Lennépark Frankfurt (Oder)
| Lennépark | |
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| In the southern part of the park | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Frankfurt (Oder) |
| Created | 1825-1845 |
| Newly designed | 2000-2007 |
| Surrounding streets |
Halbe Stadt (west and north), Karl-Marx-Strasse, An der alten Universität, Wollenweberstrasse (all to the east), Heilbronner Strasse (south) |
| use | |
| User groups | Foot traffic ; Leisure , events |
| Park design | Lenné, Bueck, Lehmann, Lienau, Mende, Schmeißer, Steinkopf |
| Technical specifications | |
| Parking area | 89,000 m² |
The Lennépark is a green space in Frankfurt (Oder) that was named after its garden architect Peter Joseph Lenné . It is an 8.9 hectare park with an elongated park area of around 900 m in length and around 95 m in width with an artificial waterfall, flowing water, fountain and ponds. The park, designed in the English style, is the second oldest public park in Germany (after Theresienstein ). The Rosa-Luxembourg-road divides the park.
Description and details
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In Lennépark on the Schneckenberg there is an obelisk weighing seventy hundred pounds with a ball on the upper end. The design of the obelisk comes from the sculptor Johannes Boese . The monument was inaugurated in 1886. The obelisk bears the inscription The creators of this complex towards the east, i.e. facing the park . The names of each are on the stones surrounding the obeliskRead Creator . These are P. J. Lenné , J. N. Buek , J. G. Lehmann , M. Lienau , L. Mende , F. R. Schmeißer and H. W. Steinkopf .
On the occasion of the reconstruction of the creator's memorial , the sculptor Jürgen Karnopp had erected a varied wall made of ceramic elements around the memorial. This was dismantled during the renovation of the park in 2011 and a municipal art depot was stored.
history
A 900 m long, 95 m wide and almost 11 m high rampart west of the Frankfurt city wall, built after 1253, had become militarily useless in 1820 and was overgrown by trees and bushes that had grown in the wild. In 1825, influential Frankfurt citizens decided to create access to the city from the west for the first time and to convert the ramparts into a park. The businessman and politician Michael Martin Lienau , together with the pedagogue Friedrich Schmeißer, submitted an application to the city council to cover the construction costs, but this was rejected. As a result, Frankfurt citizens collected donations that generated 541 thalers . This paid for a new path through the ramparts, a small bridge over the city moat and a lockable gate in the city wall between 1825 and 1827. In 1832 the city council of Frankfurt decided to cut down all the trees, level the area and let private individuals do the rest of the design. A second collection, initiated by Martin Michael Lienau, raised 889 thalers. The university professor Friedrich Schmeißer bought an oak for two talers and thus protected it from being cut down. It is now (as of 2018) the oldest tree in existence.
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Lienau wrote to his friend, landscape architect Peter Joseph Lenné in Potsdam and asked for help with the design. Lenné visited Frankfurt on February 22, 1835, and his situation plan arrived on March 16, 1835. A few days later, the planting plan followed, which provided for 250 trees and bushes. On January 30, 1836, the Frankfurt councilors decided to redesign the ramparts according to Lenné's designs, under the direction of Schmeißer. 56 workers then moved 1,700,000 carts of earth. Strongly flowing spring water and the maintenance of the Lohmühle at the end of the moat caused problems. A pumping station should therefore convey the required amounts of water over the protective dam. A further 3,631,200 carts of earth were moved for the new pond and ditch systems. Due to lack of money, the work had to be interrupted in June 1837. Whenever new money was available, construction continued. With further donations from Frankfurt citizens, a road connection to the city could be created by 1842. In 1842, workers incited by Lohmüller destroyed the dam. Those who worked in the trench were only able to save themselves with great difficulty. Thereupon Friedrich Schmeißer resigned from office. In 1843 the Royal Ministry of Finance approved 4,000 thalers to continue the work. Peter Joseph Lenné came back to the city and confirmed that the design was being carried out in his interest. With the planting of the facility in 1845, the work was completed.
The swan bridge in Lennépark was originally made of wood. This had to be demolished in 1862 and was replaced by a brick bridge. In the 21st century, this bridge is one of the oldest bridges in Brandenburg under monument protection.
On September 14, 1949, a memorial to the victims of fascism was erected at the southern entrance to Lenné Park . After a new memorial was erected on May 8, 1986 at the corner of Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse and Wieckestrasse , the memorial was dismantled in the same year.
In the 1960s and 1970s, the historical buildings that border it, including the last remains of the city wall, were demolished. A low brick wall marks part of the course (see picture).
The park has been a listed building since November 18, 1976 .
The redesign of the Lennépark was part of the ZiS City Center funding program created in 2000 . In 2007, the renovation of the southern entrance area, the Schwanenbrücke and the adjacent retaining wall was completed.
Trees
The stock includes over 50 tree species (as of 1998), including
- Silver poplar , height 10 m, circumference 5.62 m (most powerful tree)
- Ancient sequoia , height 10 m, circumference 0.55 m
- Pedunculate oak , height 15 m, circumference 3.56 m (oldest tree, over 200 years)
- Three-thorn leather hull tree , height 15 m, circumference 1.08 m
- Tulip magnolia , height 5 m, girth 0.39 m
- Fan-leaf tree , height 15 m, circumference 1.44 m
More represented tree species are hanging ash (Fraxinus excelsior "Pendula") Sommerlinde even Moreton Bay lime (Tilia grandifolia) called holly (Ilex aquifolium), elm (Ulmus laevis), yew (Taxus baccata "adpressa"), medlar (Mespilus germanica) , elm (Ulmus glabra), Caucasian wingnut (Pterocarya fraxinifolia), honey locust called (Gleditsia triacanthos), also Honeylocust or False Christ mandrel, hornbeam (Carpinus betulus) laciniate beech (Fagus sylvatica "Laciniata"), Cornus (Cornus mas), copper beech (Fagus sylvatica "Atropunicea"), silver maple (Acer saccharinum) Stechfichte (Picea pungens), antler tree (Gymnocladus dioicus), North American hackberry (Celtis occidentalis), maple (Acer platanoides), white mulberry (Morus alba), hornbeam (Carpinus betulus ), European larch (Larix decidua), common plane tree (Platanus x acerifolia) and Turkey oak (Quercus cerris).
literature
- Frankfurt (Oder) The Lennépark . Leaflet. Editor: ABM-Projektgruppe Tourismus Frankfurt (Oder). Without year (found 2008).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Creator's Monument in the Park ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jörg Kotterba: Lenné's great-great-nephew came to the inauguration - MOZ.de. In: moz.de. September 26, 2011, accessed March 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Bernhard Klemm: Frankfurt Monument History - told based on the fate of individual monuments . In: Messages of the historical association to Frankfurt (Oder) e. V. , 1997, issue 1, p. 12.
- ↑ Restoration of the Creator's Monument. In: Sozialestadt.frankfurt-oder.de. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Sonja Jenning: Stored and almost forgotten on ww.moz.de, June 14, 2017; accessed on October 5, 2018.
- ↑ Jürgen Kleeber in Zentrum , July 2006, pp. 8–9.
- ↑ Bernhard Klemm: Frankfurt Monument History - told based on the fate of individual monuments . In: Messages of the historical association to Frankfurt (Oder) e. V. , 1997, issue 1, p. 19
- ↑ Märkische Oderzeitung / Frankfurter Stadtbote , August 17, 2005, p. 16
- ↑ The tree population in Frankfurt's Lennépark . In: BlickPunkt , July 31, 2010, p. 14
Coordinates: 52 ° 20 '46.3 " N , 14 ° 32' 53.7" E