Stötteritz grove

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In the Stötteritz wood

The Stötteritz wood is a small forest area within the Saxon city ​​of Leipzig .

Location and shape

The Stötteritz wood is located in the north of the Leipzig district of Stötteritz . It has an area of ​​16.7 hectares and is delimited to the east by Pommersche Straße, to the south by an allotment garden and the Stötteritz estate, to the west by an allotment garden division and company premises and to the north by the Südostbad, the Südoststadion and allotment gardens. The east road crosses the wooded area in a roughly north-south direction.

The common ash , of sycamore , the small-leaved lime , the hornbeam , and maple form the major constituent of trees. Some of the trees over 20 meters high are over 100 years old. Fox and wild rabbits can be found here as well as bird life.

  • playground

  • Toboggan slope

  • Small park hop garden

Numerous forest paths run through the Stötteritz wood. There are several children's playgrounds and a hill in the middle is used as a toboggan slope. On the southern edge is the former Gutsteich, now a pond at the Stötteritzer wood, a fishing water. The small Hopfengarten park, also located on the southern edge, takes its name from an old name for this area. With all of this, the Stötteritz wood forms an important recreational opportunity for the district.

history

In 1790 the writer and teacher Christian Felix Weisse inherited the lower manor in Stötteritz. The corridor adjoining to the north, the area of ​​the later Stötteritz wood, was used for agriculture and without trees. In the course of his redesign of the property, Weiße began to plant an English-style landscape garden to the north of it with tree planting . This area was called the hop garden.

  • Forest recreation site 1914

  • ... and the area in 2015

When the estate fell to the city council towards the end of the 19th century, the city council had already started planting forests from the north and was now continuing afforestation to the estate. In 1901 the "Association for Welfare for Sick Workers", founded in 1894 with the help of the entrepreneur Ludolf Colditz , was able to open a forest recreation and healing facility for workers with lung disease . It consisted of several barracks with men's and women's sections. The company was financed with "support from the council, other financially strong places in the city, but above all with donations from numerous citizens". In 1926 the site was closed. Forest school and kindergarten were the next types of use before the Hitler Youth took over the building in 1934 . Today there are two kindergartens and the children's and youth leisure center Oststrasse of Columbus Junior eV

After the Second World War , rubble from the eastern parts of the city was driven into the Stötteritz wood and piled up on a mountain. The toboggan slope was later built on its north side.

In 1995, the part of the Stötteritz forest to the west of Oststrasse was established as a natural monument (FND) "Rook breeding colony Stötteritz forest" by a statutory ordinance of the city of Leipzig; the protection status was revoked in 2016.

literature

  • Gerhild Schwendler: Stötteritz. A Leipzig district dictionary . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2014, ISBN 978-3-945027-07-3 , pp. 182/183

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ measured in the official city map of Leipzig
  2. ↑ Forest recreation center for lung patients . In: Gerhild Schwendler: Stötteritz , p. 208
  3. ↑ There is no plague of crows in Leipzig. In: Leipziger Zeitung, May 22, 2018. Retrieved May 16, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 27 ″  N , 12 ° 25 ′ 24 ″  E