St. Margarethen (Basel)
St. Margarethen is a hill on the northwestern edge of the Bruderholz on the outskirts of the Swiss city of Basel .
geography
The area belongs to the municipality of Binningen in the Basel countryside, but the canton of Basel-Stadt has owned the land since 1894 . Geographically, it is a short extension of the Bruderholz plateau over a width of approx. 500 meters.
In the eastern part is located at 320 m above sea level. M. the observatory St. Margarethen , next to it northeast further down the Margarethenpark (built in 1823 as an English garden with country house by Karl Burckhardt-Thurneysen ) with the Margarethen artificial ice rink (built in 1933; home stadium of the EHC Basel until 2002 ). A little further south is the St. Margarethen sun bath (opened in 1903 as a light, air and sun bath).
On the hill-like north-west tip stands at 310 m above sea level. M. the former monastery church of St. Margarethen with its estate; In the local dialect, this north-western tip is called Margretehügel (Margarethenhügel) and is a place for tobogganing in winter . In 1892 and 1901, large auditoriums were built by Hans Huber for the Basel Festival performances , which were aligned with the festival stage of the neighboring Pruntrutermatte to the north .
Legend
According to legend, St. Margarethen goes back to the three sisters Ottilie , Chrischona and Margarethe , each of whom built a church on one of the three hills in the vicinity of Basel, within sight of the other. From St. Margarethen, the churches of St. Ottilien in the German town of Tüllingen and St. Chrischona above Bettingen can be seen.
Web links
Monastery church
Observatory
Margarethenpark
- Stadtgärtnerei Basel-Stadt - Dossier on Margarethenpark (PDF; 1.2 MB)