Schustehruspark

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Schustehruspark
Coat of arms of Berlin.svg
Park in Berlin
Schustehruspark
Basic data
place Berlin
District Charlottenburg
Created 1882 (private)
Newly designed 1914 for the public
Surrounding streets
Schustehrusstrasse,
Hebbelstrasse
use
User groups Pedestrians,
cyclists,
leisure enthusiasts
Technical specifications
Parking area 10,230 m²
52 ° 30 '58.8 "  N , 13 ° 17' 56.6"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '58.8 "  N , 13 ° 17' 56.6"  E
Schustehruspark (Berlin)
Schustehruspark

The Schustehruspark is a listed green area in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg . The park, which opened in 1914, was designed by the Charlottenburg city garden architect Erwin Barth and named after the mayor of Charlottenburg, Kurt Schustehrus , who died the year before .

Location and history

Memorial plaque , Schustehrusstraße 33 in Berlin-Charlottenburg

The park is located at the northern end of a former wetland, today's wet triangle , in which the outflow of the Lietzensee and the Schwarze Graben merged. The wetland was in 1711 at the instigation of King Frederick I dug a carp pond, which, however, soon silted . Later the area belonged to the private park of the Villa Oppenheim adjoining to the west . In 1906 the city of Charlottenburg planned a road connection through the park area between today's Nithackstraße and Fritschestraße. The property owner Otto Georg Oppenheim successfully defended himself against this, which is why the first house numbers on Fritschestrasse that belonged to Nithackstrasse and Oppenheimschen property are still missing today. In 1911, the city of Charlottenburg acquired the site in order to build a recreation park for the residents of the nearby tenements, as they saw the danger “that the beautiful large park would be used for building sites for tenements.” However, only reservations were made from the large Oppenheim garden the east part for the park. The northern part of the garden on Schustehrusstraße was later used to build a school. From the southern part, the properties at Schloßstraße 56-58 were sold to private builders for development and access to the planned park was created from Schloßstraße, today's Otto-Grüneberg-Weg. On November 26th, 1912, the path was named Am Parking Lot .

Charlottenburg gardening director Erwin Barth was commissioned to design the park. In his plans for the complex, Barth included the old trees and some of the garden equipment found there, such as fences and terracotta vases. Barth himself designed the gas lanterns for the recreation facility. The park was badly damaged during the Second World War . Emergency funerals were held there in the last days of the war. In 1947/1948 the park was rebuilt in a simplified manner by Walter Hilzheimer. On the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Berlin in 1987, it was reconstructed in the Barthian sense.

In the middle of the rectangular park there is a large green area surrounded by beds, trees and specially designed benches. There is a perennial garden on the eastern side . At the two southern corners of the park there are small roundels with specially designed lamps and seating. Eight terracotta-colored vases at prominent points in the park are modeled on the lost stone vases from 1914. They were created by the sculptor Gerald Matzner for the reconstruction in 1987. On the south side there is a children's playground with a small shelter belonging to the park. During the First World War it was used by the Horticultural Office as a plant area, where fodder was grown towards the end of the war, and was only completed after the end of the war.

literature

  • Erwin Barth : The Schustehrus Park Charlottenburg. In: Die Gartenkunst No. 7/1919, pp. 83–84.
  • Dietmar Land, Jürgen Wenzel: Home, nature and cosmopolitan city. Life and work of the garden architect Erwin Barth. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-7338-0338-8 .
  • Gisela Scholtze: The Villa Oppenheim in Charlottenburg . In: Mitteilungen des Verein für die Geschichte Berlins , 93rd vol., 1997, pp. 150–164 ( PDF ).

Web links

Commons : Schustehruspark  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scholtze, 1997, p. 163.
  2. ↑ In the Berlin address books of 1906 and 1907, Fritschestrasse begins at Luisenplatz . Today it starts at number 21 (soccer field) on Hebbelstraße.
  3. ↑ 72. Walk through the neighborhood. Schlossstrasse 55 Villa Oppenheim
  4. ↑ Scholtze, 1997, pp. 161-162.
  5. ↑ At the parking lot . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein . Today one probably has different associations with the name than in 1912.
  6. ↑ Eight vases at the Luisenstadt Educational Association .
  7. ↑ Historical photos of the Schustehruspark on the green side of the district office