Szczytnicki Park
The Szczytnicki Park ( German Scheitniger Park ) is a park in Wroclaw . The largest inner-city park with a total area of over 100 hectares is located east of Wroclaw's old town . It was named after the Breslau-Scheitnig district (today Szczytniki ).
history
The park consists of two parts, the northern and the southern section. These are cut through by ulica Adama Mickiewicza . The north corresponds to the oldest part of the park. This was laid out in 1785 around the former residence of Prince Friedrich Ludwig von Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen . The park was devastated during the Napoleonic Wars in 1806. In 1815 the city of Wroclaw acquired the park. After the park was expanded to the south, it was converted into an English landscape park between 1865 and 1867 by the Berlin garden architect Peter Joseph Lenné .
Between 1909 and 1912 the Japanese garden was laid out in the southern part of the park. In 1911 the Joseph von Eichendorff monument was erected. For the exhibition of the century , the area of the Centennial Hall, which is now part of the Wroclaw Fair, was built on the southwestern border to the park by 1913 . In the same year, the Johannes Nepomuk Church was built in the southern part . It is a scrap wood church that dates from the 17th century. This church originally comes from the Upper Silesian Koźle ( Cosel ).
In the northeast you can find the Olympic site, which was built between 1925 and 1929. The botanical school garden bordered to the south-east, the area of which is now included in the park. In the southeast the park borders on the Werkbundsiedlung built in 1928/29 in Breslau-Grüneiche (today Dąbie). The monument to Friedrich Schiller , built in 1905, was destroyed after 1945. This was set up again in 1995 on the 190th anniversary of Schiller's death. After 1945 the Joseph von Eichendorff memorial was melted down. This was also reconstructed, but is now in the Botanical Garden on the cathedral island. The base of the old monument can still be found in the park today.
Japanese garden
The Japanese garden is located in the southern part of the park. It was created between 1909 and 1912 on the occasion of the exhibition of the century. It borders on Adama Mickiewicza street to the north and the Jahrhunderthalle to the south . After the exhibition closed, the pavilions in the garden were dismantled. The garden compensation was retained, but lapsed over time. In 1995 the garden was reconstructed with the help of the Japanese embassy in Poland. When the Oder floods in 1997, the garden was destroyed and rebuilt in 1999.
The park is called Hakkoen , which means something like "white and red garden", an allusion to the colors of the Polish and Japanese flags. There are many Japanese-style ornaments in the park, including the Azumaya Pavilion, a pond with an open viewing pavilion, and the entrance gates.
Web links
- wroclaw.pl (Polish)
literature
- Gerhard Scheuermann: The Breslau Lexicon, MZ . Laumann-Verlag, Dülmen 1994, ISBN 3-87466-157-1 , pp. 1473-1475.
- Klaus Klöppel: Breslau - Lower Silesia and its millennial capital . Trescher Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89794-256-1 , pp. 117-119
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '50 " N , 17 ° 4' 54.1" E