Dieskau Castle Park
The Castle Park Dieskau is the Schloss Dieskau surrounding park in the municipality Kabelsketal belonging village Dieskau . The facility is one of the parks of the garden dreams of Saxony-Anhalt .
location
The park is located approx. 7 km southeast of Halle (Saale) in the Saale district . It extends over 67 hectares southwest of the Dieskau Castle and includes the large mill pond . Most of the parking area is owned by the municipality of Kabelsketal.
history
The park was laid out from 1778 to 1784 in the style of an English landscape garden by Johann George Gottlieb Schoch on behalf of Carl Christoph von Hoffmann . The Wörlitzer Park was the model . Initially, Hoffmann was involved in the park design and was advised by Prince Franz von Anhalt . He recommended Schoch, who was only 20 years old, as a landscape gardener. Previously there was a largely treeless and swampy area at this point.
The park had various ponds, canals, monuments, wooden bridges, an integral bath house and buildings typical of the park. Several objects were kept in a Chinese style, such as an arch bridge, a tea house and a water house in the Great Mill Pond. The floodplain area of the Reide river was included in the park design . The river also fed the canals. A network of paths was created. Lines of sight led to prominent points on the facility.
On the north and east sides of the park, some trees of non-native origin were planted. The aim of combining the beautiful and the useful is represented by the three orchards that are now under nature protection : the Pfingstanger in the north of the park on Reidebach, Meiers Höhe and the Kirschberg in the east. The Alder Quarry on the north bank of the Großer Mühlteich is also one of the protected natural monuments in the park.
The facility was praised by contemporaries. She is said to have represented the spirit and taste of the Enlightenment, but at the same time also paid homage to sensitivity. The park's attention was increased when Hoffmann was appointed Chancellor of the University of Halle in 1786. Professors and students came to Dieskau as guests, including Johann Reinhold and Georg Forster and Friedrich Schleiermacher . On July 3, 1799, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III stayed. with his wife Luise at the Dieskau castle and the park.
After Hoffmann's death, who died childless, his nephew Carl August von Hoffmann took over the park. In the middle of the 19th century, the von Bülow family ran the property until it was expropriated in 1945. Then the facility fell into disrepair. Recultivation began in 1993. In the summer of 1999 the Friends of Park Dieskau was founded .
Facilities, monuments and works of art
Only a few of the original monuments and buildings in the park have survived. The orangery on the west wing of the castle is in ruins. In the years after 1999, however, increased attempts were made to restore or reproduce historical monuments that no longer exist.
The park is opened by a so-called pleasure ground, which a brook crosses at its lowest point. This term refers to a garden plot close to a building in the English landscape garden that has more design activities than the adjacent park. The monuments formerly erected here are all lost. However, a replica of a destroyed Flora statue was placed on the remaining foundations .
Hoffmann had a copy of the small sculpture Amor created by Martin Gottlieb Klauer for the Tiefurt Park around 1782 as a nightingale feeder set up in his park , but it is no longer there either. In 2007, the sculptor Ulrich Janku created a replica that was placed on the old square.
The Apollo Belvedere, kept in the Vatican Museums , is one of the most famous works of art of antiquity, of which there are numerous reproductions. The Dieskauer Apollo was designed by the art dealer Carl Christian Heinrich Rost and in 1784 on the occasion of a visit by Prince Heinrich of Prussia by Carl Christoph v. Hoffmann inaugurated. Since the sculpture was lost in the 19th century, it was replaced by a sandstone replica in 2008 .
The Teschen Peace Column was erected around 1781 in honor of the Treaty of Teschen , which ended the War of the Bavarian Succession in which Prince Heinrich of Prussia , Carl Christoph von Hoffmann's employer, took part. The column with the illegible inscription Dem Frieden, d. May 13th, 1779 could be recovered and re-erected in 2004 for the 225th anniversary of this event after a new sandstone plinth was made.
The column that the lord of the castle dedicated to his father was also recovered and put back up. The so-called "Father Hoffmann Vase" on the column was recreated in 2004. The components of the Hoffmann monument in the form of an obelisk on Meier's height, which the nephew and heir of the park founder, Carl August von Hoffmann, dedicated to his uncle after his death in 1801, are also authentic . The column as well as the obelisk bear inscriptions that remind of the park founder as well as his father.
In 2008, Ulrich Janku made the Meier urn , the lost memorial for the Halle Enlightenment philosopher Georg Friedrich Meier , based on a contemporary copperplate engraving . Meier was a teacher and friend of the lord of the castle, who had the monument erected on the hill named after him after his death in 1777.
The Goldhagen Obelisk is one of the few almost undamaged works in the park. Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Goldhagen was a doctor, but also a zoologist, natural historian and collector and was one of the friends of the park's founder, Carl Christoph von Hoffmann. The monument is considered the park's landmark.
The Lyrische Baumkreis is located on the north-east bank of the Großer Mühlteich , also known as the "family tree of the garden" in Hoffmann's time. With the poem boards attached to the tree trunks, he gives an impression of the burgeoning literary cult of friendship of the 18th century.
In addition to the restoration of historical monuments, the association also endeavors to put modern works of art in the park. The east gate with its bell made of oxidized steel by metal sculptor Jörg Bochow from 2006 is intended to be a reminder of the Far Eastern buildings erected in the park.
The former Chinese tea house from 1784 was rebuilt in the form of a steel-framed walk-in sculpture that was inaugurated in 2014 , also made by Jörg Bochow. It stands at the end of the pleasure ground on the field stone foundations of the historic tea house, which have formed the basis for a grotto with a viewing platform since 2010.
On the east bank of the Großer Mühlteich you will find a double pair of bronze footprints by Lena Zehringer and Irmela Gertsen from 2000, which were set into the ground next to a pair of trees, a silver poplar and a red beech . Together, the ensemble forms the Elderly Lovers Station on the park adventure trail .
Also on the east bank of the Great Mill Pond, a board with a drawing embedded in acrylic glass gives an idea of the appearance of the former Otahitian bathhouse , which once stood on a pile construction in the pond. By aligning the drawing, the water house is projected back to its former location in the pond. The panel is one of a series of show installations showing historical buildings that no longer exist.
Picture gallery
Pleasureground with the Flora statue
Big mill pond
Goldhagen Obelisk
Cupid as a nightingale feeder
Teschener Peace Column
Hoffmann Obelisk
Meier urn
Show installation of the Otahitian bathhouse
"Elderly lovers"
Chinese tea house, Jörg Bochow 2014
Chinese bridge
Lyric tree circle
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony-Anhalt II: Dessau and Halle administrative districts. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 , p. 154.
- Friends of "Park Dieskau" eV (ed.): The Dieskauer Park through the ages. History in the countryside. Kabelsketal 2017, without ISBN, 81 pages.
- Förderverein "Park Dieskau" eV (Ed.): Through the Chancellor's garden. The Dieskau Park in the Saalekreis. Text, image, editing: Förderverein “Park Dieskau” eV, Kabelsketal approx. 2016, without ISBN.
Web links
- Website of the friends' association
- Information from "Gartenträume-Sachsen-Anhalt"
- The park adventure trail in Dieskauer Park
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '59.3 " N , 12 ° 2' 5.6" E