Levin Park

The Levinsche Park is a park in the western city in Göttingen m² with a size of 35,800. It is a legacy of the wool weaving mill in Göttingen . Today it is a green and water area on the edge of the Göttingen industrial area and stands out for its abundance of birds, including a colony of gray herons .

Big pond in Levin's Park. The path in the foreground lies on the dam that separates the pond from the Grone; behind the railing is the inlet

Heron colony

Small pond in Levin's Park, in the background the manufacturer's villa.

playground

history

From 1712 to 1846 the site belonged to the Camlotten-und Drogetten-Fabrique , a manufacture of Johann Heinrich Grätzel. After its bankruptcy, the site was taken over by Albert Hermann Levin, who already ran a wool factory in Rosdorf . In order to operate the mechanical looms, the Grone was dammed in 1873 and a larger pond was created.

Around 1880, the factory owner's son had a garden built around the pond, which was also intended to serve as a break area for the workers. A small bathhouse was also set up by the pond in 1897 (Levinstrasse 8; used as a restaurant in 2017). The factory closed in 1929.

From 1934 an airfield was set up west of Göttingen, and the park area was also used by the military. Most of the park was used by the Air Force Office staff as a recreation and leisure area.

After the Second World War, the airfield was closed and the park was converted into an urban green area in 1959. Levinsche Park has been owned by the city of Göttingen since 1961. In 1978 a large playground was created.

Levinsche Park has been a listed building since 1982 ; together with two manufacturers' villas and former buildings of the Levinsche spinning mill, it forms a protected group of structures .

description

The park is traversed on its west side by the Grone, which is dammed about halfway through the park; The Flötegraben (partially piped in the industrial area) flows into the stream below the weir . Some of the water is diverted and flows into the large pond with an island in the middle. Gray herons nest on this and on old trees on the southern edge of the pond. Sturgeons live in the pond and were used by anglers in 2005. However, there is no increase. The large pond has two drains, one into the Grone below the weir and the other into the small pond at the north end of the park. There is a playground in the southeast corner. At the north-western entrance to the park is a ginkgo that has been designated a natural monument .

Web links

Commons : Levinscher Park Göttingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Levinsche Park , article in the Göttinger Tageblatt
• History of the Levin Park
• Factory workers , report from the Göttingen history workshop

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Levinsche Park - Information from the City of Göttingen, accessed on March 8, 2017
2. ^ Martin Holzmann: Aircraft Office and Air Base . In: The strict form. On the history of the military buildings in Göttingen . Interest group "Garrison City Göttingen eV", Göttingen 1992, ISBN 3-88452-761-4 , p. 39 .
3. ↑ Ilse Röttgerodt-Riechmann: City of Göttingen (= Christiane Segers-Glocke [Hrsg.]: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony . Volume 5.1 ). Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig 1982, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , pp. 73 .
4. ↑ Störe im Levinschen Park in Göttingen, Göttinger Tageblatt , accessed on March 10, 2017

Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 40.2 "  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 32"  E