Queen Auguste Victoria Park

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Castle mirroring in Queen Auguste Victoria Park near Umkirch.
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The Queen-Auguste-Victoria-Park is a German landscape park in Umkirch near Freiburg, in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald in the state of Baden-Württemberg .

It emerged from the former castle and family estate of Stephanie, Grand Duchess of Baden and was founded by the Portuguese titular queen Auguste Viktoria von Hohenzollern . From 1933 to 1934 they built a new castle in what is now the Hohenzollern property. The property was auctioned by the publisher Werner Semmler in 1993 and then restored. He bought back the previous properties, added more properties and built a new landscape park with six ponds in the style of an English landscape park according to his own plans .

history

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The village of Umkirch used to be the exclusive property of numerous noble landlords. Flora Countess von Wrbna inherited the estate through the will of her father on January 6, 1795, Count Johann Friedrich von Kageneck . On September 21, 1826, the Countess sold the estate and all rights to the Umkirch estate for 345,000 guilders to Grand Duchess Stephanie von Baden, who made the estate her summer residence. Grand Duchess Stephanie was a widow for 44 years until her death in Nice on January 29, 1860. The division of their legacy was regulated by the inheritance contract dated June 28, 1860. Thereafter, the Umkirch estate passed to her daughter Josephine, Princess of Baden , wife of the Prince of Karl Anton von Hohenzollern . On May 3, 1887, she raised the Umkirch castle estate with the property of 512 hectares to the family estate and appointed her second-born son Karl Eytel, Prince of Hohenzollern, as heir. When Princess Josephine died on June 19, 1900, the estate fell to her son, who had meanwhile become King of Romania as Carol I. With this, the Umkirch Castle was transferred from the Baden House to the Swabian House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. After the death of King Carol I of Romania (1914), the family estate was passed on to Prince Friedrich Victor von Hohenzollern on November 7, 1916. From then on he lived in the castle with his wife Margarete Fürstin von Hohenzollern, Duchess of Saxony. In 1933 Prince Friedrich allowed his sister Auguste-Victoria, Queen of Portugal, Princess of Hohenzollern, to build a new palace on his family estate. With a deed dated July 27, 1934, he subsequently ceded around 8 hectares of land to the southwest of his master palace. After the death of King Dom Manuel II . she returned from Portugal to Germany and had a new castle built for her by the Bonn architects Stumpf and Kleefisch. In memory of her country estate in England, she named the property "Fulwell Park". On April 23, 1939 Auguste-Victoria married Count Robert Douglas and lived alternately at Schloss Münchhöf and in Fulwell Park. After the Second World War , the Hohenzollern Castle was confiscated by the French occupying forces. General Pierre Péne resided from 1946 to 1952 as “Governor for the State of Baden” in the princely palace. During this time, Prince Friedrich-Wilhelm von Hohenzollern lived in the small country house of his sister Auguste-Victoria. After the ex-queen's death on August 28, 1966, her property was returned to the Princely House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. The University of Freiburg moved in with its psychosomatic clinic. An insurance broker later took over the property, which now only has around 1.10 hectares. In 1993 the publicist and publisher Werner Semmler bought the Rumpfgut. Over the years, he bought back the former properties and the former Schlosswiese and additional forest properties from the Hohenzollern family. He built a new landscape park based on his own design and ideas, which he called "Queen-Auguste-Victoria-Park" in honor and in memory of the founder, not after his own name.

For some time now, the owner has only been able to take care of the park to a limited extent due to age and illness. At an auction scheduled for January 20, 2017, no bidder was found. On November 22nd, 2016 the association Queen-Auguste-Victoria-Park e. V. - European work for culture, art and nature . It is registered at the Freiburg District Court and recognized by the Freiburg Tax Office as non-profit. According to the statutes, he took over the management of the park.

Castle / building

The new castle was built from 1932 to 1934. After the building application, the client was Auguste-Victoria of Portugal. She had placed the building contract with the Bonn architects Jacob Stumpf and Toni Kleefisch. The construction work was supervised by the cabinet of the Prince of Hohenzollern and his cabinet chief Baron von Hallberg. The then Freiburger Zeitung presented the new construction of the palace as an "exemplary work in creating jobs". The 4-story building is built in the style of an English country house. A terrace with a wide flight of stairs and an exit to a representative and stylized water basin stretches across the entire south front of the royal country house. The country house is a listed building.

Park description

Spring awakening: over 100,000 daffodils bloom every year on the castle meadow.

