Rudolph's garden

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Rudolph's garden around 1825
“The horseshoe” around 1890,
built in Rudolph's garden from 1846–1848

Rudolph's garden (later also Riedel's garden ) was a popular coffee garden for the people of Leipzig in the first half of the 19th century .

Location and shape

It was opposite the Pleißenburg across the Pleißemühlgraben and joined the front part of Reichel's garden to the north . To the south was the damp castle meadow. In today's situation it is the area around Rudolphstrasse. The garden was one of the smaller of the Leipzig gardens.

In the gazebo from 1856 it is described as follows:

"Next to the Reichel'schen garden, the nun mill , there was a second garden, called the Rudolph'sche, a famous Jubilate Sunday mass garden in the old Franconian taste with box hedges, hidden niches, venerable avenues, greenhouses, orange and myrtle trees, decorated with what wet meadows closed with trees to the adjacent waters of the Pleiße below the Nonnenmühle and to the Kuhstrang weirs . "

history

In the 18th century, Rudolph's garden was outsourced from Apels' garden by the heirs of Andreas Dietrich Apels . The new owner turned it into the popular gastronomic garden form at the time. His son-in-law Franz Albert Riedel (1798–1847) continued the garden.

The garden was evidently also popular with the more upscale social circles. Several visits are documented for Robert Schumann . Goethe concluded his 14-day visit to Leipzig in May 1808 with a party in Rudolph's garden. In his novel Flegeljahre, Jean Paul names Rudolph's garden, which he knew from his time in Leipzig, as the place of fine morals.

In 1844, as part of his efforts to develop Leipzig's Westvorstadt , Carl Heine bought the garden from the Riedel couple and built a modern four-storey residential complex on it from 1846–1848 in the form of a horseshoe, generally known as “ The Horseshoe ”, facing the “An der Pleiße” promenade . The building was destroyed in World War II. Today the green space on Lurgenstein's footbridge is located here.

literature

  • Inner Westvorstadt - A historical and urban study . Edited by PRO Leipzig 1998
  • Ferdinand Stolle : Saxony's capitals. The new Leipzig along with a cross-headed inspiration over Dresden . Verlag Otto Wigand Leipzig, 1834, p. 76

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Jubilate Fair was the spring fair on the third Sunday after Easter.
  2. ^ A citizen of Leipzig . In: The Gazebo . Issue 46, 1856, pp. 628-631 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
  3. ↑ Georg Eismann (Ed.): Robert Schumann. Diaries Volume 1, 1827-1838 . German Publishing House for Music, Leipzig 1971 ( archive.org )
  4. ^ Goethe diaries with Zeno
  5. ↑ Jean Paul: Flegeljahre. Volume 1. Tübingen, 1804. P. 239 in the German Text Archive
  6. ^ Karl Heine in Leipzig reading

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 12 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 12 ″  E