Rosenaupark

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Rosenaupark
Playground Rosenaupark (2017)
Playground in the Rosenaupark

The Rosenaupark or the Rosenau is a 3 hectare park in Nuremberg . It is located in the Kleinweidenmühle district to the west of the Fürth Gate in front of the walls of the old town in a depression that geologically appears as a dry oxbow lake from the nearby Pegnitz .

history

The beginnings

The Deutschherrenbleiche on a cadastral map , 1811

The Rosenau has had her name since 1828. The place was previously known under the name Deutschherrenbleiche. In the Middle Ages, the knights of the Teutonic Order built a fish pond with an island, on which the farm building, and operated the third large laundry bleaching facility in Nuremberg (next to the island of Schütt and the Neubleiche) . The pond itself was called the bleachers pond .

The first garden on the area of ​​today's Rosenau took place in 1815 by the royal foundation administrator Friedrich Wilhelm Bock. This garden was sold by his widow to Johann David Wiß in 1827, who further expanded the gardens and opened them to the public. It is generally assumed that it was his wife's name (Rosina Alexandrina) who inspired JD Wiß to name the area Rosenau . The well-known architect Carl Alexander Heideloff built a magnificent building for Wiß on the Rosenau estate in 1840, called the Alhambra . It was opposite the first Nuremberg train station on Fürther Strasse . The garden was developed into a spacious park with many small architectures, which on certain days was available to a paying public as an amusement park for the upper classes of the population.

In 1884 the park, a popular Nuremberg excursion destination for more than 50 years, was transferred to the Rosenau-Anlagen-Gesellschaft , which transferred the commercial use of the facility to a tenant. The Nuremberg city gardener Adolf Kowallek made plans for the redesign of Rosenau Park . In 1893 the company, which had become unprofitable, had to be sold to the city of Nuremberg, which expanded the promenade paths and fitted them with electrical lighting. Since then the park has been a public green area. Many postcards from the imperial era and up to the Second World War show that the Rosenau with its pond and small island was as popular as an amusement park as the Nuremberg city park.

The increasing development in the area had robbed the Bleichersweiher of its natural tributaries, so that its water surface decreased noticeably in the 19th century. After 1945 the pond had to be filled in. Today, where it was, you will find a meadow with a children's playground.

today

Children's playground in the Rosenaupark (August 2010)

Today the Rosenau presents itself as a park with large lawns and groups of partly old trees. The landmark of the complex is the minnesinger fountain designed by the sculptor Philipp Kittler , which was originally set up in a green area of ​​the nearby Prater complex on Obere Turnstrasse ( 1905), but was relocated to Rosenau after the Second World War.

Kiosk in the Rosenaupark
Café kiosk in the Rosenaupark

The small café kiosk in the north of the park offers drinks and snacks.

literature

  • Ute Burkart: The Rosenau, the Platnersanlage, the Colleggarten and the Cramer-Klett-Park. Four small parks from the 19th century. Origin, development and public structures until 1945 . Master's thesis in the Philosophical Faculty I of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, year no [1995].
  • Wiltrud Fischer-Pache: Rosenau . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 , p. 909 ( online ).
  • Helmut Häußler and Norbert Neudecker: The Rosenau . In: Hermann Glaser (ed.): Industrial culture in Nuremberg . Verlag Beck, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-406-09198-9 , pp. 217-220.
  • Marga Ruth Mead: The Rosenau . In: Gudrun Vollmuth: Gardens and Gärtla in and around Nuremberg. A reader not just for gardeners . Verlag Walter E. Keller, Treuchtlingen 1995, ISBN 3-924828-67-9 , pp. 43-47.
  • For around 150 years: “Die Rosenau”, Nürnberger Zeitung of July 14, 1962 [City Archives Nor. 3376.4 °].

Web links

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Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '4 "  N , 11 ° 3' 50"  E