Maille (Esslingen am Neckar)
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The Maille is a park in the city center of Esslingen am Neckar .
history
The name of the park, which can be traced back to the middle of the 18th century, suggests that the flat terrain between the Ross and Wehr Neckar canals may have been used for the Paille-Maille game popular in the 17th century . In addition, the facility was always used as a community property . On a map of Esslingen by Tobias Mayer from 1739, a network of paths and an avenue on the Maille are already marked . In the years 1751 and 1752 chestnuts, linden and nut trees were systematically planted along the paths and around 1900 an avenue of plane trees was laid out.
In 1828 the afternoon celebration of the second Swabian song and song festival took place on the Maille, which was held in Esslingen on Whit Monday until 1832. After the establishment of a gymnastics club in Esslingen in 1845, a corner of the Maille was opened for gymnastics in 1847.
A monument to Karl Pfaff dates from 1868 and was erected near the Inner Bridge. The bronze bust on a sandstone base was created by Ernst Rau . Another monument was erected in 1895 in honor of Theodor Georgiis .
Location and surroundings
The Maille is located on an island formed by the Neckar canals Rossneckar and Wehrneckar, into which the Hammer Canal divides behind the Schäferwehr. It is cut through at its southeast end by the Vogelsang Bridge and crossed at the northwest end by the Inner Bridge. The adjacent streets are the Ritterstraße on the other side of the Rossneckar in the northeast and the Wehrneckarstraße on the other side of the Wehrneckar in the southwest. Seen from the park beyond the Vogelsang Bridge is the Lorch site, a historic factory site that also belongs to the Maille.
Building on the Lorch site
The buildings on the former Lorch site are now used as a cultural center. House no. 3 is a former twist mill that a clothing maker named Hartter built in 1758 on the walls of a previous company from the 17th century. The two-storey, plastered half-timbered building cantilevers towards the Rossneckar on iron supports. In 1804 at the latest, this twist mill became the property of the Hardtmann family. However, the building was sold to the confectioner Christoph Friedrich Berckhemer in 1836. Berckhemer's business passed into the hands of the businessman Wilhelm Geißler, who in 1874 established a mustard and cucumber factory with a mustard mill in a single-storey extension. The Hardtmann family of cloth makers, however, acquired a neighboring fulling mill belonging to the cloth guild in 1822, which had existed since at least 1650. A building that the family erected instead of this fulling mill has not survived, apart from a few remains. Only an outer wall and the water wheel system, which was renewed in the early 20th century, still exists. In 1826, the cloth factory Johann Gottfried Steudels, founded in 1811 on the Maille, was purchased; Since 1823 there was also a sheep's wool spinning mill that belonged to Christian Ludwig Hübler and was taken over by Georg Christian Kessler in 1826 . He immediately sold it to the Hardtmann brothers, who had it demolished that same year and built the building complex that still exists today. This included a four-story cotton wool spinning mill, which today has the address Maille 4, and to the south-east of it a cloth shearing mill and a dye works with office and magazine and a drying house. These buildings have the address Maille 5 today. Around the middle of the 19th century, a boiler house was built on the site as part of the conversion from water to steam power.
The Hardtmann cloth factory went bankrupt in 1870 . Their buildings were taken over by the Bender & Faber cloth factory and most of them were sold in 1903 to Hermann Bauer, the owner of the Lorch AG machine factory. Bauer had house no. 4 converted into an Art Nouveau residential building . At that time, this building with its high gateway was still in the axis of the main avenue of the Maille. It has a three-axis central riser , which is indicated by Doric pilasters . In the course of the renovation, a previously inserted mezzanine was removed in order to be able to raise the windows and rooms on the first floor. On the second floor, Bauer's apartment, a wrought-iron balcony was installed over the gate passage. The passage itself was decorated with Art Nouveau doors and four landscape paintings by the decorative and room painter Eugen Braun in stucco frames. Braun copied well-known views of Gottlob Friedrich Steinkopf and Robert Stieler , which show the Rotenberg , Hohenzollern Castle , Lichtenstein and Hohenstaufen . The passage also has stucco decorations on the ceiling and a wrought iron gate. The original doors, railings, paneling and wallpaper have been preserved in the stairwell.
The buildings on the Lorch site were included in the monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany because, on the one hand, the classicist factory complex as an early representative of this new design is remarkable, on the other hand, the residential building, which was converted in Art Nouveau, is considered to be one of the highest quality and most demanding structures of this time in Esslingen.
activities
When the weather is nice, the Maille is well attended and there are numerous sports and leisure activities. Among the usual activities in parks in recent years, the juggling and slackline scenes, which shape the cityscape of Esslingen, have particularly stood out.
photos
View over the Wehrneckar to the Inner Bridge, on the right the Maille
View from the Maille over the Rossneckar to the Ritterstrasse
Central elevation of the House of Maille 4
View from the portal of House Maille 4
literature
- Andrea Steudle et al., Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany. Cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg. Volume 1.2.1. City of Esslingen am Neckar , Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0834-6 , p. 172 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Angelika Hauser-Hauswirth: Tradition and history of choral singing . In this. among others (Ed.): 150 Years of the Swabian Singers Association 1849 eV Past, Present, Future , Tübingen 1999, pp. 7–209
- ↑ According to the economic archive , the bankruptcy took place in 1869 and the successor company Tuchfabrik Esslingen AG was liquidated in 1886.
Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 25.1 " N , 9 ° 18 ′ 26.5" E