Coburg rose garden
The Coburg Rose Garden is a green area in the Ketschenvorstadt. It is bordered to the west and south by Ketschendorferstrasse, to the east by Alexandrinenstrasse and to the north by Berliner Platz. The "heyday" of the rose garden was in 1929, when the German Rose Show was held there. To this day, the rose garden is a place of rest and relaxation for many city dwellers.
Zollbauernwiese
The property in front of the Ketschentor, a meadow, had been leased by a farmer who was also a city customs collector. This led to the name Zollbauernwiese for the area. In 1846 the city was able to acquire the property near the city from the ducal chamber. This was followed in some areas by the planting of bushes and trees and on the eastern edge in 1859 the creation of Alexandrinenstrasse, named after Duchess Alexandrine, which was built on with representative villas on the mountain side.
Deluge well
The flood fountain , a work by the Coburg artist Ferdinand Lepcke , was moved to the meadow area in 1906. The citizens of Coburg gave the copy of the flood fountain from 1898 for Viktoria Park in the then Prussian Bromberg , at an estimated cost of 30,000 marks, to their Duke Carl Eduard to commemorate the beginning of his reign. On November 12, 1906, the bronze casting of the monumental group of figures was inaugurated. The fountain and square were named after the duke. The flood well stood in the middle of the garden until 1962 and was then moved to the south side as part of the redesign of the entire complex.
rose Garden
In the 1920s, the honorary chairman of the Coburg Fruit and Horticultural Association Hahn had the idea of horticultural beautification of the site with a rose show, as in Dresden in 1926 and Liegnitz in 1927, as part of the association's centenary. With the support of Duchess Viktoria Adelheid , the city was finally convinced of the project. In particular, the 1st chairman of the horticultural association with 520 members, the main teacher Julius Popp, was involved in the realization of the event. On May 23, 1929, the exhibition grounds, the former customs farmyard redesigned in the style of an architectural space garden, was inaugurated as a rose garden. Almost 200,000 people visited the rose show with around 15,000 specimens by October.
Conversions
On Popp's initiative, the rose garden remained a permanent garden show under the supervision of the horticultural association until 1949, which could only be entered for an entrance fee. The park with its flower beds, special gardens, water features, from 1932 with a fish house, aviaries and a terrace restaurant with a free dance area developed into a popular meeting place in Coburg.
When the Coburg Congress House was built on the north side of the garden in the 1960s, the rose garden was redesigned. The winding and branched garden became an open and bright area, and large lawns were created, especially in the middle of the park. However, the rose garden lost its character because the renovation was very radical and many details were omitted. In 1987 and 1988 the rose garden was redesigned again by the garden architects Gerd Aufmkolk and Hirschmann, this time attention was paid to a natural and free design, which gave the garden a new character. Since then, there are more than 72 types of roses and dozens of other types of hedges, flowers, shrubs and trees. In addition, a palm house was built, aviaries were set up for exotic birds and a few smaller ponds were created on the north side in front of the deluge well.
Recreation center
The rose garden has served as an inner-city recreation area ever since . Despite the adjacent streets, the noise pollution is low and the green and dense growth of the outdoor plants also gives it a natural appearance. Numerous paths lead from the congress house to the palm house and the deluge fountain, on the sides of which there are rose frames and flower beds. The large meadow areas are often used as picnic areas in summer. The rose garden is freely accessible and free of charge. In early May 2008, the Flood Fountain Festival was celebrated for the second time in the history of the rose garden.
Rosengarten Congress Center
The congress house is located at the northern end of the Coburg rose garden. The building, which was built in 1962 according to plans by Hans-Busso von Busse and remodeled from 1985 to 1987, is a modern glass structure with a high level of transparency thanks to its frames and crystal fronts. Inside there are two large halls with up to 1100 seats as well as other conference and meeting rooms for congresses and other events. In the congress house there is also the congress house restaurant, which also offers visitors an outside terrace with a view of the rose garden.
Palm house
At the southern end of the rose garden next to the deluge fountain is the Coburg Palm House , which was opened on March 10, 1984 and has an area of 255 m². The building with a floor plan of 20 m × 15 m is divided into an anteroom with five aviaries, an orchid compartment, a cactus and succulent house and the main house. You can find different types of orchids, bamboo, cacti, palm trees and also animals such as birds and fish. The palm house is accessible all year round and entry is free.
Memorial plaques
There are also two memorial plaques in the rose garden , one for Johann Strauss , who was married in Coburg town hall and remained a Coburg citizen until his death. The villa in which he worked and lived stood on Alexandrinenstrasse until 1988. There is also a memorial stone from the Coburg Horticultural Society for Julius Popp, the initiator of the rose garden.
Planning for the future
The future of the rose garden and the congress center are uncertain. The New Inner City Concept (NIK) provides for a change to the Angers and these buildings, plans for an urban development competition include the demolition of the congress center and the redesign of the rose garden with the relocation of the flood fountain to the north side. When and whether these plans will be implemented has not yet been determined. The ideas competition for architects was concluded in May 2008.
literature
- Georg Aumann: On the history of the Coburg rose garden. In: Coburg history sheets. Issue 1-2, January-June 2001, ISSN 0947-0336 , pp. 3-21.
- Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: City of Coburg. Ensembles-Architectural Monuments-Archaeological Monuments . Monuments in Bavaria. Volume IV.48. Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-87490-590-X
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Coburger Zeitung, November 13, 1906
- ^ Coburger Zeitung, May 24, 1929
- ↑ http://www.coburg-kongress.de/images/download/broschuere-50-kongresshaus-web.pdf
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 10.2 " N , 10 ° 57 ′ 56.2" E