Bad Godesberg city park
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The Bad Godesberg city park is the spa park of Bad Godesberg in the heart of the city.
Location and history
The Godesberg city park was built from 1880 in the style of an English landscape garden . The park grew to its present size through acquisitions of former villa gardens. It used to be divided into a public garden on the left and a city garden on the right of the then Gartenstrasse. In 1892 a Kurpark restaurant was built according to plans by the Cologne architect Josef Crones (1848–1934). In 1950 an interallied riding club ("Interallied Riding School)" with a riding hall and a stable building was built in what was then the city garden (Gartenstrasse 6) , which in 1957 were demolished again.
The park is right next to the city center. To the north, only separated by Kurfürstenallee, is the Redoutenpark . Both parks together cover an area of 8 hectares. To the south there is the five hectare Rigal'sche Wiese , which is named after the barons of Rigal-Grunwald.
Attractions
The core of the Redoute Park is the Redoute . The redoubt was built in the late classicist style from 1790 to 1792 under Elector Max Franz ; The architects were father and son Michael Leydel.
The dominant building in the city park itself is the city hall . Built in 1955, it became famous through the party congress of the SPD , which decided on the Godesberg program here .
To the east of the town hall there is an oval pond with a fountain. The surrounding trees and bushes come from almost every continent on earth. An oak that was planted by the Godesberg royal hussars in honor of Kaiser Wilhelm I is striking . A few meters further on, directly on Koblenzer Straße, a memorial stone commemorates the police superintendent Gerd Höllige who was murdered on July 28, 2002 while on duty.
There is a concert shell to the north of the town hall. The weather pillar is on the back . Built in 1876, the listed classical weather pillar is the oldest in Germany.
To the west of the town hall is the pump room , called "Kurfürstenquelle" since 1962. Next to it is the sculpture structure 1971 by the artist Paul Julius Geissler . The abstract figure was made in aluminum sand casting.
Further north are the tennis courts of the Grün-Weiss Godesberg club. Behind it in the northern part of the park along the street "Am Kurpark" there are a number of sights. The corner of Koblenzer Straße / Am Kurpark is adorned by a small round pond with a fountain. There is a crossroads next to it . The statue of the Heimatverein is located further in the direction of Redoute. The stone column shows various images from Godesberg's history.
The corner at the spa / Kurfürstenallee than flowers Rondell designed . Between this and the tennis courts is the bronze sculpture and fountain "Knabe an der Quelle" by the Latvian artist Naoum Aranson (1872–1943) from 1905. The fountain is a foundation of the Wendelstadt brothers. It stood on the site of the flower hall in front of the town hall until 1968.
Redoutenpark and Rigal'sche Wiese
The city park goes beyond the Kurfürstenallee into the Redoutenpark. This was laid out from 1820 and was given its current form of an English landscape park in 1856 by the gardener Konrad Wilhelm Nelle (1813–1902) for the new owner of the redoubt, Viktor Wendelstadt.
The Rigal'sche Wiese is not designed as a landscape park, but as a grassy open space. Next to it are the parking spaces of the town hall.
The Kurfürstenbad indoor swimming pool, which has now been closed, is located on Kurfürstenallee.
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Oldest weather pillar in Germany
Sculpture structure 1971 by PJ Geissler
Memorial stone oak of the royal hussars
Statue of the Heimatverein
Fountain at the corner of Koblenzer Straße / Am Kurpark
Wayside cross
Memorial stone for Detective Inspector Gerd Höllige
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References and comments
- ↑ today part of Koblenzer Straße (→ entry in Bonn street cadastre)
- ^ A b Friedhelm Schulz: The "Interallied Riding School" at Gartenstrasse 6 - From the confiscation of the property by the Allied occupation in 1950 to the demolition of the building in 1957 . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN 0436-1024 , Issue 46 (2008), Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2009, pp. 118-139 (here: p. 119 , 123).
- ^ Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb (= city traces, monuments in Cologne , volume 8). JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 2, p. 813.
- ↑ Horstheider man : Godesberger industrial history I . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV , ISSN 0436-1024 , Issue 48 (2010), Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Bad Godesberg 2011, pp. 96-134 (here: p. 127 ).
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 31, number A 4066