Speckenbütteler Park

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Speckenbütteler Park in the Lehe district ( Speckenbüttel district ) is one of the two large city ​​parks in Bremerhaven . It extends over an area of ​​80  hectares .

The park gate from 1896, donated by the German-American Bernhard von Glahn, is a protected cultural monument and is registered with the State Office for Monument Preservation with the number 3378

With the Folklore Open-Air Museum , established in 1908, it is home to one of the oldest open-air museums in Germany.

Speckenbütteler Park (Bremerhaven 1)
Speckenbütteler Park
Speckenbütteler
Park
Location in Bremerhaven

history

Powder magazine from 1875, only rediscovered in 1990
This 320 m² and 12 m high living structure is known as the “willow castle”
Post mill

The "old wood", an oak tree used as a guard on today's Parkstrasse , was an excursion destination for the Leh citizens from the early 19th century and a fairground for the Leh rifle club by 1835 at the latest. From 1888 a riding arena was built, which later became a horse racing track.

From 1890, the Speckenbütteler Holz forest area was converted into the Speckenbütteleler Park and expanded to a total of 13 hectares in 1906 according to plans by the Viennese garden architect Viktor Goebel . In 1903 Lehe honored the park patron Senator Georg Brinkmann (1822–1896) with a bust. In 1895 (or 1897) the old multi-storey car park was built and concerts were also held here.

The park gate Speckenbüttel on Parkstrasse from 1896 was designed by the Leh city architect Heinrich Lagershausen in the style of historicism . The patron and builder was Bernhard von Glahn (1825–1899), who emigrated to the USA in 1837, acquired American citizenship and returned in 1880 wealthy. The park gate has been a listed building since 2010, after it was used as a youth recreation center and restored from 1990 to 1991. The returnees also donated a bronze Columbus monument, which the Darmstadt-based sculptor Ludwig Habich created . This was also located in Speckenbütteler Park, but was melted down towards the end of the First World War .

In 1905 a coffee house was built next to the parking garage , today's parking garage. There are playgrounds at the park gate and at the high ropes course. In 1912 the Low German association Waterkant set up a Fritz Reuter stone . The expansion of the Speckenbütteler Park went back to Friedrich Timmermann in the 1920s. The artificial boat pond was created in 1910 and offers boat rentals and winter ice rinks.

Another listed building is the Speckenbüttel powder magazine from 1875 in the west of the park.

In 2001 a management plan was drawn up which was to give the park, now known as the Speckenbüttel health park, a new image. This includes, for example, the “Alley of the Healing Trees”, which comprises 52 trees with 13 tree species that are considered medicinally and medically beneficial.

literature

  • Thomas Reinicke: Speckenbüttel health and wellness park . Booklet accompanying the presentation of the master plan. Ed .: Magistrate of the City of Bremerhaven - Horticultural Office. Bremerhaven January 10, 2001 (22 pages, digitized version ( memento from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 19.0 MB ; accessed on August 1, 2020]).
  • Alexander Cordes: The former powder magazine in Bremerhaven-Speckenbüttel . In: Hartmut Bickelmann (Hrsg.): Bremerhaven Contributions to City History (=  Publications of the City Archives Bremerhaven . Volume 9 ). Ditzen Verlag, Bremerhaven 1994, ISBN 3-923851-14-6 , p. 139-161 (224 pp.).
  • Publications in the Niederdeutschen Heimatblatt
    • Gisela Tiedemann: From Otterndorf via Holßel to Speckenbüttel. About the second mill of the farmers' association . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 567 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven March 1997, p. 4 ( digital copy [PDF; 4.1 MB ; accessed on August 9, 2020]).
    • Peter Raap : Ruin in Speckenbütteler Park . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 687 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven March 2007, p. 4 ( digital version [PDF; 954 kB ; accessed on August 1, 2020]).
    • Harald Neujahr: 80 years of post mill in Speckenbütteler Park. In November 1935, the farmhouse association celebrated its first mill topping-out ceremony . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 791 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven November 2015, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 1.5 MB ; accessed on September 10, 2019]).
    • Bernd Langensiepen: The fortress flight station Speckenbüttel-Geestemünde. An airport on the former racecourse in Speckenbütteler Park . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 846 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven June 2020, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 3.1 MB ; accessed on August 1, 2020]).

Web links

Commons : Speckenbütteler Park  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bremerhaven Horticultural Office (ed.): Speckenbüttel Health Park . Druckhaus Breyer, Bremerhaven 2013, p. 4 .
  2. ^ Monument database of the LfD Bremen: Parktor.
  3. ↑ Speckenbüttel park gate. In: Website preservation of monuments Bremen Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen: powder magazine.
  5. ^ Hermann Schwiebert: The imperial powder magazine in Speckenbüttel. In: Website DeichSPIEGEL - the online magazine from Bremerhaven. March 19, 2018, accessed August 1, 2020 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 25.8 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 56.6"  E