Platnersberg
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Platnersberg
Statistical District 911 City of Nuremberg
Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 17 " N , 11 ° 7 ′ 45" E
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| Height : | 335 m above sea level NN |
| Postal code : | 90491 |
| Area code : | 0911 |
 Location of the statistical district 91 Erlenstegen in Nuremberg
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 Platnersberg (Nuremberg)
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The Platnersberg (335.5 m) is an approximately ten hectare green area in the Nuremberg district of Erlenstegen . Since January 1, 1899, the Platnersberg has been incorporated into the Nuremberg urban district as part of the former rural community of Erlenstegen. Platnersberg is also the name of District 911 in District 91 Erlenstegen, whose area is not identical to the green corridor.
Earlier names
Before 1545 the hill was known as Künschrottenberg, a name that is derived from Kunschrotte, which means something like gorse . From around 1545 the mountain was called Thumerberg after its owner at the time (Georg Thum, also called Thumen). A royal rescript dated October 11, 1854 approved the renaming of the hamlet Thumenberg in Platnersberg (after Georg Zacharias Platner , who had acquired the Thumenberg in 1836).
history
A mansion on the Künschrottenberg, which has existed since 1545, was rebuilt many times, for example under Georg Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach , who had the old manor converted into a baroque building with a mansard roof in 1755. Under Georg Zacharias Platner, who acquired the property in 1836, the baroque building was fundamentally redesigned in a neo-Gothic style under the direction of the architect Carl Alexander Heideloff and lost its historical character. In 1896 the neo-Gothic castle was torn down and replaced by a neo-renaissance villa. In 1906 the city of Nuremberg bought the villa and the park and set up a restaurant there in 1908, which was a well-attended excursion destination for Nuremberg residents until the 1930s. The park became a public green area in 1907. In 1943 the restaurant was completely destroyed by a bomb attack.
At the place where a manor house stood for many centuries is the Platnersberg senior citizens' housing complex, which was built in the early 1960s and comprehensively modernized from 1987 to 1991.
Around 2008 the footpath leading up from Erlenstegen was relocated a few meters for nature conservation reasons; the row of six old oaks (probably over 350 years old) now stands unimpaired on the lawn.
Today's park
Today's park slopes down to the east and south. In the south it adjoins Erlenstegenstraße (B14). The green areas on both sides of the footpath, which crosses halfway up, are released as sunbathing areas. In the upper western area there is a children's playground created in 2004.
The old trees are valuable. In 1996, 10 of these old trees were designated as natural monuments. The largest of the oaks, the bear oak, has a trunk circumference of 6.71 m and a height of 28 m.
On July 11, 2014, a small nature trail was inaugurated in the green area on Platnersberg. This was done in cooperation with the Bund Naturschutz , the city council Marcus König, the civil association Jobst-Erlenstegen and SÖR. In addition to information about an old yew tree and the alder that gives the district its name, the bats that live in the park are presented in more detail. In the bear oak there are two summer quarters of the water bat (Myotis daubentonii) . Great noctule bat (Nyctalus noctula) and mosquito bat (Pipistrellus pygmaeus) were detected in the bat boxes . If you want, you can also take part in a bird song quiz.
The bear fountain
The so-called Bärenbrunnen (also called Bärenbrünnlein) stands on the Platnersberg. According to an old legend, Hans Groland , owner of the Künschrottenberg (today: Platnersberg), as a hunter surprised a drinking bear at this point and shot it to death. As a souvenir he had a bear carved in stone set up at this fountain, which from then on was called the Bear Fountain . Two centuries later, Andreas Georg Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach had the fountain renewed. At that time he made a drawing showing the renovated little fountain in the middle of a pretty little garden.
When the city of Nuremberg took over the Platnersberg in 1906, only relics of the historical Bärenbrünnlein could be seen. The merchant Gustav Egert, first chairman of the Association for the Beautification of Erlenstegen, founded a committee in 1908 to restore the bear fountain. On November 13, 1909, on the same day that the tram that continued to Eichendorffstrasse (then line 6) was opened, the committee presented the new bear fountain to the city as a token of Erlenstegen's gratitude. Another restoration of the Bärenbrünnlein was carried out in 2002.
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- ^ Nuremberg city map service: District 911 Platnersberg
- ↑ BayernAtlas renaming on historical map , source: Bavarian first recording
- ↑ Rusam / Viertel (2006), p. 41.
- ↑ bear oak in the directory monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017
- ↑ Bettina Cordes: Bat Conservation in the City of Nuremberg: Inventory and Development Perspectives. Bavarian State Office for Environmental Protection (LfU), July 2004, accessed on August 25, 2017 .
literature
- Hermann Rusam, Rudi Viertel: The Platnersberg park in Nuremberg-Erlenstegen. 1906-2006. 100 years of Platnersberg in municipal ownership. Ed .: City of Nuremberg. Horticultural Office, July 2006.
- Horst-Dieter Beyerstedt: From Erlenstegen's history, commemorative publication for the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of Erlenstegens. Nuremberg 1999, pp. 36-54.
- Heinrich Dorsch: Festschrift for the unveiling of the bear fountain in the urban park Platnersberg in Nuremberg-Erlenstegen. Nuremberg 1909, book and art print shop Fr. Monninger, owner S. Liebel, Nuremberg (see also: To the history of the Platnersberg. In: The show. Illustrated supplement of the Nordbayerische Zeitung, year 1909, No. 8, p. 6 and 7)
