Hanau Castle Garden

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The six swans and their sister by Albrecht Glenz
City palace plan since the beginning of the 18th century. After the medieval parts marked in red were torn down in 1829, the prince's building formed the end of the park towards Schlossplatz .
Model of the garden in front of the Princely Building - as it was before it was destroyed
Memorial to Johann Winter von Güldenborn

The castle garden in Hanau is an inner-city park. It was laid out from 1760 to 1764 as the garden of the Hanau City Palace and redesigned from 1824.

history

18th and 19th centuries

The palace garden was laid out in 1766 by Countess Maria von Hessen-Kassel (1723–1772), regent of the County of Hanau-Münzenberg from 1760 to 1764. She drew on experiences from her homeland, England , and had an English bosket built around the oldest part of the Hanau City Palace , the medieval and early modern castle . The Hanauer Schlossgarten was thus one of the first English landscape gardens on the European mainland. After the death of Landgravine Maria, her son, Hereditary Prince Wilhelm of Hessen-Kassel, had the palace garden expanded in 1772. For this purpose, the grounds of the castle bastions north and east of the castle were redesigned.

The Kinzigarm , which now runs through the palace gardens, is not directly connected to the former moat, but rather was created as part of a redesign of the park. Only the inflow near today's Nordstrasse can already be seen on older plans, as it branches off from the river in front of the weir of the Herrenmühle . The process takes place today in pipes under the Heinrich-Fischer-Bad in the northwest, where it is directed back into the Kinzig. At the corner of Heinrich-Bott-Strasse and Eugen-Kaiser-Strasse, the railing of a bridge can still be seen, where the former castle moat merged into the moat of the Hanau city fortifications .

Under Elector Wilhelm II (1777–1847), the palace gardens were completely redesigned from 1824 onwards. It was enlarged, a pond was created and - as in Wilhelmsbad - a mountain of snails was raised . The planning for this was written by Wilhelm Hentze , head of the Elector's court gardens. The planning was then revised by Louis Meinicke at the request of Wilhelm II . After the medieval moated castle was demolished in 1829, the palace garden was redesigned again according to plans by Louis Meinicke. The current shape of the palace gardens is largely due to these two landscape gardeners.

20th century

After the Second World War , the bomb-damaged city palace was torn down and the area was added to the park. On the other hand, parts of the park were built on: from the 1950s by the Karl Rehbein School , in the 1960s by the Hanau community center and from 2001 to 2003 by a congress center.

The park was an integral part of the Hessian State Garden Show in 2002.

In the castle garden is today there translocated monument of Johann winter Güldenborn . In 2014, the bronze sculpture The six swans and their sister by Albrecht Glenz was installed in the area of ​​the central pond .

Plant population

The park has a rich old stock of trees, including several natural monuments , including a pyramid oak , ash , bald cypress , primeval sequoia and Austrian black pine .

literature

  • Claudia Gröschel: Wilhelm Hentze (1793–1874). A horticultural artist of the 19th century . Part 2: innovation and conservation . In: Die Gartenkunst  12 (1/2000), pp. 1–41 (7–9).
  • Anton Merk: City gardens. Castle garden in the old town . In: Anton Merk (ed.): Nature becomes culture. Garden art in Hanau. Hanau 2002, pp. 18-27.
  • Anton Merk: Hanau old town palace garden. In: KulturRegion Frankfurt RheinMain gGmbH (Hrsg.): Garden RheinMain. From the monastery garden to the regional park. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt 2006 ISBN 3-7973-0981-3 pp. 90f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gröschel, p. 7.
  2. ↑ Gröschel, p. 8.
  3. ↑ Homepage Congress Park Hanau .

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '21.6 "  N , 8 ° 55' 8.8"  E