Luitpoldpark (Ingolstadt)

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The Luitpoldpark in Ingolstadt is a park that extends over a length of about 700 m between the Danube and the Haunwöhr district in the Brückenkopf sub-district .

The area amounts to around 20 hectares, with the park in the east flowing over into the facilities at the bridgehead. Towards the west it takes on an increasingly forest character, which can be seen, for example, in the unpaved paths and paths.

The Luitpoldpark is part of the green belt, the glacis , that surrounds the old town of Ingolstadt. It is divided by Luitpoldstrasse and the driveway to the Glacis Bridge .

Path in Luitpoldpark

history

Remnants of the Gumppenberg Front

The emergence of the Luitpoldpark can be seen in the context of a larger development of a large number of public and community parks in Germany in the 19th century. In the case of Luitpoldpark, too, the origins can be found at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. As part of an order from a beautification association , the Ingolstadt architect and artist Wilhelm Donaubauer began planning and designing the landscape.

The park was named after the then Bavarian Prince Regent Luitpold , after whom a number of other parks in Bavaria are named. The name for the park in Ingolstadt first appeared in the Ingolstädter Zeitung in 1911. It was finally created west of the bridgehead around the fortifications of the Gumppenberg front with tower 5 ( red tower ). In 1925 a café and a pavilion for concerts were built in the park, which were a popular excursion destination for the “Schanzer”.

During the Second World War , parts of the park were destroyed by the air raids on Ingolstadt in March 1945. The route of the Ingolstadt – Neuoffingen railway line , the actual target of the attacks, ran south past Luitpoldpark. The bandstand and park café were in ruins, the Red Tower and the Gumppenberg Front were blown up or removed in 1946.

After the war, an allotment garden was built in the south of the park. In 1998, with the construction of a third Danube bridge in Ingolstadt, another change in Luitpoldpark took place. The route was routed through the park with the bridge approach and has been dividing it since then, although a green bridge was created as a connecting element. With the relocation of the nearby railway line in 1994/95, residential buildings were built; the recreational character of Luitpoldpark ensures an increased quality of living here.

Reminder and memorial

The memorial for the victims of National Socialism with the pedestal of the nail column in the background
The lions of the Brigade Monument

As early as the 1920s, a war memorial was erected below the music pavilion in Luitpoldpark . Other monuments followed after the Second World War, such as the memorial stone "The Dead of the German East 1945" erected in 1968 or the memorial that was added as part of Ingolstadt's sponsorship for the Sudeten German home district of Niemes.

The construction of the Glacis Bridge also had an impact on the monuments in the park, as the war memorial was exactly on the planned route. In 1998, at the same time as the original facility was removed, it was redesigned and redesigned by the visual artist Dagmar Pachtner from Neustadt an der Aisch . Parts of the old memorial were still used.

The memorial area today consists of the following elements:

  • the memorial for the victims of National Socialism , which consists of nine blue steles with photographs of victims of National Socialism in Ingolstadt, with additional steles throughout the city. Part of the memorial is also a room in the city museum of Ingolstadt ;
  • the memorial for the fallen soldiers of the First and Second World War in the form of twenty lying stones that were already part of the old memorial. In addition to the various battalions and regiments involved in the two wars, a stone was also added as part of the redesign for the Jewish soldiers of the First World War who were murdered during the Nazi era;
  • the memorial stones for the expellees from Niemes;
  • the seat and memorial wall, which is made of stones from the old monument;
  • the two lions of the brigade monument on the former cavalier Spreti, which was torn down in 1963 as the only one of the six cavaliers of the former national fortress;
  • the pedestal of a war memorial column, a nail column ;
  • a bronze artillery memorial.

Further memorial opportunities can be found at the Nordfriedhof and at the Reduit Tilly .

Sports and recreational opportunities, natural space

Gravel road with a "wild" avenue in the park

In Luitpoldpark there is a children's playground and table tennis tables as well as a soccer field. The lively and partly treeless terrain in the middle of the park offers tobogganing in winter. In addition, part of the route of the Ingolstadt half marathon , which takes place annually in May , as well as the Danube cycle path lead through the Luitpold Park.

In addition to the well-tended areas in the east of the park, relatively natural undisturbed habitats with old trees of beech , linden and maple have developed, especially in the west . In addition, the park has become a habitat for many species of mammals, such as dormice , ermines and squirrels and birds such as the woodpecker . A biotope adventure path that leads through the park provides information on the existing animal and plant species in the form of wooden boards.

The Luitpoldpark serves as an urban link between the alluvial forest areas in the west and east on the Danube (the Schüttl ). It is part of the Ingolstadt inner green belt, the former fortifications and the glacis . As a small green area, it is a traffic route for cyclists and pedestrians, serves as a local recreation area, as a green lung that connects to the barrage and the quarry in the west and to the city and the state horticultural show grounds in the east. A few allotments, the green bridge and the Farntal complete the area.

literature

  • Gerd A. Hits: Sightseeing flight over old Ingolstadt. Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2000, ISBN 3-86134-960-4 .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 45 ′ 14 "  N , 11 ° 25 ′ 29"  E