Reader park

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The passage through the park towards the Rhine, guaranteed by the right of way entry
The controversial pedestrian bridge

The small reader park in Bonn 's Plittersdorf district in Bad Godesberg extends over an area of ​​around 40,000 square meters along the Rhine between the Von-Sandt-Ufer and the new Am Büchel development . In the north of the forest park is the historic Villa Cahn , whose owner, at the turn of the 20th century, was the eponym of the park, the Kleiner family. Originally, the park was considerably more extended to the west, but was greatly reduced in size in the 1980s by the development of apartment houses on today's Am Büchel street. Already at the beginning of the 20th century, the Godesberg municipal administration tried to develop the park towards the Rhine. At that time, however, the juristically versed Higher Regional Court Judge Wilhelm Reader was able to prevent the development plans.

In the mid-1990s, the entrepreneur Frank Asbeck acquired the Villa Cahn and the readers' park from the city of Bonn. The park is not open to public use, but the owner has two rights of way for walkers. In the spring of 2006 Asbeck had 1,400 rhododendron bushes and 9,000 tulips and daffodils planted in the park ; In addition, two playgrounds for children have been created. There was a dispute with the city administration over the fencing of the park. The unauthorized construction of a 39-meter-long pedestrian bridge, which leads from Villa Cahn in a southerly direction over a depression in the park at a height of around four meters , led to a dispute between Asbeck and the responsible building regulations office in 2006. In the opinion of the office, the bridge represented an unnecessary "significant interference with the landscape".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bärbel, Richard and Kai Grebert, Walk through Plittersdorf , Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg eV (Ed.), Martin Ammermüller (Red.), Bonn-Bad Godesberg 2011, p. 3
  2. ↑ The childless builder of the villa, Albert Cahn , had bequeathed the house to his sister Pauline Rikoff, through whose daughter Helene it came into the Reader family
  3. ↑ Silke Elbern, Villa Cahn: Asbeck: The way to the Rhine remains free , April 18, 2006, Bonner General-Anzeiger (registration required)
  4. ↑ No decision on the bridge in the readers' park , May 25, 2006, Bonner General-Anzeiger (registration required)

Web links

Commons : Readers' Park  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 30.9 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 11.7"  E