Sommerhoffpark

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Main panorama around 1825. View from the south bank of the Main near Niederrad towards the northeast.
In the middle of the picture the Gogelsche Herrenhaus with park, to the left of it the neighboring Gutleuthof
Gogels Gut (center left) on a city map from 1885 of the Ravenstein Publishing House
View of the retaining wall of the eastern terrace of the Sommerhoff Park from the west. At the right edge of the picture the river Main
Sequoia (left) and flowering ornamental cherry (right) in the Sommerhoffpark

The Sommerhoffpark is a 2.47 hectare park in the Gutleut district of the Hessian city of Frankfurt am Main , which has existed since the 19th century . The park, which is now open to the public, emerged from a private English landscape garden that had belonged to the country residence of the Frankfurt banker Johann Noe Gogel from the early to the late 19th century. The park has been owned by the city of Frankfurt since 1928.

history

With the abandonment of the Frankfurt city fortifications at the beginning of the 19th century and the conversion of the land in question into green spaces (→ Frankfurter Wallanlagen ) , the interest of wealthy Frankfurt citizens in representative country estates outside the city limits grew. The wine merchant and banker Johann Noe Gogel acquired the property of today's park , which is located directly on the north bank of the Main next to Gutleuthof , in 1803. He commissioned the prominent architect Salins de Montfort to build a mansion with outbuildings, including a gardener's house and a greenhouse. Gogel also had a landscape park based on the English model laid out on the property . In 1883 the country estate and park changed hands; the property was renamed Sommerhoffpark after this . In 1928 the city of Frankfurt bought the property and converted it into a public park. The city has set up extensive teaching and leisure activities for children and young people on the site, including a playground with a paddling pool, a river swimming pool on the banks of the Main, work gardens and open-air teaching areas for schoolchildren, as well as a bird sanctuary.

The mansion was destroyed in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main in World War II. Only parts of the surrounding walls and some wrought-iron railings of the buildings of the Gogelschen country estate have been preserved. Today's park has some tall trees, including a solitary specimen of a coastal sequoia and some very tall and sweeping plane trees .

Location and transport links

The Sommerhoffpark is located in the western part of the Gutleutviertel, which is characterized by commercial and industrial facilities, to the southwest of Frankfurt city center. On the south side, the park area borders directly on the right (northern) bank of the river Main . The park has only one public access. This is easily overlooked, on Gutleutstraße, northwest of the park, between the Johanna Kirchner senior citizens' home and a school complex. Due to a high quay wall and fences on the river bank built in the 20th century, the park can no longer be reached from the waterfront. In the immediate north-eastern neighborhood of the Sommerhoffpark there are two schools, a day-care center, a senior citizens' home and residential complex for senior citizens, as well as the Main-Neckar bridge that spans the Main . Directly across from the park, on the south bank of the Main, lies the Niederrad light and air bath at a width of around 500 meters , whose continuous vegetation and tall trees offer a botanical view from the Sommerhoffpark.

The Sommerhoffpark can only be reached via publicly accessible properties and paths from Gutleutstrasse, which begins in the east at the Frankfurt ramparts . The property has the address Gutleutstrasse 315 . There is another access from the area of ​​the old people's home, as well as not visible behind the sports hall of the vocational school via Gutleuthofweg. The nearest S-Bahn station is Frankfurt-Galluswarte station, about one kilometer to the northwest .

literature

  • Frank Berger, Christian Setzepfand: 101 non-locations in Frankfurt . In it: Chapter Not Far - Gogels Gut over the Sommerhoffpark; P. 64 f. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011. ISBN 978-3-7973-1248-8
  • Sonja Thelen: Green Frankfurt. A guide to more than 70 parks and facilities in the city . B3 Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-938783-19-1

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Heinz Berger, Petra Meyer, Tomas Meyer: development of gardens and green spaces in Frankfurt . Small writings of the Historisches Museum Frankfurt am Main, vol. 38. AIG Verlag, Frankfurt 1988, p. 102
  2. ↑ a b c Sonja Thelen: Green Frankfurt, p. 36
  3. ↑ a b Berger, deposit: 101 Unorte in Frankfurt, p. 65
  4. ↑ Sommerhoffpark at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the City of Frankfurt am Main
  5. ^ Sonja Thelen: Green Frankfurt, p. 35
  6. ^ City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (Ed.): The Green Belt Leisure Map, 7th edition 2011

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 46.5 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 54.5 ″  E