Parc Montsouris
The Parc Montsouris is a 15-hectare public park in the same name, in the south of Paris lying quarters (districts), which for the 14th district belongs. The then Prefect Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann entrusted the design of this English landscape park from the 19th century to his colleague Jean-Charles Alphand .
history
The creation of the Parc Montsouris was decided by Haussmann in 1860. Ingénieur Alphand had major problems with the redesign of the former quarries, which were also used as a burial site at times. Among other things, several hundred corpses had to be reburied here. The main problem, however, was the railway lines crossing the future park. Work on the park began in 1867 and lasted, despite the opening in 1869, until 1878. On the opening day, among other things, the artificial lake is said to have drained, and the responsible engineer committed suicide. Since 1904, the water no longer needed to supply Paris has been channeled from the Aqueduc Médicis into the lake des Parc Monsouris.
Buildings
A central architectural attraction of the park used to be the Palais du Bardo , a former world exhibition pavilion from 1867 in a Moorish style, which burned down on March 5, 1991 after long years of neglect shortly before the planned renovation. In 1872 a meteorological observatory was created in the Montsouris Park. The park restaurant Le pavillon Montsouris has existed since 1889 and has been visited by numerous well-known guests, such as WI Lenin and Leon Trotsky , Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre , Paul Jouvet and Marcel Carné . The Cité universitaire station is served by the RER B line today . It is a former station on the Ligne de Sceaux, built around 1840. Since 2006 there has also been a station for the new tramway line 3. The Ligne de Petite Ceinture , a circular railway line around Paris that was closed in 1934, once crossed the park, for the most part (1 km) as a tunnel.
literature
- René-Léon Cottard: Vie et histoire du 14e arrondissement, Montparnasse, Parc de Montsouris, Petit Montrouge, Plaisance: histoire, anecdotes, célébrités, curiosités, monuments, musées, promenades, jardins, dictionnaire des rues , Hervas, vie pratique , Paris 1988, ISBN 2903118345
- Robert Schediwy, Franz Baltzarek: Green in the big city. History and future of European parks with special consideration of Vienna. Vienna 1982. ISBN 3850631257
photos
Antoine Étex :
Les Naufragés , 1859
( The castaways )
Montsouris weather station
Indicator of the meridian of Paris
The sea
Disused railway line of the Ligne de Petite Ceinture in the Montsouris Park
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 49 ′ 20 ″ N , 2 ° 20 ′ 18 ″ E