City garden (Freiburg im Breisgau)

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View of the city garden with the Schloßbergbahn

The Stadtgarten Freiburg is a 2.6 hectare park in the Neuburg district . It has an old tree population and a large rose garden and is located between the Leopoldring, Jacob Burckhardt, Ludwig and Mozart Strasse near the Freiburg city ​​center. It is connected to Karlsplatz via the Karlssteg pedestrian bridge made of prestressed concrete. Since 2008, leading Schlossbergbahn , an inclined lift , on the Schlossberg . It replaced the Schlossberg cable car built in 1968 .

The Freiburg drake

The music pavilion in the park is used in summer for concerts and as an open-air stage e.g. B. the Theatersport Open Air Festival in the city garden , which has been taking place since 1997.

In addition to perennial and alternating flower beds, the city garden includes a children's playground as well as two ponds and fountains. The city garden also includes the Schlossbergfest, which takes place once a year in the summer, and several thousand candles are lit in the city garden and on the Schlossberg. It took place for the last time in 2011.

history

City map from the turn of the century shows the original extent of the park

The city garden was created as a result of the "Upper Rhine Industrial Exhibition" of 1887, which still took place on Karlsplatz, the former parade and measurement site. In 1887 the city gardener Schmöger was commissioned with the planning and construction of the same. The park was completed and opened in 1888, and there was even an entry fee until 1911. The original equipment included an aquarium, music pavilion, fountain and a children's playground. There was also an enclosure with a rhesus monkey named Änne, which can now be seen stuffed in the Museum Natur und Mensch . From 1889, there were also areas on the western Schlossberg, which were created as a forest park. As a result of the First World War , maintenance was clearly neglected, so that the site was redesigned from 1920 to 1924. Until the concert hall and the park were destroyed in the air raid on the city ( Operation Tigerfish ), the park remained in this form. After the Second World War , the city garden was restored. This began in 1948 with the filling of the bomb craters and the clearing of the roads; this partial restoration took place as part of the “Baden industrial and commercial exhibition”. From 1952 the park was completely restored and in 1953 it was even extended to the north to the area of ​​the former festival hall (see below). In 1967 it was reduced in size on the southern edge to make room for the construction of the Leopoldring. In the 1960s, the Schlossberg cable car to the Dattler restaurant was built, which had already been planned in 1914. The green belt between Leopoldring and Erasmusstraße is a remnant of the former city garden.

Festival hall

Freiburg city garden with art and festival hall around 1900

The Freiburg Festival Hall to the north also belonged to the Freiburg City Garden. The hall was planned as early as 1845 for the Baden Singing Festival in 1846, but construction did not begin until August 10, 1846; the roof structure was put in place on October 2nd, 1847, and the makeshift hall was then used as a warehouse and barracks during the Baden Revolution . It was only after the unrest subsided in 1852 that construction work was resumed and the hall opened in 1854. The plans for the culture and festival hall come from Friedrich Eisenlohr , and it was built by the Freiburg architect Schneider. In the night of the bombing on November 27, 1944, the hall was destroyed and later not rebuilt. Today the rose garden is located on the site. . The trade fairs and exhibitions then took place from 1954 in the city ​​or exhibition hall in the Ostwiehre at the old measuring place until they moved to the new measuring place for the Freiburg trade fair in 1999 . The area of ​​the hall, including the area opposite the Leopoldstrasse, which has disappeared, was added to the city garden.

Bandstand

Bandstand

The music pavilion was built in 1969 by the building department. It was designed by Max Scherberger, who is also the structural engineer for the Schlossberg tower . The shape of the roof is a hyperbolic paraboloid like the Faulerbad. The curved surfaces of the self-supporting roof are composed of straight wooden elements. That was the first roof shell of this kind in Germany . The concrete abutment was designed by the then head of the structural engineering office, Immo Kirsch. In the summer of 2015, a routine examination revealed that water had penetrated the roof and was therefore in danger of collapsing. Originally, the renovation should be finished by the Theatersport Festival in July 2016. However, it was delayed by the rainy weather. However, events could take place again in September.

