Park Rosenhöhe
The Park Rosenhöhe is a historical park on a hill to the east of Darmstadt . Its special features include a rosarium with rose dome on the top of the hill as well as the mausoleums and tombs of the Hessian princely house . The buildings of the New Rosenhöhe Artists' Colony are also located on the edge of the park .
Together with the Mathildenhöhe , the Art Nouveau houses and the wedding tower, the Rosenhöhe forms a unique ensemble. The park now serves as a local recreation area and is also a popular destination for rose lovers. In addition to the multitude of roses, you will also find extensive meadows , orchards , sequoias and other rare tree species.
The entire Rosenhöhe Park is a listed building and is also a protected cultural asset under the Hague Convention .
History of the park
Around 1810 Wilhelmine von Baden , the wife of the later Grand Duke Ludwig II (from 1830), had the Rosenhöhe Park laid out as a landscape garden with partly exotic trees on the site of a former vineyard. Pavilions and garden houses as well as the tea house, which has been rebuilt true to the original today, furnished the park together with a rather modest house that the Grand Duchess often lived in.
Mausoleums
In 1826 a "serious element" was added to the park with the so-called Old Mausoleum . The New Mausoleum was built in 1910 .
Rosarium
The current heart of the park - the Rosarium - was laid out by the last Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig around 1900.
Rosenhöhe Palace
In 1894 a palace was built in the southern part of the park according to plans by Gustav Jacobi, built in the style of historicism , which the brother of Grand Duke Ludwig IV , Prince Wilhelm, had built as a residence. After his death in 1900, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig inherited the property, and later the Prussian embassy in the Grand Duchy of Hesse moved into it . After the First World War it was converted into apartments; In 1944 it burned down completely in an air raid and was then completely removed. Today a hedge in the outline of the palace, a portal with a coat of arms and a fountain remind of this building.
The Rosenhöhe Park became the property of the City of Darmstadt in 1979. The terrace-shaped rosarium, neglected after two world wars, and a small hedge garden for observing the sunsets have been restored.
Tombs of the House of Hesse
In the park there are several burial places of the grand ducal family, whose members are buried in the old mausoleum , in the new mausoleum and a number of earth graves.
Lion gate
The lion gate forms the entrance to the Rosenhöhe. Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig had it built for the 25th anniversary of the artists' colony in 1927. It consists of six clinker pillars designed by Albin Müller , on which six lion sculptures, created by Bernhard Hoetger as early as 1914, were placed. The gates between the pillars are decorated with relief panels, which the Darmstadt artist Hermann Tomada made in 1967 as replicas of Hoetger's originals.
The Löwentor goes back to the main portal of the 4th exhibition of the Darmstadt artists' colony in 1914 on Mathildenhöhe, where the lion sculptures made of cast concrete stood on six artificial stone double columns with Ionic capitals . After the end of the exhibition, the main portal was dismantled and stored. The pairs of pillars, also designed by Albin Müller, were repositioned in the entrance area of the university stadium in 1939.
The lion sculptures are popularly called "sneezing hedgehogs".
Rosarium
Another component is the terraced rosarium with the rose dome at the highest point of the Rosenhöhe . In the rosarium and the surrounding park, over 200 different types of roses bloom from June to November . The assortment includes almost all local varieties, as well as some wild roses from Europe.
Spanish tower
The Spanish Tower is a tower-like building on the northeast edge of the park. To this day it has not been possible to clarify what the purpose of the old tower was. The year of construction, client and architect are also unknown. It is also unclear where the tower got its name from.
The two small side wings were added in 1891.
A tree attendant lived on the property in the 1930s and 1940s. Today the property is empty.
gallery
Porter or guard house at the Ostbahnhof
Inside view of the Rose Cathedral
Rosenhöhe in summer
Coat of arms from the entrance portal of the former Rosenhöhe Palace
Spanish Tower (2015)
Quotes
- "This corner of the earth smiles before everyone else." - Grand Duchess Wilhelmine
- “In order to fully do justice to the beautiful name Rosenhöhe, I decided to create a rose garden that was not yet known in Germany. As a model I had a system in mind that would combine the character of the enchanting rose gardens of Italy with their abundance of flowers and their architectural interspersed with the character of the artistically and flower-growing rose gardens of England. ”- Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig
See also
Web links
- Park Rosenhöhe Darmstadt
- Presentation on the New Mausoleum
- Park and rose garden Rosenhöhe
- Rosenhöhe Darmstadt
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Förderverein Park Rosenhöhe, section “Purpose of the Association” on the website of the Förderverein Park Rosenhöhe eV, Darmstadt
- ↑ Photo of the blue and white protective symbol at the gate in the park, on commons.wikimedia.org
- ↑ http://www.darmstadt.de/darmstadt-erleben/sehenswuerdheiten/parks-und-gaerten/park-rosenhoehe/index.htm
- ↑ Darmstädter Echo, Thursday, November 7, 2019, p. 12.
- ^ Stadtlexikon Darmstadt, Konrad Theiss Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart, 2006, p. 832f.
- ↑ Rosenhöhe Park. City of Darmstadt, accessed on September 10, 2011 .
- ↑ http://homepage.mac.com/gmeinerjj/HomeFoer/PRDE06Seite.html ( 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.
Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 33 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 46" E