Lützschena Castle Park

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Lützschena Castle Park.
The swan house in the rose pond

The Lützschena Palace Park is a historic park in the Leipzig district of Lützschena-Stahmeln .

Location and shape

The approximately 19 hectare area of ​​the Lützschena Castle Park extends southeast of the Lützschena Castle and belongs to the northern part of the Leipzig riparian forest . It is also part of the Burgaue nature reserve . It is also a listed building.

The park is bounded on the north by the White Elster , in the south and west by the dog water (sometimes back water), an oxbow lake of the White Elster, and in the east by Polenz flow, the White Elster and dogs water connects. Access from the castle is via the wooden castle bridge over the White Elster. About 100 meters east of it, the White Bridge was restored, which previously provided public access to the park. There is also a bridge over the Polenzfließ and one over the Hundewater.

The park is based on the typical alluvial forest landscape, including the existing trees, designed to be close to nature, with small artificial watercourses, of which the park river between Polenz river and Hundewasser is the longest. The park contains five ponds, with the rose pond, triangle pond and duck pond forming a connected group. The Dianateich is still close by, while the water ring around the forest chapel (also known as the temple pond) is at the southeast end.

Only a few of the statues, small architecture and monuments that used to exist have been preserved and restored. The Temple of Diana stands on a peninsula in the Diana pond. A wreath with a hemispherical roof rests on six Doric columns. Once there was a statue of Diana under it . The swan house is on an island in the rose pond. The forest chapel, a restored brick building from 1826, which was rebuilt in 1910, rises on a small island in the temple pond. The southern part of the park was formerly a burial place for the castle owners. In addition to some tombs, there are remains of the former burial chapel, on which a stylized Gothic door with explanatory boards was attached. In the artificial ruin “Ex voto” the lost statuettes (St. Mary and two angels) were replaced by pictures. In the park you can find the original statue of Venus and replicas of the statues Kronos , Flora and Apollino. The erection of the Hercules statue is planned for April 2016 .

The alluvial forest station is located in the castle's former wheelwright at the entrance to the castle . The alluvial forest station sees itself as an environmental education center and cultural site. It is run by the Auwaldstation und Schlosspark Lützschena eV association and offers a wide range of nature adventure hikes to readings and concerts.

  • White bridge

  • Temple of Diana

  • Forest chapel

  • Flora statue

  • Apollino statue

  • Former burial chapel

history

As early as 1685, a " pleasure garden " was mentioned in addition to the estate owned by the Uechtritz family in Lützschena . In 1743 there was talk of an orangery . In 1822 the Leipzig merchant Maximilian Speck (from 1819 Maximilian Speck von Sternburg) acquired the Lützschena estate. Soon after the acquisition, he had a park built based on the English model . The existing tree population was supplemented by some exotic trees. The art lover Sternburg had numerous statues erected. Busts of personalities whom he particularly venerated were gathered in a temple of honor. As a reminder of his trip to Russia in 1825, he had a Russian garden laid out north of the White Elster, which is no longer part of the park.

The retirement home in the Lützschena Castle Park in 1830

The entire park did not contain any magnificent buildings, on the contrary, some objects made of perishable material, such as a straw tower or a platform stretched between trees. The whole thing could be viewed from a resting place.

The descendants of Maximilian Speck von Sternburg, his son Alexander (1856–1916) and his grandson Alexander James (1856–1916) changed the park at the turn of the 20th century. Mainly the short-lived structures were removed and the permanent structures adapted to the taste of the times.

After 1945, the land reform expropriated the park together with the property and released it for timber production. The facilities degenerated. Plans in the early 1980s to reactivate the park were not implemented. When the park was threatened with further breakdown and sale after 1990, the heir to the family estate, Wolf-Dietrich Freiherr Speck von Sternburg, decided in 1998 to repurchase the facility in order to share it with the community of Lützschena (after incorporation with Leipzig) in the spirit of the founder to preserve and renovate for the public. With the help of the support association founded in 2002, numerous objects were secured and restored.

literature

  • Denis Achtner: The Lützschena Palace Park . In Unterwegs im Leipziger Westen , advertising agency Kolb Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-944992-05-1 , pp. 70–81
  • Peter Benecken: Parks & Gardens in the Green Ring Leipzig , ProLeipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-945027-10-3 , pp. 40/41
  • Wolf-Dietrich Speck von Sternburg, Peter Guth: The Speck von Sternburgsche Schlosspark Lützschena . Published by Bernd Sikora, Passage-Verlag Leipzig 1999. ISBN 3-932900-28-6
  • Peter Gut: How dreary it is in the beautiful grove. The Lützschena Park. In Leipziger Blätter , No. 19, 1991, pp. 16-19

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See list of cultural monuments in Lützschena-Stahmeln
  2. ^ Standing water in the city of Leipzig. (No longer available online.) In: Website of the city of Leipzig. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016 ; Retrieved March 3, 2016 .
  3. ↑ OpenStreetMap. Retrieved March 3, 2016 .
  4. ↑ ex voto = (Latin) because of a vow
  5. ↑ Apollino: Roman copy of a Greek sculpture copy of the youthful god Apollo
  6. ↑ LVZ of March 4, 2016, p. 23

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 32.8 "  N , 12 ° 17 ′ 4.5"  E