Lantz'scher Park

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Gatehouse at the park entrance (2006)
Plant as English garden , view from the west to the mansion (2006)
Burial chapel, built 1878–1879 (2020)
Fritz von Wille : Chapel in Lantz'schen Park, painting from 1885
Perseus with the head of Medusa, Ludwig Vordermayer, 1900 (2020)
South of the mansion the sculpture of a grand vizier (2020)

The Lantzsche Park is a 14.5 hectare park in Düsseldorf district Lohausen .

history

In 1804 Heinrich Balthasar Lantz (1762–1828) acquired the knightly seat Lohausen from Ferdinand Freiherr von Calcum called Lohausen. Lantz was a merchant who had become wealthy with trade in the colonies. The mansion of the Lantz family was probably built between 1805 and 1806 on the foundations of the old moated castle. 1878–1879 the Lantz family's burial chapel was built in the center of the park. The chapel was built by Heinrich Victor Lantz in memory of his wife Mathilde Lantz (1834–1878), born Ulrich from Bredelar, who died at the age of 44.

The park was created in three time periods. The middle part emerged from an old forest parcel that was already entered on a map from 1702 (“ Siege of Kaiserswerth ” 1702, lithograph by Bouffard, from: Lamigue, Histoire du Prince d'Orange et de Nassau, Leeuwarden 1715, copperplate engraving , Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, inventory IV 284).

The park in the front area around the manor house was created according to a plan by Joseph Clemens Weyhe from 1858 in the style of the English landscape garden . On the lawn near the manor house is one of two weathered ornamental sandstone vases whose origin is unknown. It is assumed that these could come from the first courtyard garden. On the plan of the old court garden in Düsseldorf from 1775 by court architect Johann Caspar Nosthofen, two such vases are drawn behind the court gardener's house (B) . The second jewelry vase was knocked over by vandals in 2010, whose passament is on the lawn on the south side of the villa.

Portrait busts of regents from all countries were placed in a group near the mansion. A Turkish grand vizier made of hard lead cast stands today in the meadow on the south side of the manor house. Isolated plinths, without figures, are located on the park area. A bust of Maria Theresa was stored in the garden office.

The rear part of the park around the chapel was planned by Julius Bouché in 1880 in the style of historicism . The idea of ​​a dominant axis with rows of double trees on both sides, the avenue of linden trees in the rear part of the park and a circular path through the park came from his planning.

It is not known since when the replica of " Perseus with the head of Medusa ", made by the sculptor Ludwig Vordermayer in 1900, has been in Lantz'schen Park.

At the end of the Second World War , in 1944, a command and message bunker for Gauleiter and Reich Defense Commissioner Friedrich Karl Florian was built at the Heiligenweg park entrance, the entrance from Stockum . In January 1945 General of the Waffen-SS Karl Gutenberger had his quarters here. Parts of the bunker are still there today. In 1945 the park, especially the Bouché part, was badly affected by artillery fire and the tree population was also severely decimated by the use of firewood.

The Lantz family lived in the facility for five generations. After the death of the unmarried Uhlan Rittmeister Ludwig Lantz (1885–1969), the entire property passed into the hands of Benedikta Dyckman, niece of the deceased. They sold the property and park together with the surrounding land in June 1972 to the city of Düsseldorf with the stipulation that the park would be maintained for over 100 years and that it would be kept open to the public. The A 44 motorway, an allotment garden, and sports facilities were built on former estate areas adjacent to the park. 1974–1978 a partial renovation of the park took place on the basis of the park maintenance work of Franz Joseph Greub. The park has been open to the public since 1978 and has been protected as a horticultural cultural asset by the Lower Monument Authority since 1982.

Lantz's mansion

The gallery owner Alfred Schmela (1918–1980) moved into the late Classicist mansion in 1979 and set up a sculpture park . The sculptor and object artist Meuser followed as tenant until 2008. In 2009 there were still four modern works of art in the park. In 2018, after ten years of vacancy, the mansion went to the textile company of the Pongs Group, who set up their sales and creative department with a showroom there. The house was extensively renovated and so the inscription “pax intrantibus” (peace to those who enter) is emblazoned in gold letters on the main facade.

