Rheinpark Golzheim

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Rheinpark with Victoria-Tower , Higher Regional Court and Regional Council in the background
View over Rheinparkwiesen to the northeast
Summer use of the Volkspark as a sunbathing and play area

The Rheinpark Golzheim is a park in Düsseldorf that was designed in 1906 as Kaiser Wilhelm Park by Walter von Engelhardt and further developed in the 1920s according to the principles of the Volkspark .

The park extends from the Pempelfort district to the Golzheim district for around 2.5 kilometers along the right bank of the Rhine. Its current design is closely linked to the conception of the 1926 urban development and health exhibition GeSoLei . It is characterized by spacious lawns, a promenade on an artistically designed bank protection wall made of natural stone and a larger, contiguous tree population along the Cecilienallee . The promenade offers one of the best views of the Düsseldorf skyline , the Rhine and the Rhine shipping . The lawns cover around 24 hectares and are used by sunbathers, picnics and barbecues as a sunbathing area on warm days. Walkers, dog owners, cyclists, joggers and ball athletes from all over the world can, however, also be found in wind and weather. Dog runs and some children's play areas are specially fenced off.

The entire complex has been a listed building since 2001 . On the evening of June 9, 2014, around 60 percent of the park's trees were destroyed by a thunderstorm with hurricane gusts that triggered the low Ela .

history

The area of ​​the Rheinpark was named Golzheimer Insel because of the temporary flooding by the Rhine . In the 19th century it was acquired by the city of Düsseldorf for the project of a second security port and the construction of a shipbuilding plant after it was discovered that the security port that existed at the time no longer met traffic requirements. However, these projects did not come to fruition. So only a landing site or a small port developed there as well as the location of the city slaughterhouse with the main entrance on Schäferstrasse, which was built there from 1874 to 1875 by the city master builder Eberhard Westhofen .

This area was drained and raised around 1900. The aim was to gain land for the Düsseldorf industrial and trade exhibition in 1902. Heinrich Lueg had been planning to re-plan the Golzheimer Insel as an exhibition site since 1898, based on an idea by the painter Fritz Roeber . The heaped terrain also served as an exhibition space for the 1904 International Art Exhibition and the Great Horticultural Exhibition with the Art Palace .

In 1906 it was designed as Kaiser Wilhelm Park according to plans by Walter von Engelhardt , director of the Düsseldorf garden authority. In 1913 the Great Exhibition 1915 - 100 Years of Culture and Art was planned on the site and construction began under the direction of Wilhelm Kreis . With the beginning of the First World War , the work was stopped.

Because the area was still at risk of flooding, it was raised again in 1925 in the course of preparing the GeSoLei and secured with a protective wall. After the GeSoLei , during which it was again built on by exhibition halls, the area was restored as a public park. Together with the permanent buildings of the GeSoLei designed by Wilhelm Kreis - the Rheinhalle , the Reichsmuseum , the Kunstmuseum am Ehrenhof and the Rheinterrasse - the Rheinpark Golzheim still makes a decisive contribution to the design of the banks of the Rhine, as a continuation of the old town front and as the counterpart of the early 20th century Century still young development of Oberkassel. This spatial unit was at times endangered by the reorganization plan Düsseldorf 1949 , which the traffic and urban planner Friedrich Tamms had developed for the reconstruction of Düsseldorf. Accordingly, the Rheinpark should be built over and carved out as an extension of Klever Straße by a main traffic axis in order to connect the districts of Pempelfort and Golzheim with the opposite Niederkassel by another Rhine bridge.

layout

Beer garden

Several steps down to the banks of the Rhine lie at the end of cross paths, each of which is aligned with an expressionist decorative vase made of shell limestone on the protective wall as a point de vue and which divides the spacious lawns into sections. At the southern end of the Rheinpark are the Rheinterrassen , an urban building complex with event rooms in a style somewhere between brick expressionism and neoclassicism . A few years ago this complex was expanded to the north with a modern hall extension. There are also large outside stairs and a ramp that lead to the banks of the Rhine, as well as terraces shaded by plane trees that serve as a beer garden in summer . The north end of the Rheinpark is dominated by the Theodor-Heuss-Brücke . Here, the bridge frames a landscape window that provides a view of the typical Lower Rhine river landscape of Lörick and Büderich over several kilometers .

