Schöntal (Aschaffenburg)
The Schöntal Park is a landscape garden in the middle of the city of Aschaffenburg .
history
The Schöntal was originally created between 1440 and 1450 by the Elector of Mainz, Dietrich Schenk von Erbach, in front of the city fortifications as a zoo to supply the castle kitchen with venison and surrounded by a wall. One tower each stood at the height of today's roundabout on Grünewaldstraße and at the confluence of Kittelstraße, the so-called Black Gate. In the south of the zoo along today Würzburg street was also the empty moat limited, which was fed by Kühruhgraben ago.
Around 1530, a court kitchen garden was added to the zoo by the Elector of Mainz and Archbishop Albrecht von Brandenburg along today's plane tree avenue. For this purpose, the old zoo wall was torn down and a new wall with round towers was built around the courtyard garden.
Around 1780, under Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, the garden artist Friedrich Ludwig Sckell (1750–1823) transformed the zoo into an English landscape garden. The ruins of the Church of the Holy Grave of the former Beguine settlement were included in the design as accessories and a pond was created around it, which is fed by the Röderbach. After the hunting arsenal was relocated to the pheasantry, an orangery building was built on the same site in the late 18th century according to plans by Emanuel Joseph d'Herigoyen .
The northern part of the complex was used by the Bavarian state as a courtyard and vegetable garden until the 1950s. It then became the property of the city of Aschaffenburg, which also designed this area in the English style, removed the surrounding wall and laid out the wide footpath to the city gallery.
Facilities
The attraction in spring during the flowering period is the magnolia grove . If the summer weather is nice, the Schöntal concert begins on Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. near the ruins. On the eastern edge is the aforementioned former orangery , a hipped roof building with arched window doors and a utility wing connected at right angles. After being used as a cinema, the single-storey building now houses two restaurants with beer gardens and the cabaret in the courtyard garden . There is also a 1200 m 2 children's playground in the Schöntal with a water mud pit and climbing facilities, various sculptures (Hercules, Diana), and parts of the old city wall with the tavern tower can be seen.
Tavern tower
The Schenkenturm , also known as the witch tower or the watch tower , was built in the 15th century at the same time as the city wall. Dietrich Schenk von Erbach , whose family coat of arms can be found in the wall, had it erected in the course of the city's expansion. Historically, the tower was probably nameless, as there were more than 15 city towers in Aschaffenburg, most of which had no name. The city administration has chosen the name “Schenkenturm” in the draft resolution for the planning and transport senate, based on the owner and his coat of arms. The tower was popularly known as the "Ghost Tower" or "Brewery Tower". The tavern tower has a square base and is three storeys high. The upper floors with larger windows served as a dwelling for the tower keeper .
Church ruin
The ruined church of the Holy Grave , also known as the Schöntal ruin, is the ruin of the Beguine Monastery church, which was built between 1543 and 1545 and burned down in 1552 . This was built by Archbishop Albrecht von Brandenburg around 1500 in the "Tiergarten zu Aschaffenburg". In 1540 he made his partner Agnes Pless his abbess . Already in the Schmalkaldic War in 1546 and a few years later in the Second Margrave War in 1552, the building was largely destroyed. With the dissolution of the Beguine convent in Aschaffenburg Holy Sepulcher was left to decay. Since the church building only stood for a short time, the presence of the beguines in Aschaffenburg's local history has only been handed down in the zoo. The ruin was later included in the park design.
Earlier dimensions
On maps from the 19th century it can be seen that parts of the earlier city moats also belonged to the Schöntal. They moved from the bank of the Main through the valley in the castle garden and as a so-called open Schöntal along the former city wall to the so-called closed Schöntal, today's landscape garden. In the years after 1870, the open Schöntal was filled in during the construction of Friedrichstrasse and Weißenburger Strasse and newly laid out at ground level.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Children's playgrounds in the city center> Closed Schöntal on the website of the city of Aschaffenburg
- ↑ The Aschaffenburg Holy Sepulcher Church of the Beguines (PDF)
- ↑ Open Schöntal
- ↑ Open Schöntal in the first recording (1808-1864)
Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 33 ″ N , 9 ° 9 ′ 8 ″ E