  • Herrenhaus entrance portal, east side (2020)

  • Mansion entrance portal with "Silly Box" by Meuser (2020)

  • Manor house north side (2020)

  • Mansion West Side (2020)

  • Manor house south side (2020)

Sculpture park

In September 2019, the Lohausen sculptor Peter Schwickerath erected and exhibited a steel sculpture for the opening of the villa . This happened on the initiative of the director of the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Gregor Jansen , and so the idea and continuation of an international sculpture park was presented to the "Kunstkommission Düsseldorf" at the end of 2019. The classically installed works, some of which have been redesigned for the park, are supplemented by a weekly action program in July and August 2020. The open concept is based on sculptures and actions that temporarily enable a special experience of nature and culture in the park in dialogue with nature and people.

International Sculpture Park 2020

  • 2020: International Lantz'scher Sculpture Park Lohausen

  • Julia Bünnagel and Patrick Rieve: "THE PARK IS MINE", 2009–2020 (wood and lacquer)

  • Gesine Grundmann: "Stammheimer Chain", 2017 (oak wood)

  • Rita McBride : "Mae West Conical Shapes Template", 2007 (plasma-cut Corten steel)

  • Martin Pfeifle: "Orbis", kinetic objet, 2020 (painted aluminum rods)

  • Bogomir Ecker : "vedere", 2001

  • Christian Odzuck : "I don't want to ruin your willpower", 2020 (mixed media with the park's jewelry vase)

and Peter Schwickerath: "Three-part vertical", 2014

literature

  • Beißner: Excursion to Lohausen. In: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologische Gesellschaft , No. 13 (1904), pp. 131f. (Annual meeting, excursions)
  • Guntram Fischer : Lohausen and Stockum. History and stories. (Ed. by the Heimat- und Bürger-Verein Düsseldorf-Lohausen eV) Düsseldorf 1989.
  • Franz Joseph Greub: Restoration of Park Lantz, Düsseldorf-Lohausen. Explanatory report on basic research. As a motivation and basis for the restoration. Düsseldorf 1977. (Copy from the garden department of the city of Düsseldorf; copy in the city archive of Düsseldorf, signature XXII L 36)
  • Franz Joseph Greub: Report on the restoration work on a park from the 2nd half of the last century. In: Vroni Heinrich, Gerd Peschken (Ed.): Gustav Meyer on the 100th anniversary of his death (May 27, 1977). The lectures of the commemorative event of the Institute for Landscape and Open Space Planning of the Technical University of Berlin, the Faculty of Land Care and Horticulture of the Technical University of Berlin and the Library of German Horticulture eV Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-79830614-1 .
  • Franz Joseph Greub, Jutta Schmidt-Heckscher: The Lantz Park to Lohausen. To be handed over to the citizens on September 10, 1978. In: Mitteilungsblatt des Heimat- und Bürger-Verein Düsseldorf-Lohausen , special edition 1978.
  • Franz Joseph Greub: Green Lungs, “Plush” Park Lantz in Lohausen. In: Das Tor , Volume 45, 1979, Issue 8, pp. 159–163.
  • August Kugelmeier: Small parish chronicle of Düsseldorf-Lohausen. Düsseldorf-Lohausen 1953. (as a PDF file at www.flughafen-forum.de )
  • Park and house Lantz in Lohausen. In: Das Tor , 40th year 1974, pp. 124–126.
  • Susanne Weisser: Lantz'scher Park Düsseldorf-Lohausen. Park maintenance. 2009.

Web links

Commons : Lantz'scher Park  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marble plaque in the chapel: “This chapel in honor of God and in memory of the one born on January 1st, 1834, and died on May 25th, 1878. Mrs. Mathilde Lantz, b. Ulrich von Bredelar, built by his husband Heinrich Victor Lantz, who was badly affected by this loss, at the Lohausen house, together with his two children Theodor and Isabella. The dear transfigured woman lived as a true model of a simple, active, faithful wife and mother, and later generations should always remember her when visiting this little church, as a pearl of her sex and an ornament of the family. RIP "
  2. ↑ Meuser: Dumme Kiste (2002), steel, oil paint. Location: Lohausen, Lantzscher Park. , on SkulpTour Düsseldorf, accessed on July 6, 2020
  3. ^ Website of the Art Commission
  4. ↑ http://www.lantzscherskulpturenpark.de/ accessed on July 13, 2020

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 19 ″  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 6 ″  E