Ohrbergpark
The Ohrbergpark is a 45 ha large park in the style of an English landscape garden on the ear mountain in the municipality Emmerthal . The southern part consists of open spaces and woodland, in the northern part the park turns into a light forest. The park is a popular destination for its colorful blooming azaleas and rhododendrons as well as its exotic trees . The park offers wide views of the Emmer and Weser valleys .
Georg Adolph von Hake (1779–1840) had today's Ohrbergpark laid out as a landscape park around 1818 within sight of his manor Ohr . The facility is freely accessible and is still owned by the von Hake family to this day.
location
The park is located on the Ohrberg, which rises 80 meters above the Weser valley and borders the Hamelin district of Klein Berkel in the northwest , about 3 km south of the city center of Hameln . The mountain has a flat western slope with the park and an eastern slope steeply sloping towards the Weser above the B 83 . The steep slope was created in 1858 by blasting for the course of today's B 83 along the Weser.
Access is possible via a path that branches off the main road from the direction of Ohr. Lookout points in the park allow distant views of the Emmer valley and the Weser valley with the large Weserschleife at Rittergut Ohr. On the opposite Bückeberg , the former site of the Reichserntedankfeste is still clearly visible.
Emergence
The Ohrberg was used as pasture for sheep and as a hut forest until the beginning of the 19th century . From 1817 Georg Adolf von Hake had the southern area converted into a landscape park . In order to create a clear line of sight between the landscaped garden and his manor house, he had individual farms relocated to the village. To supervise the work, he built a pavilion in 1826, which he used as an apartment in the summer. The park was built on the model of the current English landscape parks at that time. The father of Georg Adolph, the head of the royal court building and gardening department in Hanover, Christian Ludwig von Hake, had already developed the first ideas.
Creation legend
According to the vernacular , the creation of the landscape garden is based on the fact that Georg Adolph von Hake refused an order from the General von Wellington in the battle of Waterloo in 1815 . Hake was the commander of a Hanoverian unit and after being expelled from the army was banished to his manor of Ohr for life .
Georg Adolph von Hake
Georg Adolph von Hake (1779–1840) studied in Göttingen and was in 1798 by King Georg III. appointed court squire by Hanover . Later he was in the service of Ernst August von Hannover . During stays abroad in Switzerland and England from 1802 to 1812 he got to know the current garden art of his time with the park-like English landscape garden . After his father died, he lived on the manor of Ohr from 1818 . Georg Adolph von Hake wrote the book On Higher Garden Art - Fragments from an Old Gardener's Diary . He died childless in 1840 and bequeathed his property to a cousin from Diedersen . He had a sandstone monument erected for Georg Adolph in a rock niche on the steep slope facing the Weser , based on a design by Ernst von Bandel . Allegedly, Georg Adolph's heart is said to have been buried in a zinc urn at his own request. His bones are in the church of Ohr. The Ohrbergpark has been under landscape protection since 1936 and is still owned by the von Hake family today. The nearby Rittergut Ohr has been in the possession of the von Hake family since 1307 , who currently live in the manor house in the 21st generation.
Plants and garden design
The Ohrbergpark is best known for its early flowering shrubs and plants. These include large groups of azaleas and rhododendrons with a flowering period from April to June. Mention may also snowdrop trees , cherry laurel , black locust and laburnum .
The tree species worth mentioning are the Judas tree , sequoia , tupelo , sweetgum , beech , Swedish whitebeam , wig bush , vinegar tree , tree of gods , and magnolias . Come in the park of rare trees Ginkgo tree , witch hazel , Japanese maple , Caucasian wingnut and pigeons trees in front.
The park can be walked on gently curved paths that provide attractive gazebos. In the southern part there is an alternation of open spaces and woody plantings, in the northern part the park turns into a light forest with sunken paths and stairs.
A gardening magazine mentioned the extraordinary variety of varieties in the landscape garden on the Ohrberg as early as 1866. There was talk of 15 magnolia, 50 rhodode and 225 azalea varieties. The landowner Ernst von Hake carried out significant replanting of azaleas and rhododendrons in 1950.
A 12 m² stone table stands on a central meadow in the park. A cousin Georg Adolph from Buchhagen am Vogler donated the red sandstone capstone . The seven pillars of the table come from the rock of the Ohrberg.
Microclimate
The abundant flowering of rhododendrons and azaleas is due to the special microclimate of the park, from which a steep slope with rocky cliffs leads down to the Weser. The slope is warmed up by the sun, causing a humid and warm draft of air to rise from the river to the park, which promotes plant growth.
today
The Ohrbergpark is still looked after and maintained by the von Hake family today, for which public funds are also granted. The pavilion in the park, built by Georg Adolph von Hake in 1826, was demolished in 1965 because it was dilapidated. Afterwards, the Ohrberghaus was built in its place as an excursion restaurant for visitors to the Ohrbergpark. After several years of vacancy, it was renovated in 2011 and opened as a yoga school. The rooms of the Ohrberghaus can be rented for celebrations.
The park is within the much larger protected landscape "Wesertal" ( LSG HM 33 in the district of Hameln-Pyrmont ).
literature
- Rainer Schomann (ed.), Urs Boeck : Park on the Ohrberg near Hameln in: Historical gardens in Lower Saxony, catalog for the state exhibition, opening on June 9, 2000 in the foyer of the Lower Saxony state parliament in Hanover . Hannover, 2000, pp. 146-147.
Web links
- Description of the Ohrbergpark (PDF; 476 kB)
- Description of the Ohrberg Park at the Lower Saxony Society for the Preservation of Historical Gardens
- History of the Ohrbergpark
- Short story of the Ohrbergpark
Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 15 ″ N , 9 ° 21 ′ 11 ″ E