Nilkheimer Park
The Nilkheimer Park is a landscape park in the city of Aschaffenburg in Bavaria . The KOMMZ festival takes place on its premises every year .
geography
The Nilkheimer Park, designed from 1780 to 1835, is located in the Nilkheim district on the left bank of the Main . On the northwestern edge, on the other side of the state road 3115 , the park Schönbusch joins. At the northeast end is the Nilkheim Main Bridge of the Bachgaubahn .
Buildings
His buildings include the Nilkheim Pavilion (Hall of Mirrors), which was built around 1830–35 as an amphiprostylos with Ionic columns. The former dining room (billiard room), a rectangular building with a hipped roof. An open round temple, a monopteros with six columns. Further furnishings include a statue of Hermes , the two stone posts of a swing, a pump well, historical stone benches, a sphinx (shell limestone, 1958) and an obelisk . This obelisk, built in 1819, had to be moved to the reduced park in 1910 for the construction of the neighboring railway bridge. The sphere at its upper end shows a silhouette of Saturn with a scythe. Finally, there are the two stone lions of the former Siegfried Monument, a war memorial that stood opposite the Herstall Tower in the open Schöntal . The Roman bath from Stockstadt Castle , which was moved from the other side of the Main to Nilkheimer Park in 1968.
The Hall of Mirrors is only open to guests on festive occasions such as weddings .
