Loburg Park

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The Loburger Park is a park in the style of an English garden in Ostbevern .

history

The term Lo-Hus or Lo-Hof ( dialect. Lo like the English low ) means something like 'low, swampy, damp'.

In 1760 the von Nagel family built Loburg Castle . This burned down in 1899. The new palace was built in 1900, and the question of a park appropriate to the new building arose, for which a number of designs were drawn up. Today it is assumed that the plan implemented in 1903 came from Maximilian Friedrich Weyhe . The lord of the castle at Beverförde-Werries at the time is said to have acquired Douglas firs from North America and rhododendrons from the Netherlands. The palace park was 60 hectares in total. The Douglas firs were extracted as valuable pit wood for mining in the Ruhr area and sold at a profit.

After the pit wood was no longer needed, the park became overgrown more and more. The only part that is still architecturally designed is now in the immediate vicinity of the castle. This is followed by a structurally rich and ecologically valuable mixed forest with ponds and a system of moats and ditches . A specialty for the park are the rhododendrons distributed in the forest.

In connection with the Regionale 2004 , the municipality of Ostbevern developed a project entitled “Beveraue Water Route - Loburg Castle Park”. The castle park is to be developed for local tourism . The rhododendrons give the park a special character, especially during the flowering period (April – May). The municipality's traffic office organizes an annual rhododendron day, which is accompanied by guided tours through the park and the castle. The worth seeing Loburger Kreuzweg leads through the complex .

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  • Forest path in the park

  • Rhododendrons

  • Pond in the park

Web links

literature

  • Uli Auffermann: Münsterland: Park landscape between the Ruhr area and the Rheine - 50 tours. Oberhaching 2010, ISBN 978-3-7633-4380-5 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 34.5 ″  N , 7 ° 51 ′ 51.7 ″  E