Council servant garden

Council servant garden
Park in Kiel
View from the church tower of the Nikolaikirche over the Kleiner Kiel and the Ratsdienergarten (around 1900)
Basic data
place	Kiel
District	Old town
Created	1934
Newly designed	1987
Surrounding streets	Lorentzendamm, Jensendamm, Dänische Strasse
Buildings	Groth Monument, Monument Wik
use
User groups	Pedestrians , leisure
Technical specifications
Parking area	approx. 20,000 m²

The Ratsdienergarten is a green area in the center of the Schleswig-Holstein state capital, Kiel . It is located between the Kiel Castle and the Little Kiel .

history

The park has been called the Council Servant Garden since 1938 in memory of the gardens that used to exist there and were tended by the council servants who lived nearby. The area of ​​the old gardens was expanded to around 20,000 m² in 1869 by filling in the swamp area at the eastern end of the Kleiner Kiel.

Buildings and sculptures

• the monument to the poet Klaus Groth, created by Heinrich Missfeldt in 1912
• the 1982 sculpture WIK by Hans-Jürgen Breuste in memory of the Kiel sailors' uprising in November 1918
• the sculpture Approach II by Bernd-Dietrich Stolte , which was installed there in 1984
• the sculpture Berg -teile from 1987 designed by Susan Walke
• the six busts of the Kiel Nobel Prize winners created by Jörg Plickat in 2015

photos

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  Ratsdienergarten in spring 2000

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  The Young Stage for the Kiel Week in the Ratsdienergarten 2015

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  View from Lorentzendamm over the Ratsdienergarten 1895

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  Klaus Groth fountain by Heinrich Missfeldt

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  Wik sculpture in memory of the Kiel sailors' uprising

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  Busts of the Kiel Nobel Prize winners

Web links

Commons : Ratsdienergarten  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kulturspuren Düsternbrook - Ratsdienergarten

Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 33.2 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 26.5 ″  E