Castle Park (Dirmstein)
| Castle Park | |
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 Castle park with pond from Koeth-Wanscheid Castle |
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| Data | |
| place | Dirmstein |
| architect | Johann Christian Metzger |
| Architectural style | English garden |
| Construction year | in the middle of the 19th century |
The castle park in the Rhineland-Palatinate municipality of Dirmstein is a restored English landscape garden from the first half of the 19th century and classified as an extensive natural monument with the list number ND-7332-516 . Together with the Koeth-Wanscheidschen Castle , to which it belongs, it is also a listed building .
Geographical location
The castle park is located northwest of the historical center of Dirmstein. In the north and east it is enclosed by the streets Am Zollhaus and Obertor , to the south-east the Koeth-Wanscheidsche Castle extends, while to the south-west and west it is adjacent to residential or commercial or agricultural areas.
Building history
The castle park belonged to the Koeth-Wanscheid Castle from its creation. Its owner, Gideon von Camuzi, expanded the palace area to the north beyond the previous local limits by buying land beyond the old village ditch from 1824 . There was also a kiln from the nearby brickworks, probably created a good half a century earlier by overbuilding an old stream . According to the data recorded in the original cadastre, the palace park in its current form must then have been laid out around 1830 and in any case before 1841.
The design came from the Heidelberg garden architect Johann Christian Metzger , who was one of the most important park designers in the Palatinate and Baden region from around 1820 until his death in 1852 . With his gift of being able to transform small areas into varied garden landscapes, he won over his clients in the middle class, which had come to prosperity after the French Revolution .
Even before 1900, the park began to become overgrown and lasted a good hundred years. At the end of the 1990s, the park was restored as faithfully as possible to the original as part of a publicly funded park maintenance work . The Aschaffenburg garden architect Peter Jordan was in charge . With his celebratory speech at the solemn release of the renovated grotto on May 11, 2012, the park maintenance work was officially completed.
investment
The original facility was around one and a half hectares in size, but over time it has lost around a third of its area in the western and southwestern edge areas. The former condition can mainly be deduced from a painting by Louis Coblitz (1814–1863), which he created in 1862 and which served as an essential template for the restoration. The painting also shows the sundial , which is still working today, which stands on a base and has the shape of a globe . It is read off by turning a bracket that can move across the longitudes towards the sun so that it casts the shortest shadow on the sphere.
The park presents all the design elements that are known from the manorial gardens and that are arranged in an ensemble of seemingly natural landscapes. Compared to the basement garden, which is around 40 years older, the area of the palace park does not appear static but modeled. A central meadow valley leads diagonally to the southeast towards the castle to end in the pond in front of it, in which the north facade is reflected. The pond and its drainage were created in the furrow of the former village moat. The Wiesental is enclosed by two hills. The eastern one was once crowned by a pavilion and covers the grotto, which is lined with lime crystals and was created when the park was laid out on the basis of the old kiln of the brickworks, the drainage shafts of which were found. Design elements such as small buildings, bridges and statues have not been preserved. Other details typical of butcher's gardens were integrated usable areas, and there was even a small vineyard . Pyramid poplars and other tall trees provided the vertical accents .
pond
Stream origin
Stream
Todays use
The castle park not only has general recreational value, but also serves as an atmospheric backdrop for cultural events. These are especially music performances that run under the title "Music in the Castle Park" . The castle park festival or wine festival in the park , which has already been held several times in midsummer, has also established itself as a crowd puller.
The Parkfreunde , a relaxed group of volunteers , have been looking after the park's appearance for years. Proposed in 2009, the group was awarded the 2010 for their commitment Bürgerpreis the district Bad Durkheim . The park friends donated the prize money for two benches that were set up in April 2012.
literature
- Georg Peter Karn, Ute-Konstanze Rasp: Castles and palaces in Dirmstein - Former Koeth-Wanscheidsches Schloss . In: Michael Martin (Ed.): Dirmstein. Nobility, peasants and citizens . Chronicle of the Dirmstein community. Self-published by the Foundation for the Promotion of Palatinate Historical Research , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2005, ISBN 3-9808304-6-2 , p. 458 f . (Foundation for the Promotion of Palatinate Historical Research, Volume 6).
- Georg Peter Karn, Ulrike Weber (arrangement): Bad Dürkheim district. City of Grünstadt, Union communities Freinsheim, Grünstadt-Land and Hettenleidelheim (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 13.2 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2006, ISBN 3-88462-215-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nature Conservation Administration Rhineland-Palatinate: Landscape Information System of the Nature Conservation Administration Rhineland-Palatinate. Retrieved September 30, 2013 .
- ^ Georg Peter Karn, Ulrike Weber: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate . 2006.
- ^ Georg Peter Karn, Ute-Konstanze Rasp: Castles and Palaces in Dirmstein - Former Koeth-Wanscheidsches Schloss . 2005, p. 458 f .
- ↑ bvo (author's abbreviation): The grotto shines again . In: Die Rheinpfalz, local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . Ludwigshafen May 14, 2012.
- ↑ Rolf Schlicher: The shadow clock . In: Die Rheinpfalz, local edition Frankenthaler Zeitung . Ludwigshafen May 3, 2014.
- ^ Herbert Lautermann and his friends in the palace gardens. bernd-eberle-dirmstein.de, October 15, 2009, accessed on May 6, 2014 .
- ↑ Park fans donate benches. bernd-eberle-dirmstein.de, April 28, 2012, accessed on May 6, 2014 .
Affenstein 10 | Affenstein 12 (courtyard gate) | Old cemetery | Old Town Hall | Oldest house | Bakehouse | Train station | Episcopal Castle | Field cross | Franz Rothermel's house | Three Kings Inn | Herrengasse 1 | Herrengasse 24 | Herrengasse 26 (components) | Herrengasse 28 | Herrengasse 49 | Hochheimer Hof | Jesuit courtyard with garden pavilion | Johann Adam Schopens Hof | Catholic school house | Basement garden with fencing school, manor house and bath house | Milestone No. 5 | Kirchgasse 2 (Scheitelstein) | Kirchgasse 21 | Kirchgasse 27 (Spolia) | Koeth-Wanscheidsche Castle with Castle Park | Kornhof | Laumersheimer Strasse 10 | Laurentiuskirche | Madonna | Marktstrasse 1 | Marktstrasse 9 | Marktstrasse 11 (courtyard gate) | Marktstrasse 13 (Hoftor-Keystone) | Marktstrasse 15 | Marktstrasse 17/19 | Middle gate 7 | Middle gate 22 | Neidkopf (Obertor 9) | New cemetery | Niedermühle | Obertor 1 (gate travel) | Obertor 5 (courtyard wall and gate) | Site fortification | Paulushof (gate system) | Prot. School house | Quadtsches Castle | Salzgasse 21 | Schlossgasse 2 | Forge | Spitalhof | Spur mill | St. Michael Pharmacy | Sturmfedersches Schloss with Michelstor and Schlossplatz | Brick hut
Information on all cultural monuments can be found in the corresponding list .
Coordinates: 49 ° 33 ′ 54 ″ N , 8 ° 14 ′ 39 ″ E