Stuttgart City Garden

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Sculptures in the city garden
University of Stuttgart, Keplerstrasse 7

The Stuttgart City Garden is a 3- hectare park in Stuttgart that is directly adjacent to the City Center campus of the University of Stuttgart .

history

A lime tree avenue between the area of ​​today's Liederhalle and the university library, which already existed in the 1760s, was extended by a donation from Duke Karl Eugen in 1787 to include a four-fold avenue of linden , chestnut and poplar up to today's Max-Kade-Weg.

The first Württemberg horticultural exhibition took place on the site in 1870. For this purpose, flower beds and water features as well as a bandstand were built. A greenhouse was dismantled after the exhibition. The park was laid out by horticultural director Adolf Wagner until spring 1871. When the park was expanded in 1881, a palm house with a restaurant was built, where concerts and dance events took place regularly. After the First World War , a covered open-air stage was also built, which offered space for 1500 spectators.

The buildings in the park, which were destroyed and damaged by bombing during the Second World War, as well as the adjacent buildings were almost completely demolished in the 1950s and later rebuilt. The city garden was connected to the Hoppenlauf cemetery by an underpass , so that it forms an almost continuous green area with it. Between 1972 and 1974, an underground car park and pavilions for a city garden restaurant were built on Kriegsbergstrasse.

The gardens were also redesigned in the 1960s style from 1961. The two paths leading through the park were named after Joseph von Egle and Max Kade . In addition, the park was expanded by an area of ​​around 6,000 square meters, as parts of the adjacent streets were added to the park area. In addition to a fountain, there are some works of art in the city garden, as well as a memorial stone for the resistance fighter Liselotte Herrmann, who was executed by the National Socialists in 1938 .

Buildings near the park

  • Rectorate (main building), University of Stuttgart (1860–1864)
  • Building 1 (main building), Stuttgart University of Technology (1867–1873)
  • Max Kade dormitory, Stuttgart Student Union (1953)
  • Canteen, Studierendenwerk Stuttgart (1954–1956)
  • College Building I, University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning (1958–1960)
  • University Library Stuttgart (1958–1961)
  • Temporary lecture hall, University of Stuttgart (1962)
  • Kollegiengebäude II, University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Philosophy and History and Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences (1960–1964)
  • Underground car park with gas station and restaurant (1972–1974)
  • Catherine Hospital

Works of art in the city garden

Aggression I (1961) in front of the university library
  • 2 marble figures (1870), Silenus with Bacchus and Fortuna
  • 3 sandstone figures (1879), sculpture , mechanical engineering and astronomy by Karl Kurtz
  • Aggression I (1961) by Hans Uhlmann
  • Sculpture made of stainless steel sheets (1974) by Heinz L. Pistol
  • Fountain system (1974) by Heinz L. Pistol
  • Kubus (1977) by Hans Dieter Bohnet
  • Twelve Edges (1977) by Christoph Freimann
  • The Step into the Open (1985) by Christa Roesner-Drenhaus
  • Memorial stone for Liselotte Herrmann (1988) by Herbert Göser
  • Elevazione by Friedrich Rainhard Brüderlin
  • Steel sculpture (2004) by Klaus Wagner
  • Haus am Rad (2015) by Werner Pokorny

Web links

Commons : Stadtgarten Stuttgart  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtgarten - City of Stuttgart. Retrieved July 15, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 51.7 "  N , 9 ° 10 ′ 26.6"  E