Sieglitzer Berg
The Park am Sieglitzer Berg or Sieglitzer Park was founded in the second half of the 18th century under the reign of Prince Leopold III. Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau (* 1740; † 1817) and is now part of the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm .
history
After 1777 Prince Franz had a forest park built about 3 km west of the old fishing village of Vockerode on the Elbbogen . It is located on a height of 68 meters, the Sieglitzer Berg, free from flooding, and covers around 25 hectares. When it was first built, the park was almost directly on the Elbe and was described as an organized wilderness , as it is here, in contrast to the other facilities of the garden realm, hardly noticed the design interventions of the landscape designer, the park with its natural tree cover was very much included in the design. The fenced area and the surrounding forests were used for hunting in the 18th century. Three differently designed gates were inserted into the game gate.
At that time there was also a small port facility below the castle walls. In the 19th century the harbor basin silted up, which is still reminiscent of an oxbow lake today. During several floods, the Elbe finally dug a new bed at the beginning of the 20th century.
Neglected in the following decades, the area of the park was used by the Soviet Army and the National People's Army as a military maneuver area in the 1970s .
As part of a multi-year job creation measure, the overgrown Sieglitzer Park was reconstructed and partially restored.
Solitude
The Solitude, the central structure of the complex and located west of the Sieglitzer Berg, is a small classical building in the form of a Doric temple, built from 1777 onwards . It served as a therapeutic bath for the prince who suffered from rheumatic complaints.
Above the portico with four Tuscan columns you can read the inscription “The betterment”. The building once had a hall with a fireplace, a cabinet, a bedroom and a kitchen.
Destroyed in GDR times and demolished in 1979, it was rebuilt between 2008 and 2012 with donations, especially from the Rotary Club Dessau, and funding.
Kitchen building
Right next to the Solitude was the so-called. The kitchen building was built as a farm building by Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff in 1779/80 and was given the shape of a ruined Roman burial tower. Inside were the kitchen and cellar, water was heated and fed into the tiled bathing room of the Solitude by means of an underground pipe system.
Gate systems
Three artistically designed gates mark the entrances to the Sieglitzer Berg. From the east one arrives at the castle gate in neo-Gothic style, which is reminiscent of medieval fortresses. To underline this, medieval spoilers were inserted into the wall bond above the gate.
The classicistic Vockeroder Tor , also known as the south gate, was based on Italian buildings. From the west you can reach the baroque Dessau Gate , also known as the Kupenwall Gate , crowned with pine cones.
Monuments and sculptures
Garden architecture and monuments also belong to the park.
Coming from the east, two white statues, Diana on the left and that of a faun on the right, mark the entrance to the forest of Sieglitzer Park. These motifs, which can be traced back to ancient models, refer to hunting, the original purpose of the area.
A second Diana statue with a billowing coat, quiver and dog is at the end of a visual axis. It is a newly built sandstone sculpture based on an original from 1785.
The so-called sacrificial stone, a pedestal erected before 1780 with weathered lyrical texts, is now little known poets of the 18th century and is within sight of the Diana monument. The sculpture of a dancing faun is said to have stood on the pedestal.
The Wilhelmsvase commemorates Count Wilhelm von Anhalt who died in the Battle of Torgau during the Seven Years' War .
tourism
The European cycle path R1 (Elberadweg route), the European long-distance hiking path E11 and the long-distance cycle paths D3, D10 and D11 run along the Sieglitzer Berg ; furthermore the Lutherweg Sachsen-Anhalt , the cycle path German Unity and the 68 km long garden kingdom tour "Fürst Franz".
Picture gallery
Diana monument
Wilhelm's vase
Castle gate
Vocker or Tor
Dessau Gate
Castle ramparts with Dessau Gate
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literature
- Matthias Prasse: Arcadia on the Elbe River. Palaces and gardens between Wittenberg and Dessau. Herrenhaus-Kultur-Verlag, Dresden 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-030860-4 , p. 204 f.
- Uwe Quilitzsch: The Sieglitzer Park . In: The Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz. Cultural landscape on the Elbe and Mulde. Ed .: Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz, L&H Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-939629-54-2 , pp. 101-109.
Web links
- Sieglitzer Berg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sieglitzer Berg on www.gartenreich.de . Retrieved February 15, 2020.
Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 17 ″ E