Robert Koch Park (Leipzig)

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Parkschloss by Arthur Johlige , 2016

The Robert Koch Park is a 1,913 completed park in Leipzig district Grünau-Ost , which is available since 1984 for the public and their terrain Robert Koch Hospital as a branch of the Hospital of St. George is located. The park is to become a culture, leisure and education center for the residents of Grünau; the renovation is to begin in 2021.

Size and location

The approximately 25 hectare park with hospital grounds is located on the southeastern outskirts of Grünau and borders on Kleinzschocher here . The dimensions of the entire park are around 650 × 650 × 250 × 750 meters . North it is the Grünauer Allee limited, to the east by the street at the park , to the south by Nikolai Rumyantsev -Straße and southwest by the Schönauer Street . The official address is 100 Nikolai Rumyantsev Street.

prehistory

Plan 1913 (not north)

In 1888 the Leipzig entrepreneur Rudolph Sack set up an agricultural test station for his agricultural machinery factory on the corner of Schönauer and Alte Salzstrasse . This stretched with about 13 hectares to today's street at the park and was used for testing and presentation of the manufactured devices. For this purpose, an artificial irrigation and drainage network was created under the site and a 500-meter-long double-lane track system for light railways and threshing locomotives was created on top of the facility. In the northern part of the experimental station there was an estate that was equipped with stables for around 100 cows and pigs , a barn , a machine house , apartments for the farm workers and gardens for fruit and vegetables .

history

Between 1910 and 1913, on the initiative of Rudolf Sack's son Paul Sack, the estate around the experimental station was expanded into the representative country estate of the Sack entrepreneurial family with a total area of ​​25 hectares. In 1988, Wolfgang Grundmann listed the total area of ​​the park as 15 hectares. The Leipzig architects August Hermann Schmidt and Arthur Johlige were responsible for the designs of the park and the buildings. The park castle - also called Sack's villa or country house - and the main entrance portal go back to Johlige . In addition, there were greenhouses and garden houses , winter gardens , a bowling alley , several sports fields , two ponds and man-made streams , a swimming pool with slide and diving board , pavilions and a small wildlife park in the original complex . Linden , oak , yew , maple and rhododendron belonged to the trees and shrubs in the landscape park .

View 1913

The park palace to the northwest was the main building of the park and is a two-storey building with a curved mansard roof and symmetrical window arrangement . In front of the center of the building is a portico to the north and a column- supported rotunda to the south towards the park side . The largest room in the building is a ballroom in the neoclassical style that extends over both floors . The hall, which is mainly lined with wood, is characterized by pilasters with volute capitals on the long sides, as well as a slightly vaulted coffered ceiling with flower paintings and large chandeliers .

View 1913

After the referendum in Saxony in 1946 , the site was transferred to the city of Leipzig in 1947. On June 23, 1948, after renovation work in the park castle, a tuberculosis sanatorium with initially 40 beds was opened. With the incorporation of further buildings on the park area, a hospital for tuberculosis monitoring with a total of 182 beds was created in 1951 . After the bed capacity was expanded to 257 in the previous year, the house functioned as a district hospital for lung diseases from 1955 . In 1960, work began on a new building on the eastern side of the park, taking care that listed facilities and buildings in the park were not impaired. Numerous drainage works had to be carried out on the site , pumping stations and a boiler house had to be built. The new building with 184 beds was inaugurated on October 20, 1962, and on May 1, 1963 the hospital was named Robert Koch Clinic . The park lock itself no longer functioned as a hospital from 1972 onwards, until the fall of the Berlin Wall it was used by the District Academy of Health and Social Services . Since 2000, the modernized Robert Koch Clinic has been a branch of the St. Georg municipal clinic with a variety of treatment focuses; the Park Castle can be rented as an event location.

