Parcul Carol
The Parcul Carol (Carol Park, also Freedom Park) is a local recreation area in Bucharest of about 36 hectares, which was from 1900 to 1906 on the occasion of the 40-year reign of the first Romanian king, Carol I (1881-1914, a member of the The Hohenzollern family ), designed and built by the French landscape architect Edouard Redont . The head of the building commission was Professor Constantin I. Istrati (1850-1918). This included a state exhibition with typical buildings from the various parts of the country and avenues, a lake and hills that were connected by romantic paths.
In the communist era after World War II, the architects Horia Maicu and Nicolae Cucu erected a monumental monument to the heroes of socialism here, which was to serve as a mausoleum for the top officials of the communist party and as a landmark. From the park entrance, a monumental axis with a staircase was built through the complex, thereby significantly changing its character. After the Romanian Revolution , the mausoleum was demolished in 1991.
Buildings in the park
- Mausoleul din Parcul Carol
- Fântâna Cantacuzino, 1870 with three sculptures by Filip Marin , Dimitrie Paciurea and Karl Storck .
- Statuile Giganţii
- Monumentul Eroilor (1962; Horia Maicu and Vasile Cucu)
- Monumentul Eroului Necunoscut (1991)
- Muzeul National Tehnic Prof. ing. Dimitrie Leonida (1909)
- Fântâna Zodiac
- Institutul Astronomic al Academiei Române
- Arenele novels
literature
- Florian Georgescu, Paul Cernovodeanu, Alexandru Cebuc: Monuments din Bucureşti ( Ed.Meridiane , Bucureşti, 1966)
- Dan Berindei , Sebastian Bonifaciu: Bucureşti. Ghid turistic ( Ed.Sport -Turism, București, 1978)
Web links
- Localizare pe harta -Parcul Carol (Romanian.)
- "Carol I Park in Bucharest" (Romanian)
- "Bucharest City Hall - Carol I Park" (Romanian)
- The Carol Parc Hotel (romanian)
- Sectorul 4 (Romanian)
- Harta Monumentelor Istorice din Bucureşti (Romanian.)
- Martino Stierli: " Built shadows of the past ". In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from February 4, 2005
- Revista Societăţii de Studii Istorice Erasmus, nr 12 of 2001 (Romanian.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ AGIR: propunere privind realizarea parcului naţional al ştiintei şi tehnicii ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Andreea Tuzu: Ana Pauker, "Stalin cu fustă"
Coordinates: 44 ° 25 ′ 39 ″ N , 26 ° 5 ′ 14 ″ E