Lenné plant

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The Lenné complex with the Gellert monument, 2015

The Lenné-Anlage (also Schillerpark ) is a historical park on the inner city ring of Leipzig . The name refers to its planning by the Prussian garden artist Peter Joseph Lenné (1789–1866).

Location and shape

The Lenné complex arches around the southeast part of the city center. It is bounded in the north by Schillerstrasse, Moritzbastei and Gewandhaus , in the east and south by Roßplatz and in the west by the pedestrian area around the entrance to the Wilhelm-Leuschner-Platz S-Bahn station . The park covers an area of ​​3.3 hectares, its longest extension is 390 meters.

The park is deepened like a trough in the west and rises to the east to the heaped promenade hill. Its paths are curved, and it is crossed by Universitätsstrasse and Neumarkt, which has been extended as a pedestrian area. A central meadow is framed by staggered groups of trees, some of which are still from the time the complex was built.

history

Area around the Moritzbastei, the later Lenné complex in 1784

After the Seven Years' War , the dismantling of the city fortifications began in Leipzig and green areas and promenades were created around the city center , including in the area around the Moritzbastei, which had been spared from dismantling. The city ​​moat , though partly dry, was still there for long stretches.

Having already the end of the 18th century, the northeastern part of the Promenade ring with Schneckenberg and Swan Lake by the building director Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe (1746-1816) Gardenlike was designed by the Council in 1857 commissioned the city's Royal Prussian Garden Director Peter Joseph Lenne with the design of the southeastern part between Augustusplatz and Peterstor .

Lenné designed a kidney-shaped park area in the English style . The moat was largely backfilled, but instead a hollow and a hill were modeled. Between the valley and the hill, the extension of Universitätsstraße could be created as a park crossing at the same level, initially as a park path. A dam was later poured through the hollow area to extend the footpath in Neumarkt. The main visual axis of the park pointed from the promenade hill to the tower of the Pleißenburg .

The confectionery pavilion, 1927–1943 in the northern part of the complex

Lenné had initially planned a stronger involvement of the Roßplatz, but this was not approved by the city. The execution of Lenné's plan in the form described above was the responsibility of his students Gustav Meyer (1816–1877) and Otto Wittenberg (1834–1918), who became gardening director in Leipzig, in 1858/1859 .

For the International Book Art Exhibition in 1927, the round building of the Confectionery Pavilion was built between the Promenade Hill and the Picture Museum (today's location of the Gewandhaus) , which existed until it was destroyed in World War II .

In the 20th century, road extensions were used to remove the sometimes double rows of trees that originally surrounded the park to connect the park to the urban structures. In the 1990s, at least a simple row of trees could be laid out again. The entrance building to the city ​​tunnel , which was built in 2011/2012, is disturbing because it is exactly in the line of sight .

Monuments

The Lenné complex is adorned with five monuments:

  • Robert Schumann -Denkmal : 1875 behind the Moritzbastei erected monument with the portrait medallion by the Austrian sculptor Heinrich Natter (1844 to 1892) is the first monument to the composer worldwide. The monument has been renewed several times.
  • Mayor Koch Monument : The monument to Leipzig Mayor Carl Wilhelm Otto Koch , during whose term of office the park was created, has stood on the promenade hill since 1899 . The bust is by Carl Seffner (1861–1932).

  • Schumann monument

  • Koch Memorial

  • Gellert monument

  • Schiller monument

  • Thaer monument

  • Gellert Monument: The monument to the poet Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715–1769) erected in the park in 1909 is a replica of the original made in 1774 based on a design by the painter and sculptor Adam Friedrich Oeser (1717–1799). The replica was created by Max Lange (1868–1947).
  • Schiller Monument: The design for the 1914 monument for Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) on the extension of Neumarkt was made by the Leipzig sculptor Johannes Hartmann (1869–1952). The symbolic figures of sublimity and tragedy lean against the high column with Schiller's bust.
  • Albrecht Thaer Monument : The monument to the agricultural scientist Albrecht Daniel Thaer (1752–1828) was erected between Schillerstraße and Moritzbastei in 1850, before the design of the Lenné complex, which then reached the monument. The larger than life bronze statue was made by the Dresden sculptor Ernst Rietschel (1804–1861). In 1947 the memorial was removed from this location and then had various installation sites in Leipzig before it returned to its original location in 2011.

literature

  • Petra Mewes, Peter Benecken: Leipzig's Green - A Park and Garden Guide . Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-938543-49-8 , pp. 37/38 .
  • Gina Klank, Gernoth Griebsch: Lexicon of Leipzig street names . Ed .: City Archives Leipzig. 1st edition. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 .

Web links

Commons : Lenné plant  - collection of images

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 12 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 45 ″  E