Ruhwaldpark
| Ruhwaldpark | |
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| Park entrance on Spandauer Damm | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Berlin |
| District | West end |
| Created | 1867-1868 |
| Newly designed | 1936-1942, 1950 |
| Surrounding streets |
Ruhwaldweg (north) , Spreetalallee (east) , Spandauer Damm (south) , Nelkenweg (west) |
| Buildings | Arcade |
| use | |
| User groups | Foot traffic ; leisure |
| Technical specifications | |
| Parking area | 101,801 m² |
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The Ruhwaldpark (also Park Ruhwald called) is located in the Berlin district of Westend in street square Ruhwaldweg , Spreetalallee , Spandauerdamm and Nelkenweg.
history
The park is located on the site of the former Spandauer Berg, which as a ground moraine is assigned to a plateau of the Teltow . The area rises sharply towards the south and is at its highest point around 30 meters above the Spree . In the 1860s, the councilor and magazine publisher Ludwig von Schaeffer-Voit acquired an area of around 5.8 hectares on the grounds of today's park . On his behalf, the German architect Carl Schwatlo built a classicist villa, Ruhwald Castle , in 1867 and 1868 . He placed the villa directly on the edge of the slope, giving Schaeffer-Voit a far-reaching view over the Spree, the Havel and up to Lake Tegel . His head gardener Duckstein created a landscape park with a beech forest and North American conifers on the walled area . On the western edge of the park, Duckstein built an artificial mountain range from boulders and had an angel placed on it. It was intended to commemorate Schaeffer's son, who died of cholera and was to be buried here. However, Schaeffer-Voit did not realize these plans, but sold the property to the entrepreneur Johann Hoff as early as 1872 after a neighborhood dispute . A year later, under the direction of the architect Prater, he built the Kavaliershaus with an arcade . The area to the west of this site was acquired in 1884 by the Bavarian brewer Conrad Bechmann, who had been running a bar on the Spandauer Berg since 1840, the Spandauer Bock and, since 1854, the Spandauer Berg brewery adjacent to the newly acquired site. Under the direction of the architect Alfred Schrobsdorff , Bechmann built - also on the edge of the slope - in 1892 and 1893 a villa in the Renaissance style . In 1924 , Leberecht Schmidt built a villa for Ida Rheinberg in the park that was also laid out , which is currently used as a day-care center. The park changed hands several times in the following decades and became the property of the city in 1924, other sources speak of 1925. In 1936 the city also bought the adjoining property of the brewer. At the urging of the National Socialists , the Berlin gardening director Josef Pertl had the Ruhwald Castle and Villa Bechmann torn down on the now twelve hectare area with the help of Polish and Jewish slave laborers and created the Volkspark Ruhwald with a pond at its deepest point . After the end of the Second World War , the city also tore down the damaged Kavalierhaus. In 1987 the district put the park under a preservation order .
Buildings and natural monuments
In addition to the Villa Rheinberg, which was used as a daycare center, the outside staircase with the arcades and two busts of Karl Cauer have been preserved from the original buildings . They show the Kommerzienrat and his wife Margarethe. The original view of the Havel and Spree has been lost due to the now taller trees. Behind the pillared hall is a sculpture by the sculptor Ernst-Otto Eichwald from 1963 with the title Pelican couple . A pedunculate oak and a copper beech are protected as natural monuments .
literature
- Willy Bark: Chronicle of Alt-Westend. Mittler, Berlin 1937 (modified reprint: Edition der Divan, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-925683-00-3 ).
Web links
- Historical photos of the park , website of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district office of Berlin, accessed on November 16, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Charlottenburger Kalksteinfelsen , website flanieren-in-berlin.de, accessed on November 16, 2014.
- ↑ Bark 1937, p. 17.
- ^ Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf: Grünanlagen - Park Ruhwald , website of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district office of Berlin, accessed on November 16, 2014.
- ^ Ruhwaldpark , website of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein e. V., accessed on November 16, 2014.
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '26 " N , 13 ° 15' 32.1" E