The tree population of the Rheinpark is diverse: Along the road there is a chestnut avenue, at the edges of the playing and sunbathing lawns, willows, maples, plane trees, poplars, birches and other tree species are arranged in groups. In the meadows on Kastanienallee, large crocuses were recently planted, which from now on bloom every year at the end of winter as a wide purple band. Ring- necked parakeets , which swarm in the Rheinpark especially on summer evenings and perform their spectacular flight movements there, also attract the attention of visitors.

The meadow at the southern end of the Rheinpark is often used as a location for circus events; in recent years this has been that of Circus Roncalli . An open-air cinema has been built on the banks of the Rhine in the summer months for several years.

Robert-Lehr-Ufer

Ship landing stage on Robert-Lehr-Ufer

The Robert-Lehr-Ufer runs along the banks of the Rhine and below the park . It is named after the Lord Mayor Robert Lehr , under whose government in the 1920s the urban development of Düsseldorf into a modern city ​​was significantly promoted. There are moorings for passenger ships on this embankment , which are used by hotel ships , especially at the times of the major trade fairs . There is also the Golzheim sports harbor, which houses the facilities of various water sports clubs.

Art objects

A number of art objects contribute to the design of the facilities, including:

  • Flood Snake (1929), 25 m long steel sculpture by Richard Langer on the ramp of the bank protection wall that leads down to the Robert-Lehr-Ufer
  • five expressionistic ornamental vases made of shell limestone on the bank protection wall erected in 1928: Radschläger by Willi Hoselmann , Nibelungen by Ferdinand Heseding , earthworks by Ernst Gottschalk , gardening by Ernst Gottschalk and Rhine legends by Ferdinand Heseding (order from south to north)
  • Rhine boatmen around 1850 (1930s), life-size figure made of shell limestone by Emil Jungblut , erected in 1970 on a plinth of the enclosure at the beer garden on the north side of the Rhine terrace instead of groups of putti by Willi Hoselmann that were previously placed there and were destroyed in the Second World War
  • Großer Kopf (1984), sculpture made of baked clay and basalt lava by Trude Esser (1925–2015), installed on the edge of the Rheinpark opposite the Düsseldorf district government building (acquisition by the city of Düsseldorf at the major Düsseldorf art exhibition in 1990/91)
  • Plastic column (1963), 6 m high travertine sculpture by Karl Hartung , placed south of the Theodor-Heuss-Bridge

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The storm destroyed around 17,000 street trees in Düsseldorf . Article from June 11, 2014 in the portal derwesten.de , accessed on June 12, 2014
  2. ^ P. Schmitz: Commerce and Industry of the City of Düsseldorf . In: Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine . Volume 3, Düsseldorf 1888, p. 494 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Schlachthof Düsseldorf , website in the portal albert-gieseler.de , accessed on May 20, 2016
  4. ↑ Slaughterhouse with a description of the facility , in a report on the status and management of community affairs in the city for the year 1875, pp. 8-10
  5. ^ Susan Brooks: The urban planning concept of the Gesolei . In: Jürgen Wiener (Ed.): The Gesolei and the Düsseldorf architecture of the 20s . JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7616-1445-4 , p. 30
  6. ^ Website The exhibition history of the city of Düsseldorf: 1902: Industry and trade exhibition for Rhineland, Westphalia and neighboring districts combined with a German national art exhibition ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to the book by Stefanie Schäfers: From the Werkbund to the four-year plan. The exhibition Schaffendes Volk, Düsseldorf 1937 . In: Sources and research on the history of the Lower Rhine (Düsseldorfer Geschichtsverein), Volume 4, ISBN 3-7700-3045-1 , Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2001 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schaffendesvolk.sellerie.de
  7. ↑ Large exhibition 1915 , From 100 Years of Culture and Art , in administrative report of the state capital Düsseldorf from April 1, 1914 to March 31, 1919, p. 284
  8. ↑ Susan Brooks, ibid
  9. ↑ See corresponding illustrations in Werner Durth : Deutsche Architekten. Biographical entanglements 1900–1970. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-423-04579-5 , p. 352 f.
  10. ↑ Rolf Purpar: art city Dusseldorf. Objects and monuments in the cityscape. Grupello Verlag, 2nd edition, Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-89978-044-4 , pp. 105, 113, 130, 135
  11. ↑ Linus Wörffel: Lime and memory . Article in the portal index-magazin.com , accessed on April 21, 2015

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Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 36.3 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 4.7"  E