Geyerswörth rose garden

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The Geyerswörth rose garden is located in the area of ​​the former Geyerswörth Castle Park in Bamberg in front of the Stadtbad (Geyerswörthstraße 5) .

history

With the acquisition of the Geyer property by the Bamberg Monastery, a park was created under Prince-Bishop Johann Georg I. Zobel von Giebelstadt , which was given the rest of the furnishings under the actual builder of the castle, Ernst von Mengersdorf . The park disappeared from the cityscape through the sale and parceling of the castle property due to the secularization . In 1936, the horticultural director Viktor Luster redesigned the fallow land in front of the municipal swimming pool. The rose garden was decorated with two fountains by the sculptor Hans Leitherer , the northern one with the statue Die Kauernde from 1938 and the southern one with Der Hockende from 1954. The garden fell victim to the construction of an underground car park and was restored in 1983 with a simpler interior.

literature

  • Norbert Haas: Bamberg Fountain 1984
  • The art monuments of Bavaria, Bamberg-bourgeois mountain town , page 560

Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 25.4 "  N , 10 ° 53 ′ 19.1"  E