Walk to Ludwigspark
| Walk to Ludwigspark | |
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 Former location of the east bastion and the well. |
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| location | Germany |
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| Starting point | Ludwigskreisel 49 ° 14 ′ 35.8 ″ N , 6 ° 58 ′ 53.9 ″ E |
| Target point | Diana temple 49 ° 15 ′ 20.3 " N , 6 ° 58 ′ 52" E |
| Type | trail |
Map with all coordinates: The Ludwigspark Walk is a short hiking trail through the Ludwigspark in Saarbrücken , a former palace park built by Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken .
background
From 1769 Friedrich Stengel was the builder of the palace and palace gardens . Johann Köllner , Heinrich Ludwig Koellner and Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell worked as gardeners on the park. The park was also open to the public as a public garden from 1773. The buildings in the park were destroyed by troops from the French Revolution in 1793 . A series of button miniatures and plans by Heinrich Ludwig Koellner are reliable evidence of the appearance of the former park. Photographs of these button miniatures are in the Saarland Museum .
In a letter dated May 6, 1792, Adolph Knigge reported on his visit to the pleasure palace . He described it as small but tasteful. He also reports that the prince had an orangery built shortly before Knigge's visit.
The Ludwigspark secondary school was built on the former site of the castle, and in 1957 the architect György Lehoczky gave it windows with animal motifs. Nowadays there are several steel plates scattered along the length of the hiking trail, which remind of places from this former castle park and contain information about them. Furthermore, the park represents the south gate of the Saar coal forest .
description
The hiking trail begins at the Ludwigskreisel at the foot of the Ludwigspark and leads up the former castle driveway. On the right, the first waypoint is a bench in the form of the garden pavilion, which was located here and whose foundation walls are still underground. In the past, based on drawings, the Marlborough Tower was suspected here. There are steel panels on the bench with information about this building. The foundation of the garden pavilion was 12-sided and it had a mirror cabinet with a so-called pleasure grotto . It was also adorned with rock crystals , amethysts , mirror and colored glass.
Then there is another stone bench on the right, which is supposed to remind of the oval fountain bowl. This fountain was adorned with water-spouting figures, which were excavated there along with glass and ceramics. You are currently in the state archive . Remnants of the well are still buried here. It was part of the eastern side bastion, the plateau of which can still be seen today.
At what is now Ludwigspark Comprehensive School, formerly a secondary school, the path turns left. It leads here through the fir forest along the school. The fir forest is the oldest part of the castle park. It had the characteristics of a formal garden . After school, the hiking trail turns several times, passing the Ludwigsparkstadion and the Saarlandhalle . Significant facilities in the palace gardens are believed to be under these two buildings. For example, there were two ponds at the current location of the stadium.
After crossing Camphauser Straße, you enter the Dianenhain. This part of the park, opened in 1789, contained a hunting star, a diana temple, an orangery with a flora dome and a theater. The Dianenhain thus represented a hybrid form between pleasure garden and hunting park. The grove was completely fenced and could only be entered through gatehouses, of which there is still a tower today. This tower of the former gatehouse is not directly on the hiking trail.
In the Dianenhain, the trail leads past the former location of the open-air theater, which had a painted backdrop. There is also a steel plate here. This plate was installed there in May 2006 by students from the Ludwigspark secondary school together with guest students from the Dortmund-Mengede secondary school.
After a few branches the path follows the stream called Heiligengraben until it crosses it. The name of the holy moat may come from the fact that the Diana grove was previously considered a sacred grove. On a historical miniature button there is also a picture of a large Heiligengraben bridge, but there is currently no archaeological evidence of such a structure.
The hiking trail then leads to a junction known as the star stable. The star stable is located in the center of the aforementioned hunting star, which was laid out for Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken's courtly hunts. A steel plate is also attached to the place nowadays. The path continues straight ahead over the so-called Dianenstrahl to the destination of the hiking trail, where there is another steel plate. This points to the former Diana temple, which was located there. It is believed that Diana was worshiped here as early as Roman times . The temple was a larger building with two side wings and a statue of the eponymous goddess.
The way back is a detour over the Hirschwiese. At that time the deer were kept in an enclosure for hunting. Otherwise, the Haldenrundweg and the supraregional Saar-Mosel-Weg continue from the Diana temple .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State capital Saarbrücken (Ed.): Ludwigspark . Walk through Ludwigspark on the trail of the old park. 1st edition. Saarbrücken ( online [PDF; 1.8 MB ]).
- ^ Joachim Conrad : Stengel Friedrich Joachim Michael. In: Saarland biographies. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
- ^ Joachim Conrad : Köllner Johann Friedrich Christian I. In: Saarland biographies. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
- ^ Joachim Conrad : Köllner Heinrich Ludwig. In: Saarland biographies. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
- ^ Joachim Conrad : Sckell Clarus Friedrich Ludwig von. In: Saarland biographies. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Dorothee Scharner: The historic Ludwigspark in Saarbrücken. SR 3 Saarlandwelle , June 18, 2007, accessed on November 26, 2019 .
- ^ Adolph Knigge : Letters written on a trip from Lorraine to Lower Saxony . Hanover 1793, third letter, p. 16-18 ( online ).
- ^ Joachim Conrad : Lehoczky György Kàroly László. In: Saarland biographies. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .