Oppelscher garden

Oppelscher Garten, wall on Seifengasse

Oppelscher Garten, children's playground

The Oppelsche Garden with the Oppelschen Pavilion in the city of Weimar is a cultural monument and at the same time a garden monument within the meaning of the Thuringian Monument Protection Act (ThürDSchG).

Location and history

It is located between Puschkinstrasse and Seifengasse, not far from Goethe's house on Frauenplan, and is named after the Saxon-Weimar privy councilor and director of the landscape fund Johann Siegmund von Oppel (1730–1798), the former owner of the property and likely investor of the garden . The garden is about 100 m long in an east-west direction and tapers from about 50 m width at the western end to only about 15 m at its east end. The year of construction of the garden pavilion at the western end, a baroque building with a domed roof and Rococo elements , which is one of the most artistically significant examples of baroque garden architecture in Weimar, has not been documented, but comparisons of style point to the mid-1730s. Johann Siegmund von Oppel was therefore not its client.

The last user of the pavilion and the park was the Weimar court jeweler Theodor Müller at the beginning of the 20th century. Towards the end of the 1960s, the facility was assigned to the Ministry of National Education by means of a usage contract , which used the garden as an open space for a kindergarten. Use of the pavilion was given up at the end of the 1970s. The baroque basic structure of the garden was no longer recognizable at that time: the pavilion had fallen into disrepair, and the garden was built on with garages, sanitary facilities and storage facilities for equipment and machines.

The restoration did not begin until the beginning of 1989. The “Feierabendbrigade Goldschmidt”, a citizens' initiative organized by neighbors , began to rebuild the dilapidated pavilion under the direction of the architect Klaus-Peter Kiefer. Two years later it got its dome back, in which a fresco was discovered and restored.

Todays use

Since 2012 there has been a legal dispute over the use of the property and the pavilion. A café with 40 seats, approved in 2008 for the western part of the garden, became a garden restaurant with a beer garden for 120 guests with a marquee, toilet container and pizza oven in the winter garden under new tenants. Neighbors and the city administration are demanding a considerable dismantling, because the baroque garden monument must remain tangible as such.

The eastern part of the garden is leased to the operator of the kindergarten "Am Goethepark" as a playground.

Footnotes

Web links

Commons : Oppelscher Garten - Collection of images, videos and audio files

50.978034 11.330766Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 40.9 ″ N , 11 ° 19 ′ 50.8 ″ E

[1] List of monuments of the independent city of Weimar (Status: November 20, 2013) ( Memento of November 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

[2] The Theodor Müller company, at weimar-orden.de

[3] Controversy over monument protection and noise in Oppelschen Garten. Thuringian General, Weimar, July 10, 2013