Entrance to the experimental station, 1913

The agricultural test property on the site was used as Volksgut Kleinzschocher until the building was demolished in 1977 , and the nationalized Sack's successor VEB Bodenarbeitungsgeräte also used the facility as a test site. Until the 1990s, the only remnant of the experimental property was the north-eastern entrance to the park, today located near the S-Bahn Central Germany station at Leipzig-Grünauer Allee . The ruinous, medieval -looking castle - like walls with towers , gate and battlements were cleared by the youth club in Grünau in 1981 in order to have their headquarters there. In 1984 a private operator was awarded the contract to operate the building as a park restaurant with the preservation of the gatehouse. However, the building deteriorated in the years to come.

In September 1979, the first found in the park Leipzig sculptor - plein air rather than a national sculpture workshop in the open. In 1982, in connection with the growth of the new Grünau district, the city of Leipzig decided to open the park's extra-clinical area to the public. That happened on October 5, 1984, and the facility was named Robert Koch Park . Seven sculptures , which were created in 1985 as part of the 3rd International Sculptor Plainair on the Agra site , were placed in the Robert Koch Park.

Since 2016 there has been an annual urban series of events called Culture in the Schloßpark - as measure 2.2.3 “Qualification of the Robert Koch Park for public use” of the Leipzig-Grünau 2030 district development concept.

Protected individual monuments on the site (selection, status 2014)

Web links

literature

  • Rud. Bag. Leipzig-Plagwitz. 1863-1913. Life story of the founder, development and status of the work . Meisenbach Riffarth & Co., Leipzig 1913, SWB online catalog 515225606 ( digitized version of the Leipzig University Library , accessed on June 18, 2019).
  • Wolfgang Grundmann: History about Grünau. A walk through the history of Leipzig's youngest district . 2nd, revised edition. Kulturbund der DDR, Gesellschaft für Heimatgeschichte Leipzig, Leipzig 1988, DNB 943514746 , pp. 28–31.
  • Grünau settlement. Kirschbergsiedlung. A historical and urban study . Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 1996, DNB 950304735 .
  • Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Robert Koch Clinic . Ed .: Robert Koch Clinic, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-932900-04-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Rometsch: City of Leipzig takes over Robert Koch Park - the 15 hectare Robert Koch Park is to become a culture, leisure and education center for the residents of Grünau. The city of Leipzig is also renovating the splendid Villa Sack. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online portal, February 26, 2020. Accessed March 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Rud. Sack 1913, p. 36.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Wolfgang Grundmann 1988, pp. 28-29.
  4. ↑ http://www.gruen-as.de/1997/08/index.html - accessed on August 9, 2019
  5. ↑ Grünau settlement. Kirschbergsiedlung 1998, p. 5.
  6. ↑ http://www.gruen-as.de/1997/08/index.html - accessed on August 9, 2019
  7. ↑ Arnd Ballin: History of the Robert Koch Clinic . In: Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Robert Koch Clinic 1998, pp. 8-14.
  8. ^ Robert Koch Clinic . In: Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z , ed. from Pro Leipzig. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 505.
  9. ^ Robert Koch Clinic (Grünau location of St. Georg Clinic). In: St. Georg Hospital. Retrieved June 21, 2019 .
  10. ↑ VILLA 1910 in Robert Koch Park. Retrieved June 22, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Grünau settlement. Kirschbergsiedlung 1998, p. 46.
  12. ↑ Wolfgang Grundmann 1988, p. 30.
  13. ↑ http://www.gruen-as.de/2014/36/artikel2.html - accessed on August 9, 2019
  14. ↑ Sales and Press Service (VPD) Leipzig: Grün-As - district magazine for Leipzig-Grünau and the surrounding area , No. 7/2019, title page “Robert Koch Park: Culture and History” and page 7 “A castle in Grünau”. Source: template (online query on August 9, 2019 at http://www.gruen-as.de/index.php : edition is not yet available as a pdf)
  15. ↑ Object doc. No. 09263613. (PDF; 1.7 MB). In: Cultural monuments in the Free State of Saxony. State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, accessed on June 20, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 4 "  N , 12 ° 17 ′ 58"  E