Oswaldsgarten

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The Oswaldsgarten is a former garden and square in the central Hessian city of Gießen , which is now covered with the Galerie Neustädter Tor shopping center .

history

Elevation difference at the Oswaldsgarten stop with elevator to the platform (2009)

The Garden 1686. was first mentioned It was a so-called Wall garden , which was created by the expansion of the city is a fortress, and was based in Giessen family Oswald. At the beginning of the 19th century , Gottlieb Wilhelm Oswald took part in the demolition of the fortress and was able to expand his property at Neustädter Tor and Neustädter Schanze to around 17,000 m². In 1842 the site was sold to the city after no more heir lived in Gießen. At this time the Oswaldsgarten was on the western outskirts of Giessen.

Initially used for storage purposes, the garden has been increasingly used as a market as well as for events and festivals since 1849. In the course of time, parts of the property were also built on, for example for the construction of the Main-Weser Railway , the municipal girls 'school (built in 1849 in place of Oswald's house built in 1808), the municipal boys' school, a fire station and road construction . During the National Socialist era , the space for rallies with 8,000 to 10,000 people was to be expanded and renamed Platz der SA . These plans were not implemented as a result of the Second World War. Since the 1950s, several initiatives for a redesign have failed. For this reason, the Oswaldsgarten was often a political issue and the subject of heated discussions in Giessen.

View of the city center, system ring and stop (2014)

In December 2004, after long discussions during the time of the red-green coalition of the city, the Gießen-Oswaldsgarten train stop near the city center was opened on the Main-Weser railway, not far from the old Lahn bridge, the local public transport lines and the Lahntal cycle path . The regional trains between Gießen and Marburg as well as the hourly regional trains of the Mittelhessen-Express from and to Frankfurt (Main) Hbf stop here ; formerly the Biebertalbahn .

The Neustädter Tor gallery was opened on the Oswaldsgarten square in November 2005 , after a remaining space was used as a large car park in Giessen Neustadt for a long time.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A place of remembrance disappears: The Gießener Oswaldsgarten . In: Communications of the Upper Hessian History Association (MOHG), Vol. 91 (2006), p. 315

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Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 14 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 16 ″  E