Palmengarten (Leipzig)

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The fountain in the palm garden

The palm garden is a 22.5 hectare park in Leipzig-Lindenau .

location

The palm garden is located about two kilometers west of Leipzig city center. It is bordered to the north by Jahnallee , to the east by Richard-Wagner-Hain , to the south by Karl-Heine-Strasse and to the west by Kleine Luppe and Lützner Strasse. Until it was backfilled around 1920, instead of Lützner Strasse , the Kuhburger water formed the western border of the Leipzig palm garden.

history

Construction of the society house in the palm garden.

The grounds of the park on the west bank of the Elster - Pleiße - Aue were originally part of the Leipzig floodplain forest . After the International Horticultural Exhibition took place in 1893 in the northern part of what would later become the park on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Leipzig Gardeners Association , a competition to create a palm garden based on the Frankfurt Palm Garden was announced. The competition was won by the Frankfurt garden technician Eduard May. The Lindenau nursery owner Otto Moßdorf, who had already designed the site of the horticultural exhibition and took second place in the competition, was then commissioned to implement the winning design. In order to realize the project, a stock corporation was founded in 1896 , which leased the main site from the city and bought Ritterwerder to the southeast - later known as Klingerhain .

Statue of Manon Lescaut

On April 29, 1899, the palm garden was ceremoniously opened with a speech by Mayor Otto Georgi . Initially, it was reserved for the “higher circles” as the “most elegant recreational center in Leipzig”. The name of the park and also a magnet for visitors was the society and concert hall designed by the Leipzig architects Schmidt & Johlige . This was in the northeast part of the park. To the south of this, in the immediate vicinity, was the palm house, which housed palm trees and other tropical plants on an inner surface of 1,280 m² . There is a 11,050 m² pond to the south-east of the former ensemble of buildings . In its northern part there is an island that is crossed by the main path of the park. A cast-iron pavilion has been located on the east bank of the pond since 1897 , which was initially located in König-Albert-Park during the Saxon-Thuringian industrial and commercial exhibition . From 1900 until its dismantling for the metal donation of the German people in 1942, the bronze statue of Manon Lescaut by the French sculptor Antonin Mercié (1845-1916) stood in the park .

On October 15, 1901, a serious accident occurred in the great hall of the Society House . During a public concert , a strip of stucco several meters long and weighing around 50 kilograms detached itself from the ceiling and fell from a height of 14 meters onto the concert-goers. A 16-year-old woman from Szczecin was killed and two Leipzig concert-goers injured. In the following years, the two women from Leipzig filed a lawsuit against the Aktiengesellschaft des Palmengarten, the architects Arthur Johlige and August Hermann Schmidt, the city of Leipzig (as supervision of the building authorities) and against Hermann Knauer as managing director of the Berlin construction company Boswau & Knauer . The trials took place at the Leipzig Regional Court and the Dresden Higher Regional Court , the appeals at the Reich Court . Some of the lawsuits were dismissed and some of the lawsuits were terminated through settlements .

The Richard Wagner Association of German Women was founded on February 13, 1909 in the Palmengarten Society House . In 1921 the site was taken over by the city of Leipzig. For financial reasons, the palm garden was reduced to the area north of the Elster in 1936. For this purpose, the wall that had previously existed on Plagwitzer Strasse was demolished and a ticket booth was built behind the Klingerhainbrücke . The Klingerhain was thus freely accessible. Since the Gutenberg Reich Exhibition was to take place on the site of the Palmengarten in 1940 , the society and palm house was blown up on January 10, 1939. The outbreak of the Second World War finally prevented the exhibition from taking place.

In 1955 the palm garden was combined with the König-Albert-Park, the Johannapark and the Scheibenholzpark to form the Clara-Zetkin-Park . Since April 2011 the park officially bears the old name Palmengarten again .

The palm garden hosts a variety dendrologically valuable and special trees , which in large part from the 1960 resolution nursery of Botanical Garden originate.

In October 2009 the Revue Theater Am Palmengarten opened with a hall for up to 150 people; It was created through the renovation of the listed building of a gas filling station from 1944. In March 2018, the theater ceased operations.

  • Historical view of the Leipzig Palm Garden on a postcard

  • Former society house around 1900 on a contemporary postcard

  • In the palm garden (2008)

  • Elsterbrücke in the Palmengarten (2008)

  • Revue Theater
    Am Palmengarten (2012)

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Hädicke: From the pasture to the landscape garden. The history of the palm garden began with the International Jubilee Horticultural Exhibition in 1893. Leipziger Blätter 37 (2000), ISSN  0232-7244 , pp. 40–43.
  • Horst Riedel, Thomas Nabert (ed.): Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . 1st edition. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 .

Web links

Commons : Palmengarten Leipzig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Plan of the palm garden and its boundaries . City of Leipzig, accessed on September 16, 2019 (PDF file, 1.16 MB).
  2. ↑ Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z. P. 452.
  3. ↑ Palm garden. In: www.leipzig.de. City of Leipzig, accessed on September 16, 2019 .
  4. ^ Eva-Maria Bast: The tragic end of Manon Lescaut . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . January 23, 2019, p. 19 .
  5. ^ The collapse of the ceiling in the Leipzig Palm Garden in front of the Imperial Court . In: Profanbau. Journal for commercial, industrial and transport buildings, residential buildings and villas 6 (1910), p. 208 f, ZDB -ID 956749-5 .
  6. ^ André Loh-Kliesch: Palmengarten. In: www.leipzig-lexikon.de. Retrieved September 16, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Mark Daniel: Revuetheater am Palmengarten is closed. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung. March 29, 2018, accessed September 16, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 7.1 ″  N , 12 ° 20 ′ 43.5 ″  E