Rhododendron Park Small Bastion
The Rhododendron Park Kleine Bastei is a park in Rathen in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains . In the park, which was designed during the 1920s, there are around 30 different species or varieties of rhododendrons and some exotic tree species.
location
The Rhododendron Park is located in the health resort of Rathen in Saxon Switzerland , the German part of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains . It is located in Niederrathen, the part of the health resort on the right bank of the Elbe, on the hillside at the Kleiner Bastei. The small bastion is a hill with a viewpoint southeast of the Amselgrund , in contrast to the actual bastion to the northwest . The foothills of the park extend in the southwest to the steep drop into the Elbe Valley and in the northeast to the slopes of the Blümelgrund.
The two-hectare park, which is criss-crossed by small stairs and paths, is accessible to hikers from the direction of Waltersdorf or from Gamrig and from the Amselgrund. From the park on the high plateau, you have a good view of the surrounding rocks, including the Bastei and Mönch with the Neurathen Castle , Big and Small Gans and the locomotive . From the viewpoint Kleine Bastei in the south there is a view over the deep valley of the Elbe over to the Lilienstein .
history
Around 1870, Count Karl von der Recke began to plant the first foreign woody plants in a half-timbered house that was built around 50 years earlier and probably used for agricultural purposes. A branch of the Westphalian noble family von der Recke owned lands in the area in the 19th century. In 1894 the count had the house rebuilt and a farm building built right next to it instead of a barn.
In 1911, the Dresden urologist Karl Friedrich Keydel (born June 30, 1865 in Hartenstein ; † September 12, 1937 in Rathen) acquired the property and expanded the area in 1918 by purchasing additional plots in order to be able to create a park. Keydel, who grew up in nearby Hohnstein and was later a Crucian , was very interested in botany. On several trips, especially in the Alpine region, he collected rare plants, including many saxifrage species, which he planted in his park. Since 1918 a full member of the Natural Science Society ISIS in Dresden , Keydel also gave lectures on his Rathener Alpine Garden , which was reported in the Dresden press as early as 1922. In the years 1926 to 1929 the horticultural architect Baila Helmenreich (born March 4, 1902 in Krukienice; ⚭ approx. 1930 with Martin Gerson , † 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) converted this Alpinum into a spacious park on behalf of Keydels and laid out paths and stairs which are only partially accessible today.
After Keydel's death in the late 1930s, the municipality of Kurort Rathen acquired the property, which housed war refugees from Silesia in it in 1945 . In the time of the GDR , the building and the surrounding park served the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) as a vacation home. After the fall of the Wall , the park began to run wild due to insufficient maintenance. In the years after 2000 the community repaired the old stairs and paved some paths. In addition, she had dead plant material removed and a park maintenance concept developed by the Institute for Landscape Architecture at TU Dresden . In 2008 and 2009, the previously buried park pond and the paths in its vicinity were rebuilt. In addition, a natural playground and a covered seating area were created.
Keydel's former country house and its ancillary buildings have also been in municipal ownership again since 1990 and are listed as historical monuments . Plans made after 2000 to lease the complex to the Saxon Mountaineering Association and to set up a club house and a climbing club for children and young people did not come to fruition. In 2007 the house went back into private ownership and has been inhabited again since 2009 after a few years of vacancy. After a complete restoration, it has also contained several holiday apartments since 2012.
Special plants
The small bastion rhododendron park is a botanical attraction that is under protection. An inventory as part of a semester thesis by two Dresden landscape architecture students in 2003 showed that there are around 30 different species or varieties of rhododendrons or azaleas in the park . They can bloom from May to July. There are also other flowering shrubs such as laurel roses and unusual trees, including the Hinoki false cypress , the Sade tree and an old Kobushi magnolia . In addition to native trees, the stock also includes Douglas fir , Canadian hemlock and Japanese maple . A plaque next to Keydel's former country house provides information about botanical and trivial names of more than 100 registered plants and their locations.
Web links
- The rhododendron park on the official community website kurort-rathen.de
- Rhododendron Park and Small Bastion Rathen. Hiking tips in the Saxon Switzerland magazine
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rhododendron Park Rathen in Saxon Switzerland on umgebung-erkunden.de, accessed on May 17, 2012.
- ^ History of the Kleine Bastei holiday home on ibhh.eu, accessed on May 17, 2012.
- ↑ Karl Friedrich Keydel in the personal wiki of SLUB Dresden, accessed on May 17, 2012. ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Rhododendrenpark in Rathen on hm-noroc.de, accessed on May 17, 2012.
- ^ Rudolf Zaunick: A new alpine garden in Rathen , in: Dresdner Anzeiger , No. 317 of July 9, 1922, p. 2/3.
- ↑ Forgotten Biographies on Scheinschlag.de, accessed on May 17, 2012.
- ↑ Rhododendron Park on ibhh.eu, accessed on May 17, 2012.
- ^ Daniel Förster: Blossom Sea : Rathen cleans out his rhododendron park , in: Sächsische Zeitung , local edition Pirna / Sächsische Schweiz of May 20, 2009 (online at haus-gruebler.de, accessed on May 17, 2012 ).
- ↑ Heike Wendt: The old park of Dr. Keydel , in: Dresdner Latest News , edition of April 15, 2004, p. 6.
- ↑ Information about Haus & Park at ibhh.de, accessed on May 17, 2012.
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 25 ″ N , 14 ° 5 ′ 7 ″ E