Lustgarten (Detmold)
In Detmold, Lustgarten is the name given to the site of a former park from the 17th and 18th centuries, which is now the city's largest parking garage. The term became known nationwide through the controversial discussion about building a shopping center here, which ultimately led to a referendum .
location and size
The area of the former park stretched from the border of Schlossplatz in the south to today's Behringstrasse in the north and from Obere Langen Strasse in the east to the Landestheater in the west, so it was outside the city walls at that time. The course of the Werre was diverted and divided the pleasure garden into two almost equal parts. The total size of the French garden was about 2.2 hectares.
history
After the Thirty Years' War ended in 1648, Count Hermann Adolf zur Lippe had the first park built. The reconstructed Detmold city map from 1660 shows the garden outside the fortifications of the castle on its north side. Since there are no pictures of the system, one has to make assumptions. The pleasure garden in Hesse near Wolfenbüttel was laid out around the same time and could correspond to the Detmold garden.
The French baroque gardens of the time of Louis XIV , designed by his garden architect André Le Nôtre , had become very fashionable in Germany. Typical of the architectural style was the symmetrical division into rectangles, squares and ovals and Detmold's city map from 1770, which was redrawn by F. Bette according to old plans, probably shows a realistic picture of the complex. The gardens could be entered from Langen Strasse (formerly Lemgoer Strasse) through a gate bordered by two pillars, which was demolished in 1936.
The course of the Werre was regulated so that it flowed through the center of the facility and turned at right angles at the western end. To the northwest, around 1770 on the banks of the Werre, there was a narrow, English-style park called the Bosquet , which means little wood or grove. Two diagonal avenues led to a round square with the monument to Count Simon August . This was later moved to Friedrichstal and can now be found in the Bad Meinberger Kurpark. Other plans, which were not implemented, provided for the connection of the Schlossplatz with the English garden with a generously designed, wide avenue made up of six rows of trees. In addition, a lush garden should surround the castle, for which they even wanted to fill in the moat. Count Simon August realized that the costs were beyond his means and did not let the plan go ahead.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the pleasure garden increasingly lost its importance when Detmold expanded beyond its city walls. First of all, the Faule Graben , today's Rosental, was filled in and the buildings surrounding the palace square were erected. Around 1825, Prince Leopold II , supported by his mother, Princess Pauline , commissioned plans for a court theater. After only seven months of construction, the curtain of the Hochfürstlich Lippischen Hoftheater rose for the first time on November 8, 1825 . Between 1826 and 1831 the buildings at the Rosental were erected on the grounds of the pleasure garden, a measure that considerably reduced the width of the park. In 1852 the palace garden was built in the south of Detmold and the pleasure garden near the palace was neglected. Between 1893 and 1895, the railway line from Detmold to Altenbeken was built , which cut up the pleasure garden and thus sealed its end. The remainder was used by the princely family as a vegetable garden until 1965 and then sold to the city of Detmold, which built a car park here and later the Lustgarten car park .
Lustgarten shopping center
At the beginning of the 21st century, the city council of Detmold decided to completely redesign the entire area. A large shopping center was to be built, which extends to the intersection of Rosental - Lange Straße. In the course of this, the Werre will also be diverted. The shopping center was to be built to complement today's “Galerie Hornsches Tor” instead of the existing multi-storey car park at Lustgarten.
The supporters of the shopping center were the council groups of the CDU , SPD , FDP and FWG . By contrast, were the Greens and the regional party Detmold Alternative (DA) .
The proponents argued primarily that Detmold is gaining in competitiveness compared to the nearby shopping cities of Paderborn and Bielefeld . The opponents saw in the building an environmental problem in the already busy downtown Detmold. This disagreement led to a referendum.
In the referendum on June 11, 2006, the majority of voters spoke out against the building project. However, since the number of votes against did not make up 20% of all 60,000 eligible voters, the referendum was declared a failure. Every citizen over the age of 16 and permanent residence in Detmold was entitled to vote.
literature
- Sweet princess to the Lippe: parks in Detmold yesterday and today: I. The pleasure garden , in Heimatland Lippe, July 1987. Publisher: Lippischer Heimatbund eV
Web links
- Urban development contract for the preparation and implementation of the "Lustgarten and Hornsches Tor shopping gallery" project
- Lustgarten project: construction plans and visualizations
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sweet Princess to Lippe: Park in Detmold yesterday and today: I. The pleasure garden , in Heimatland Lippe, July 1987. Publisher: Lippischer Heimatbund eV
- ↑ http://www.stadtdetmold.de/3128.0.html ( Memento from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ′ 16.6 " N , 8 ° 52 ′ 51.4" E