Malente Spa Park

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The Malente spa park was built in 1962 on an area of ​​5.6 hectares on the Brahmberg and the neighboring Schwentinewiese in Malente's center. The spa park was designed by the Hamburg garden architect Karl Plomin and the Ostholstein architect Peter Arp . A combination of modern architecture and targeted planting resulted. The main distinguishing feature of the Malente spa park is that it was not remodeled like other Plomins gardens, but has been preserved in its original form. The special use of plants and the concise horticultural design of Plomins can thus be experienced in the spa gardens.

Entrance to the Kurhaus

Recreational facilities

Events take place regularly in the spa park, for which the house of the spa guest, the open-air theater with 600 seats, the music shell and the lounge hall are used. There are also chess fields, a Kneipp pool, a boules court and chimney houses in the spa gardens. There are also guided tours through the spa gardens.

history

In 1955, Malente was named a Kneipp spa and had to show a spa park for recognition. The centrally located Brahmberg, which has been popular as a resort for decades, was chosen as the ideal location for it, along with the adjacent Müllerwiese (Schwentinewiese). The garden architect Karl Plomin (known from the 1st Federal Garden Show 1951 in Hanover, International Garden Show Planten un Blomen in Hamburg 1953) was commissioned by the municipality to plan the spa gardens in 1958.

In the years 1962 to 1964, eight circular ponds were laid out on the Schwentinewiese and a wooden walkway was built over the wet meadow. Bald cypresses, Judas leaf trees and wingnut trees were planted as characteristic trees. Three sun terraces were created on the meadow promenade, which are surrounded by lush vegetation. This is where Plomin's art of creating colorful woody and perennial structures appropriate to the location, with great knowledge of plants, was shown.

The Brahmberg was designed in the following years from 1964 to 1969. Together with the already renowned architect Peter Arp, the high-rise structures of the reclining hall, music pavilion and house of the spa guest were integrated into the hilly terrain in a seemingly floating manner. The multi-stemmed beeches in particular were included in the concept. In 1969 the house of the spa guest was inaugurated as the last construction project.

On the Brahmberg site, Karl Plomin realized his ideal of the combination of plants under the existing beech and oak trees. 2500 rhododendrons were planted alongside magnolias and dogwoods. The woods were supplemented with forest shrubs and overgrown onion plants.

The 5.6 hectare spa park, which after completion was praised as one of the most beautiful parks in northern Germany, suffered a serious loss in 1986: 25 of the multi-stemmed groups of beeches in the area of ​​Brahmberg and the neighboring stone bush had to be felled for traffic safety and were replaced by rapidly growing maples and American oak replaced. This changed the atmosphere of the spa park significantly. After the ramshackle wooden walkways had been torn down, the large bamboo stocks in the meadow area had died off and the high-rise buildings gradually fell into disrepair, the spa gardens reached their lowest point at the end of the second millennium.

Redevelopment

Through the initiative of garden monument keepers and committed citizens of Malent, the value of the spa park has been increasingly emphasized since 2003.

From 2006 onwards, extensive renovation and measures to increase the attractiveness were carried out after the landscape architecture firm Siller had drawn up a comprehensive conceptual report. The Kiel architects Krug & Schwinghammer supervised the renovation of the buildings.

On April 26, 2008 the spa park was officially reopened.

Donations are being collected for the renovation of the crumbling footbridges in the Schwentinewiese. The initiators for this are the Friends of the Kurpark Malente eV


  • Schwentinewiese

  • Shield sheet

  • Chess game

  • Boules alley

  • Fairground

literature

  • Eva von Engelberg-Dočkal: Modern architecture in Malente - The spa gardens by Peter Arp. In: Monument. Journal for Monument Preservation in Schleswig-Holstein. 11/2004, ISSN  0946-4549 , pp. 58-64.
  • Margita Marion Meyer: New shrub beds for the sun terraces in the Bad Malente spa gardens. In: Monument. Journal for Monument Preservation in Schleswig-Holstein. 14/2007, ISSN  0946-4549 , p. 118.
  • Margita Marion Meyer, Julia Freese: Renovation of the Malenter Kurpark. In: Monument. Journal for Monument Preservation in Schleswig-Holstein. 16/2009, ISSN  0946-4549 , pp. 81-86.

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Coordinates: 54 ° 10 ′ 2 ″  N , 10 ° 33 ′ 11.9 ″  E