Works of art

A number of sculptures are exhibited in the city garden. This includes the kinetic sculpture Windspiel made from V2A stainless steel by the Freiburg neurologist and sculptor Roland Phleps (* 1924). It was set up in 2000. The Waiting Woman by Richard Engelmann (1868–1966) was created in 1926, but it was not set up in the city garden until 1950. According to the Freiburg State Archives, the owl by Eva Eisenlohr (1891–1977) could earlier have stood on a well designed by her in front of the infection department of the Freiburg University Hospital .

The Illumina Till-Peter Otto (* 1975) was exhibited as part of an exhibition on sundials at the Expo 2000 in Hanover. On January 22nd, 2014 it was discovered by employees of the gardening and civil engineering department of the city of Freiburg that the sculpture was willfully damaged and that its head had been stolen. The damage caused was 5000 euros.

  • Roland Phleps: Greyhound

  • Richard Engelmann: Waiting

  • Eva Eisenlohr: Owl

  • Till-Peter Otto: Illumina

  • The destroyed Illumina

There are also several fountains in the city garden, including the flute player fountain by Arthur Bausenhart (1910–2005) from 1959 at its east exit .

On one of the ponds is the memorial for the Freiburg drake , which rumor has it that warned many people about the air raid on Freiburg. Although there is no historical evidence of this, the Erpel pottery was commissioned from Richard Bampi by Freiburg mayor Wolfgang Hoffmann in 1953 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Open Air Festival
  2. ^ Schlossbergfest , accessed on February 23, 2013
  3. ↑ Stadtgarten Freiburg Baden pages
  4. ↑ Karl Peter Otter: The reunion with a dear old friend . In: Freiburger Almanach 33 (1982) , pp. 129-131
  5. ↑ Joachim Scheck: So the then new Leopoldring fell victim to a piece of the city garden. Badische Zeitung, August 27, 2018, accessed on August 27, 2018 .
  6. ^ Rudolf Thoma: The art and festival hall. In: HM Poppen & Sohn: Freiburg im Breisgau. The city and its buildings. , Freiburg im Breisgau 1898, page 573 f
  7. ↑ Peter Kalchthaler : The Freiburg city garden has a military past. Badische Zeitung, February 23, 2015, accessed on February 23, 2015 .
  8. ^ Simone Höhl: Freiburg: Stadtgarten: music pavilion not finished - improv theater festival in need. Badische Zeitung, June 23, 2016, accessed on June 23, 2016 .
  9. ^ Freiburg: Briefly reported. Badische Zeitung, September 17, 2016, accessed on November 13, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Exhibitions 1993 to 2000. stiftung-konkrete-kunst.de, accessed on November 13, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Hans-Joachim Müller: A metropolis of sculpture. Contemporary art on Freiburg's streets and squares. (PDF) kv-artundweise.de, accessed on November 13, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Photos of the Freiburg University Clinics. deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de, accessed on November 13, 2016 .
  13. ^ Sculptor Till Otto. home.arcor.de, accessed on November 13, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Unknown heads statue in the Freiburg city garden. Badische Zeitung , January 22, 2014, accessed January 27, 2014 .
  15. ^ Peace Cross on Leonhard-Grimm-Platz, Freiburg-Littenweiler. dreisamtal-online.eu, accessed on November 13, 2016 .
  16. ^ Rosemarie Beck, Roland Meinig: Brunnen in Freiburg , Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 1991, ISBN 3-7930-0550-X , p. 123
  17. ^ Erpel Stadtgarten Freiburg Baden pages
  18. ↑ Andreas Braun: The drake was just a duck. Badische Zeitung, March 19, 2009, accessed on February 23, 2015 .

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