Rotehornpark

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The Rotehornpark, also known as the city ​​park , is the largest city park in the city of Magdeburg with an area of ​​200 hectares . The park belongs to the Network Garden Dreams Saxony-Anhalt .

location

The Rotehornpark is located on the Elbe island of Werder and can be reached from the city center via the bridge train with two tram lines, one bus line and by car. Pedestrians can also use two other bridges, the Sternbrücke from the west bank and the bridge at the waterfall from the east bank. There is also a ferry connection for pedestrians and cyclists from Magdeburg-Buckau . There is a large parking lot at the Sternbrücke on the west bank of the Elbe. Additional parking spaces are available in the area of ​​the town hall directly on the island. A dense network of paths opens up the park in all directions and also leads directly to the southern tip of the Werder Island.

history

City hall, observation tower and museum ship Württemberg
Skatepark opened in 2013

Around 1870 the city of Magdeburg decided to set up a park on Werderinsel. To do this, she bought six hectares of meadow land in the south of the island from a merchant. Magdeburg's gardening director Paul Viktor Niemeyer was commissioned to design the park . From 1871 to 1874, promenade paths were laid out and trees and bushes were planted. From 1898 the park was expanded to include the previously unused areas in the south and east of the island to its present size under the direction of Gottlieb Schoch, Niemeyer's successor. Schoch created an extensive and generous park landscape emphasizing the floodplain character of the area.

In 1908 the Taube Elbe , an oxbow lake, was extended to a lake in a section, which was named " Adolf-Mittag-See " after the financier of the project, the Magdeburg businessman Adolf Mittag . At midday, a “temple” was built on the Marieninsel in the lake, also with financial means . With the involvement of the unemployed, an avenue with four rows of linden trees was laid out in the southern part of the park after 1918, which is now called Heinrich-Heine-Weg. At the same time, Fort XII , which was formerly part of the city ​​fortifications, was converted into a natural theater.

From the 1920s the park was increasingly used for exhibitions. On the occasion of the Central German Exhibition for Settlement, Social Welfare and Work in 1922, the Sternbrücke was built, over which a tram line also led directly into the park. For the German Theater Exhibition in 1927 , the architects Johannes Göderitz and Wilhelm Deffke created an exhibition center with a town hall , exhibition halls and a 60-meter-high observation tower . The exhibition grounds and the Sternbrücke fell victim to the Second World War in 1945 . While the town hall was restored after three years of construction in 1966, the Sternbrücke could only be rebuilt in 2005. In 1969 the former exhibition halls were also replaced by new buildings, including the so-called Hypar shell, a four-part support structure in shell construction.

From 1955 to 1967 the Magdeburg pioneer railway operated in Rothornpark . In the 1980s the name Kulturpark Rotehorn was in use.

Large parts of the park are regularly flooded when the Elbe floods, the last time in 2013.

At the end of 2013, a modern skate park was opened near the observation tower and the town hall.

Name origin

The word horn probably means swamp . This swamp is said to have belonged to the Rode family, i.e. Rodescher swamp .

The legend of the Red Horn

When Buckau was still a poor village, there was a castle there that was commanded by a brave knight named Wilfried. This often roamed in the forest. One day after he had been out hunting for a long time, he lay down tired on the bank of the Elbe . Suddenly he heard miraculous music and saw a precious boat in the form of a giant clam being pulled by two swans . In the boat sat a maiden in a robe made of silver fabric and studded with precious stones. The maiden had a wreath of reeds and water roses in her golden hair. The knight believed it was a dream, but when he got up to go on his way, he found that he was not dreaming. The maiden beckoned the knight over and offered him a place in the boat. After the knight entered the boat, the boat drove to the shore of an island in the Elbe. The two walked through the dense forest of the island until they reached a clearing. The maiden sat down on a moss bank and the knight sat down at her feet.

The virgin revealed that she was Elwine, the ruler of the Elbe. From time to time the human figure could take on and leave its water palace to dwell on the upper world. As long as he never mistrusts her, he should be her husband. Should he ever not trust her, she must part from him for ever. The knight is happy to take the oath. When it started to get dark, mermaids came from all sides and performed dances and said a song:

When there is deep silence all around,

We quietly rise from the water,
When the splendid night shines all around,
No sound disturbs the nocturnal silence,
Then we slip softly and ghostly
to the green rain
To the flowery valley;
In the dark grove by
the moonbeam
We lead the nightly dance
And swing
And loop
And nestle
And bend,
funny
And fragrant
On a green wreath
And turn
And float
And blow
and weave

In magical dance

The water fairy said goodbye to the knight on the beach of the Elbe. Upon a horn blow in her red conch, the boat reappeared and drove the knight back to the home bank. Since that day the knight has met the water fairy almost every day on the island and spent his happiest hours there. One day, however, Elwine asked her husband to leave earlier than usual, because today she would meet with her sisters, the rulers of the Saale , Unstrut and Elster and no mortal should be present at this meeting. With a heavy heart Wilfried went to the bank, but since he had doubts, he returned to the clearing after a short time. In the clearing he saw the four sisters sitting in a circle. As he entered the clearing, the nurses heard a loud scream and a bright light blinded him. When he could see again, the four were gone. Then he remembered his oath never to distrust Elwine and hurried to the bank with a sound and called the name of his lover in vain. However, he received no answer, whereupon he felt despair and threw himself down on the bank, where he fell asleep exhausted. The next morning he hurried back to the clearing, hoping to see his beloved one more time, but in vain. To his delight he found the red conch and blew into it, but nothing happened. In mourning, Wilfried turned home with the red conch shell in his luggage.

From that day on the knight lived quietly and withdrawn in his castle. However, he spent a lot of time at the point where the boat had once appeared to him for the first time. after he had resigned his office in old age, he had a house built in the clearing of the island. He placed the red conch shell over the door of the house. Here he spent his last days calmly and peacefully. According to his will, he was buried next to the house on the island. Fresh flowers were found on his grave mound almost every day until the grave disappeared and a spring gushed out in its place .

Events

From 2007 to 2012 the rock festival "Rock Im Stadtpark" took place in the Rotehornpark in summer, which attracted thousands of visitors to Werderinsel. In 2013 the festival took place under the same name in a covered venue.

Since 2015 the “Rund um den Adolf-Mittag-See” cycle race has been held annually in the city park. In several age groups, the Adolf-Mittag-See is circled over a distance of 2.2 km. Start and finish are at the Albinmüller tower.

Places to visit

Marientempel at Adolf-Mittag-See
and display information about the image
Panorama of the Adolf-Mittag-See

literature

Web links

Commons : Rotehornpark  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magdeburg parks . Retrieved October 20, 2013
  2. ↑ Rotehorn Park under water . Volksstimme, June 8, 2013, accessed October 20, 2013
  3. ↑ W. Leinung and R. Stein Full: From Magdeburg legend and history . Julius Namann Publishing House, 1894.
  4. ↑ Culture tip of the day: Rock im Stadtpark is moving to Inside the Factory , Volksstimme, September 28, 2013, accessed on October 20, 2013.
  5. ↑ Roland Schulz: Around the Mittag-See before the third edition. In: Volksstimme.de. June 2, 2018, accessed August 10, 2018 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 3 "  N , 11 ° 38 ′ 35.2"  E