Uetersen Rosarium

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Entrance to the rosarium
View of the Uetersener Rosarium

The Rosarium Uetersen in Schleswig-Holstein is one of the oldest Rosarien Germany and one of the largest in northern Germany.

The first rosarium

The beginnings of this rosarium go back to 1909. This year there was the first rose show in Uetersen with the help of the Association of German Rose Growers . For the first time, roses were exhibited in a field near the harbor. Due to the great success of the event and the advocacy of the then well-known rose friend Friedrich Harms (1831–1909), the city provided rose growers with a field next to the Ludwig-Meyn-Gymnasium . So in 1913 the Kaiser Wilhelm Rose Garden was built on this site , which was named in honor of the 25th anniversary of the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II . The inauguration ceremony took place on June 15, 1913 with many guests from home and abroad. This park area was completely devastated on August 10, 1925 by a windpipe of the strength F3 . Reconstruction was only possible with great effort. The complex was later abandoned for reasons of space in 1933 and houses were built on.

The creation of the new rosarium

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Panorama view of the wedding island in the Uetersener Rosarium

As early as 1234 there was a mill pond with a water mill in Uetersen , which was owned by the Uetersen monastery. This pond threatened to dry out over time. In 1829 the mill pond area was afforested and provided with a water inlet from the Pinnau ; so the mill operation could be continued. In 1925 the city took over the water mill. It was leased for a few more years until it was demolished as part of the rosarium planning. In the years 1929 to 1932, the world economic crisis also made itself felt in Uetersen and also resulted in mass unemployment here . In order to contain this, an emergency program with voluntary work was decided in 1929. From 1932 onwards, the mill pond, which was artificially dammed up decades ago and now rotted, was weeded and sludge removed by laborious manual labor by the RAD . The mud was mixed with approx. 4500 cubic meters of sand and the surrounding area was filled with it. When the work was finished months later, nobody really knew what to do with the site. A short time later, the master gardener Ernst Ladewig Meyn and the famous rose growers Wilhelm Kordes Jr. and Mathias Tantau came up with the idea of ​​creating an even larger rose park because the other park was too small. In cooperation between the city of Uetersen and the Association of German Rose Friends , the plan was put into practice, so that the rosarium with 800 rose varieties, most of which came from the Kaiser Wilhelm rose garden, was completed in June 1934.

Today's rosarium

Today's rosarium was opened as part of a rose show on the occasion of the 700th birthday of the city on June 13, 1934. The rose show was the largest of its kind in Germany at the time. The event was misused for the propaganda of the National Socialists. The rosarium survived the following war years almost unscathed. In the post-war period, it even served the starving population as a vegetable and potato field. The first rose show after the war took place in 1951, followed by more in 1952 and 1956. In the meantime it has been redesigned several times in order to present the Federal Rose Show there in 1961 . Lovers and friends of roses from all over the world came to this event. In the following years the park was redesigned again and again with the help of the surrounding rose growers. In today's rose park, more than 30,000 roses and 830 different rose varieties in all color shades and scents are presented on seven hectares.

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  • The rosarium towards the city center

  • The rosarium in the direction of the hotel

  • The little mill pond

  • The greyhound dancer in the wind

  • One of the ways through the rosarium

  • Roses are often named after people they know

  • Information sign for the ADR rose test

  • Scent cloud , one of the excellent roses in the park

  • Memorial stone Ernst Ladewig Meyn

  • The first newly designed bed for the "fragrance garden"

  • A cormorant at the rosarium pond

  • A claw at the rosarium pond

See also

literature

  • 1934. German rose show leader. CHH, Uetersen in Holstein (1934)
  • Hanny Tantau, Hans-Peter Mühlbach (Ger.) And Carol Jesse (en) (Ed.): Rosarium Uetersen - The whole variety of roses in words and pictures . Heide: Boyens Buchverlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-8042-1279-4
  • Jule Kowalski: Rosarium . In: The Uetersen Lexicon . Schmidt & Klaunig, Kiel 2012 ISBN 978-388312-421-6 , pp. 111-123

Web links

Commons : Rosarium Uetersen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′ 1.6 "  N , 9 ° 40 ′ 11.3"  E