The approximately 11-hectare park is embedded in the former meadow landscape between the Dreisam and the Rhine, the Freiburg Bay , the Tuniberg and the Kaiserstuhl . In the east and south, the view from the park and the little castle opens over the nearby Mooswald to the peaks of the Black Forest mountains. In the north, lines of sight to the Kaiserstuhl and the skull open up . The six ponds in the park give the impression of a natural and pristine meadow landscape. The three-way cascades of the ponds plunge into the other ponds according to the slope of the landscape: the Wernersee into the Gertrud-Weiher and this into the Alois-Weiher, the Martinsee and the Christa-Weiher into the Doris-Weiher. At the end of Lake Martin, the so-called "Semmler Hill" rises. The top of the hill is reflected in the water of Lake Martin and, as the highest point in the park, provides a view of the total work of art. In the line of sight it forms the opposite pole to the castle. From the Semmler hill over the Martinsee, the Christa-Weiher and the Wernersee the long line of sight opens to the castle, which is reflected in the water in each of the three consecutive ponds. The artistic visual axis from the Semmler hill is lined with old oaks, which are reflected in the water of the ponds and with their crowns have formed a "viewing tunnel" to the castle. In this so-called “tree tunnel”, the surfaces of the ponds look like brightly flooded light wells, which, with the oaks, convey a special play of light and shadow. Between the Martinsee, the Christa-Weiher and the Doris-Weiher is the "Eichenhof" with the hundred-year-old oaks. When designing the park, care was taken to include the old trees in the planning as much as possible. For the replanting, rare tree species from all over the world were chosen that match the local climate zone.

Awards

On May 10, 2002, park creator Werner Semmler was awarded a prize by the President of the European Cultural Foundation PRO EUROPA with the European Garden Culture Association for his work of garden art at the Bellevue Palace in Berlin in the presence of Federal President Johannes Rau, Wolfgang Schäuble, German minister and European ambassador. Award for creation.

The park in film and television

In July 2008 the Queen-Auguste-Victoria-Park was the scene and location for a real TV wedding of the TV station Pro Sieben with the bride and groom Tobias Mutter and Agnes Magiera. In the program "Frank der Weddingplaner", Frank Matthée had the bride and groom married by a priest in front of the open backdrop of the Queen Auguste Victoria Park. Around two million viewers are said to have followed the wedding on television.

In August 2011, the Queen-Auguste-Victoria-Park with the actors Christine Kaufmann , Heike Deutschmann, Lucie Heinze, Eva Maria Kurz and others was the location of the ARD series Animals up to the roof : In the episode The Millionaire Christine Kaufmann played “Frau von Werther ”.

Conservation and trees

"Indian Summer" in Queen Auguste Victoria Park: exotic trees in all colors.

According to the will of the park creator, the park should be a reserve for special and rare creatures of nature. Accordingly, numerous rare trees have been planted from around the world. The goal is to create a tree refuge for rare and beautiful trees. There are currently around 150 different tree species from over 50 genera in the park. B. Maple (Acer), sweetgum (Liquidambar), yellowwood (Cladrastis), apple trees (Malus), birches (Betula), pear trees (Pyrus), bubble ash (Koelreuteria), bluebell tree (Paulownia), beech (Fagus), boxwood (Buxus ), Mountain ash (Sorbus), fig tree (Ficus), oak (Quercus), Persian ironwood tree ( Parrotia), alder (Alnus), ash (Fraxinus), sweet chestnut (Castanea), European hop beech (Ostrya), fennel tree (Sassafras), wingnut (Pterocarya), Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba), honey locusts (Gleditsia), tree of heaven (Ailanthus), hornbeam (Carpinus), dogwood (Cornus), hazelnuts (Coryloideae), hickory (Carya), Judas tree (Cercis), Katsura (Cercidiphyllum) cherry trees (Prunus), Linden (Tilia), magnolia (Magnolia), lily of the valley tree (Halesia), mulberry (Morus), Orange cherry (Idesia) Osagedorn (Maclura), poplar (Popolus), bitter wood tree (Picrasma), sycamore (Platanus), False beech (Nothofagus), black locust (Robinia), horse chestnut (Aesculus), sour tree (Oxydendrum), S. chnurbaum (Styphnolobium), holly (Ilex), handkerchief tree (Davida), trumpet tree (Catalpa), tulip tree (Liriodendron), tupelo tree (Nyssa), elm (Ulmus), walnuts (Juglans), willow (Salix), hawthorn (Crataegus), Zelkoven (Zelkova). All 12 types of horse chestnuts (Aeskulus) and also the sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) are present in the park.

