this. This marked the beginning of a spa in Cannstatt, which had its peak in the 1870s, but was only named a spa in 1933, at a time when the number of spa guests was vanishingly small. From 1825, Nikolaus von Thouret designed the Kursaal, which was not completed until 1835 due to a lack of funds. Since King William I . Had contributed the missing funds, Cannstatt erected an equestrian monument in his honor, which initially found its place on Wilhelmsplatz in Cannstatt, but has stood in front of the Kursaal since 1881. After the construction of the Kursaal, the steep slope behind the Kursaal and the plateau above it were expanded into today's Upper Kurpark. The spa park was not finished until 1915, at a time when the number of spa guests in Cannstatt had already fallen drastically.

In 1915 three different style elements shaped the spa park:

  • The avenue in the lower spa park in the classical style
  • The Upper Kurpark in the nature-oriented English style
  • Individual elements in the Lower Kurpark in Art Nouveau style ( Juno fountain , ornamental-geometric flower beds, arcade)
Upper spa park with pagoda
Berthold Auerbach

In memory of Berthold Auerbach (1812–1882), who often stayed in Cannstatt as a spa guest, a linden tree was planted and a memorial was erected in 1909, which, however , was destroyed in the Second World War. Today a marble medallion commemorates him.

In 1907 the Kursaal was expanded to include the Kleiner Kursaal, which today houses a restaurant on the ground floor.

Juno Fountain

Emil Kiemlen donated the Juno Fountain in the Lower Kurpark in 1910 on the occasion of Cannstatt's incorporation into Stuttgart. In 1934 the Lautenschläger fountain was created by Jakob Clement.

In the eastern part of the Upper Spa Garden is the Daimler Tower, which was built from travertine in 1892/93 and raised to a height of 15 m in the 1930s. The listed observation tower can be climbed on the day of the open monument .

The avenue in the Lower Kurpark was redesigned from 1958 to 1961 as a sunbathing area.

In 1974 the former garden of the Daimler villa was integrated into the spa gardens. The Gottlieb Daimler Memorial is now located in the former garden shed. Only a few foundation walls remain of the villa. In the Daimlergarten there is a former shelter for the first motorized tram that went from the Kursaal to Wilhelmsplatz. In the Lower Kurpark there is a bust of Robert Stolz , who was temporarily Kapellmeister in the Kurpark before the First World War.

In 1986 Ingrid Seddig designed the bronze sculpture in the Lower Kurpark to commemorate the expellees .

The pergola in the Lower Kurpark was designed with self-made tiles by students from the Johannes Kepler High School .

  • Wandelhalle in the spa gardens of Bad Cannstatt

  • Bust of Robert Stolz

  • Lower spa park

  • Equestrian portrait of Wilhelm I

  • Daimler Tower

  • Lautenschlägerbrunnen

  • Gottlieb Daimler Memorial

  • Tiles of the students of the Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Hagel: Cannstatt and its history . Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-87407-529-X , p. 145 f .
  2. ↑ Jürgen Hagel: Cannstatt and its history . Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-87407-529-X , p. 152 .
  3. ↑ a b Manfred Schmid: 250,000 years of Cannstatter history . Ed .: Stuttgart City Archives. Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-608-91579-6 , pp. 96 .
  4. ↑ Manfred Schmid: 250,000 years of Cannstatt history . Ed .: Stuttgart City Archives. Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-608-91579-6 , pp. 89 .
  5. ↑ Daimler Tower in Bad Cannstatt in stuttgarter-zeitung.de from August 18, 2015, accessed on December 31, 2015
  6. ^ Robert Stolz memorial plaque on the website of the state capital Stuttgart
  7. ↑ Bad Cannstatt spa gardens. City of Stuttgart, accessed on June 2, 2015 .

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