Park Schönfeld

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Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 53 ″  N , 9 ° 28 ′ 12 ″  E

Pond in Schönfeld Park

The Park Schonfeld is a public park on the southern edge of the district Wehlheiden in Kassel . The Schönfeld Palace and the Botanical Garden are located in it . The park is traversed by the Spittelbach , which is also fed by the Donar spring located a little to the west .

history

The facility goes back to an English-style landscape park , which was commissioned by Nikolaus Heinrich von Schönfeld in 1777. Since he lacked the necessary money, the land was first bought by Landgrave Wilhelm I of Hessen Kassel , but then sold to the tobacco dealer Hendrik Thorbecke in 1793. After his death in 1806 it came into the possession of the banker Karl Jordis. In 1809, Jérôme Bonaparte , who resided in Kassel as King of Westphalia from 1807 to 1813 , had the garden expanded.

In 1891 the site was leased to the menagerie owner Carl Kreibe, who ran a zoological garden there from 1896 to 1897 . The last animal kennel was not removed until 1962. In 1912, the Kassel Botanical Garden was set up as a school garden by separating a 1.5 hectare area from Schönfeld Park. In the 1960s, a private zoo association tried to re-establish a small zoo in the park, but this failed due to a lack of support and was finally abandoned in 1969 when the association was dissolved.

In 2012, a sound path with eight sound objects was built in Park Schönfeld.

literature

  • Hans Werner Kalbfuss: The Karlsaue and Park Schönfeld in Kassel . Lometsch, Kassel 1972, DNB  720194555 .
  • Ehrenfried Kluckert: The Kassel Gardens: Refined Perspectives . 1st edition. Hirmer, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7774-3435-3 , pp. 128-131 .

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