Due to the concept that there is only minimal intervention in the park all year round. B. only mowed once a year - many rare animal species and insects have settled here. Kingfishers and nightingales can be found here. Most of the area is part of the Freiburg Mooswälder landscape protection area, and it is also classified as a bird sanctuary and a flora-fauna habitat.

Waters and lakes

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Two small streams flow through the park, which are fed by the running water of the Black Forest mountain Schauinsland and the Freiburg Bay and flow north into the Umkircher Mühlbach and the Neugraben. One of them, the Augusten-Bächle, also takes sources from the two adjacent palace gardens and drains the palace. There are six artificial ponds in Queen-Auguste Victoria-Park: Wernersee, Gertrud-Weiher, Alois-Weiher, Christa-Weiher, Martinsee and Doris-Weiher; named by park creator Werner Semmler after the first names of his parents and siblings.

Luisensteg

After the Luisensteg, built in the city of Freiburg in 1900, was dismantled for safety reasons and replaced by a replica, the original was bought by the owner of the park and placed in the park and is therefore preserved. The footbridge is named after Grand Duchess Luise von Baden and was inaugurated in her presence at the time.

Events

Private and public concerts, events and guided tours are held regularly in the park. Both opera singers and street artists are invited to the Mother's Day concert in May for their performances.

Web links

Commons : Queen-Auguste-Victoria-Park  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ http://www.queen-auguste-victoria-park.de/article_gallery.php?s_category=2&categoryid=0
  3. ^ Badische Zeitung: Culture: Werner Semmler's Umkircher Landscape Garden: A green work of art - badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved July 12, 2016 .
  4. ^ Peter Martens: Culture Guide Freiburg . In: Kulturverlag ART + Weise (ed.): ISBN 978-3-9811965-2-8 . Edition 2009.
  5. ↑ cultural critic Stefan Tolksdorf in the Badische Zeitung: http://www.badische-zeitung.de/kultur-sonstige/ein-gruenes-kunstwerk--4345392.html
  6. ^ State archive Sigmaringen Vinzenz Kremp, history of the village Umkirch, self-published by the municipality Umkirch, 1984
  7. ↑ Land Registry Umkirch
  8. ↑ http://www.queen-auguste-victoria-park.de/article_gallery.php?s_category=2&categoryid=0
  9. ↑ a b c Foreclosure auction: Nobody bids for Umkircher Park , Manfred Frietsch, Badische Zeitung, January 22, 2017, accessed April 30, 2017
  10. ^ Queen-Auguste-Victoria-Park Umkirch near Freiburg - statutes Queen-Auguste-Victoria-Park eV - goals + statutes. Retrieved April 14, 2017 .
  11. ^ State archive Sigmaringen, Freiburger Zeitung http://www.queen-auguste-victoria-park.de/article_gallery.php?s_category=2&categoryid=0
  12. ^ Queen-Auguste-Victoria-Park - Home. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Queen Auguste Victoria Park Umkirch near Freiburg - A masterpiece of garden art that sounds like music: The Queen Auguste Victoria Park by Werner Semmler - News. In: www.queen-auguste-victoria-park.de. Retrieved July 13, 2016 .
  14. ↑ http://www.queen-auguste-victoria-park.de/auslösungen_A94
  15. ↑ http://www.queen-auguste-victoria-park.de/fernsehhochzeit-im-park-der-queen_A103
  16. ↑ http://www.queen-auguste-victoria-park.de/queen-auguste-victoria-park-ist-drehort-fuer-eine-echte-fernseh-hochzeit_A10
  17. ↑ http://www.regionalia.de/umkirch/umkircher-ereignisse_A418
  18. ^ Badische Zeitung: Umkirch: A castle in the English country house style - badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved July 12, 2016 .
  19. ↑ http://www.queen-auguste-victoria-park.de/vielfalt-und-wissen-ist-reichum-baeume-sind-die-wunder-des-lebens-die-baeume-im-queen-auguste-victoria -park_A357
  20. ↑ http://www.badische-zeitung.de/umkirch/der-offene-park-weckt-ein-grosses-interesse--14967745.html

Coordinates: 48 ° 1 ′ 45.6 ″  N , 7 ° 45 ′ 17.9 ″  E