Disc wood park

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Disk wood park on a map from 1879

The Scheibenholzpark or Volkspark im Scheibenholz was a park north of the Leipzig racecourse . It has been part of Leipzig's Clara Zetkin Park since 1955 .

location

The Scheibenholz Park was about 1.5 kilometers south-west of Leipzig city center in the district center-south and was bounded on the east by the Karl-Tauchnitz Street, the south by the racecourse Scheibenholz and to the west by the Elster flood . To the north it passed into the former Albertpark without any sharp borders .

history

Former chain bridge (1881–1928) over the then Pleißeflood bed from the Scheibenholzpark to the city forest "Die Nun" (now the Rennbahnsteg)

Part of the southern Leipzig floodplain forest was located here until the middle of the 19th century . It was named "Scheibenholz" after its owners in the 15th century, the tenant family Scheibe. In a meadow south of it ( Schimmels Wiese ) a racecourse was built in 1867.

In the second half of the 1870s, the area north of the racetrack was redesigned into a park according to plans by council gardener Otto Wittenberg and handed over in 1877 as the “Volksgarten im Scheibenholz”. Wittenberg's intention was to protect this area, as well as the Johannapark created by Wilhelm Theodor Seyfferth , from the overbuilding and thus to maintain the connection between the city and the alluvial forest.

After the Saxon-Thuringian industrial and commercial exhibition in 1897 , the site of which was north of the disk wood park, the König-Albert-Park (later Albertpark) was created there in direct connection to the disk wood park .

In 1955 the interconnected facilities of the Scheibenholzpark, Albertpark, Johannapark and Palmengarten were combined to form the Central Culture Park "Clara Zetkin" .

Todays situation

On the playground in the disk wood park

In April 2011, the city of Leipzig decided that the previous Disk Wood Park and the former Albert Park would become the Clara-Zetkin-Park. The name Volkspark im Scheibenholz was canceled, only the field name Scheibenholz is supposed to remind of the councilor family. The border to the former Albertpark is only partially known. The park stage, which was built in the 1950s, is part of the former Albertpark, although it is within the historical boundaries of the Scheibenholzpark.

One of the largest and most diverse children's playgrounds in Leipzig is located at the southeast end of the Scheibenholzpark. There are games for all ages. A water pump is also integrated with which water can be directed to the mill wheel or to the "water dump". With a sand excavator and a conveyor belt, sand can be transported up the hill for “shoring”. With the suspension railway you can get from the climbing frames to the water labyrinth or back using muscle power.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Disk wood park in the Leipzig Lexicon
  2. ↑ The disk wood on the website of the city of Leipzig
  3. ^ Park stage Leipzig
  4. ↑ Playground "Am Rennbahnweg" on the website of the City of Leipzig

literature

  • Hans-Christian Mannschatz, Erich Siegel: Park and Racecourse. In: The Leipzig Music Quarter. Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, 1997, ISBN 3-930433-18-4 , pp. 135-142

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 42.9 ″  N , 12 ° 21 ′ 37.9 ″  E