Maßmannpark
The Maßmannpark is a 2.3 hectare park in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich . It extends around a 5 m high step, which was historically known as Neuhauserberg and is known today as Maßmannbergl . The terrain level is part of the western high bank of the Isar valley and the northernmost place where this can be seen in the urban area.
It is located between Hessstrasse, Schleissheimerstrasse and Maßmannstrasse.
history
Today's park is outside the historic city walls of Munich, formerly on the border between the Munich truce and in the area of the formerly independent Neuhausen . In 1260 a Konradshof is mentioned for the first time, which is located in the vicinity of today's park. Until the secularization of 1803 it was owned by the Schäftlarn monastery and leased to Munich citizens for management purposes.
Wiesenfeld country estate
On the edge of the slope, the electoral chamberlain Dominikus Schwaiger built a country estate with the name Wiesenfeld around 1790 , from which the field names Oberwiesenfeld are derived. The economy building was above, the plantations protected from the wind below the step. The farm mainly grew fruit and vegetables, keeping cows only played a minor role.
In 1796 the seat was destroyed by French soldiers, but immediately rebuilt.
Gymnasium
In 1828 Hans Ferdinand Maßmann built a public gymnasium on the site . Maßmann was a student of the gymnastics father Jahn and was brought to Munich in 1826 by King Ludwig I and at the suggestion of Friedrich Thiersch to lead the athletic training of the cadet corps . As a supplement to the training of the military, he also suggested a gymnasium for schoolchildren and students and convinced the Ministry of the Interior of its usefulness.
Maßmann built masts, ladders, ropes and other opportunities for climbing and shackling on the site according to the ideas of the time. There was also a race track, an open space for wrestling, as well as running and jumping tracks. The gymnasium was initially only available to the two former grammar schools in Munich and the university, but individual external users were also allowed, three Greeks in the first year. A gymnasium was added in 1837, the area was fenced in and a guard was hired to move into an official apartment on the square. In addition to his gymnastics activities, Maßmann became a professor for older German language and literature at the University of Munich in 1829 and also gave lectures on the "history of physical exercise [...] as part of the history of German morality".
At the Bavarian schools, gymnastics came slowly and unsystematically. Up until the 1850s, however, almost all schools had a simple place for physical exercise. From 1861 gymnastics became a compulsory subject at Bavarian grammar schools, but it was not until 1866 that the regular training of gymnastics teachers for Bavarian schools began. In 1868 this training moved to the royal public gymnastics institute, before an initially independent central gymnastics teacher training institute was set up at the university in Ludwigstrasse in 1872 . In 1900 a new gymnasium was built on Wiesenfeld for the public gymnasium and teacher training and in 1908 both facilities were merged. During the First World War , the old gymnasium was occupied by soldiers and used until 1919. During the war, operations only continued to a very limited extent. The gymnasium was rebuilt in 1930/31, and since 1926 the training of sports and gym teachers has been alongside the training of doctors and school inspectors in questions of institutional sports, scientific research and the supervision of gym classes at all state, municipal and private schools as well as at penal institutions.
The memorial for Hans Maßmann was erected in 1876, the year he died, and the inscription was added in 1928 for the 100th anniversary of the gymnastics facility. Since then, the stone has carried the gymnast's cross made up of four symmetrically arranged letters “F” for the gymnasts' motto “ Fresh, pious, happy, free ”.
The Maßmannpark
In the air war of World War II , the gyms were destroyed and not rebuilt; therefore the city decided to create a park in the free area. In 1948 the student dormitory housing estate Maßmannplatz was built in the northeast of the park on Heßstrasse. At the beginning of 2009 the park and the playground equipment were restored. Since then there has also been a skate park on the square . In winter, small children make their first toboggan attempts on the “Maßmannbergl”.
literature
- Gertrude Kromholz: The development of school sports and sports teacher training in Bavaria from the beginning to the end of the Second World War . New series of publications by the Munich City Archives - Volume 108, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-87821-182-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerhard Ongyerth: Munich Mountain Guide . Franz Schiermeier Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-943866-32-2 , p. 92
- ^ Elisabeth Angermeier: The Oberwiesenfeld . Exhibition catalog of the Munich City Archives, 1994, pp. 5–9
- ↑ Kromholz 1982, p. 57 ff.
- ↑ Kromholz 1982, pp. 72-74
- ↑ Kromholz 1982, p. 76
- ↑ Kromholz 1982, pp. 17, 37
- ↑ Kromholz 1982, p. 111
- ↑ Kromholz 1982, p. 206
- ↑ Kromholz 1982, p. 212
- ↑ Kromholz 1982, p. 218
- ↑ Kromholz 1982, p. 398
- ↑ http://www.muenchen.de/sehenswuerdheiten/orte/120265.html
- ↑ http://www.architekturwoche.org/muenchen/freitag-23-mai/detail/?tx_slubevents_eventlist%5Bevent%5D=67&tx_slubevents_eventlist%5Baction%5D=show
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 9 ″ N , 11 ° 33 ′ 34.1 ″ E