City Park Gütersloh
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| Ibrüggers pond in the city park Gütersloh | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Gutersloh |
| District | Sundern |
| Created | 1908/09 |
| Surrounding streets | Parkstrasse, Badstrasse, Am Stadtgarten, Oststrasse |
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| User groups | Pedestrians , cyclists , leisure |
| Park design | Friedrich Wilhelm Schoedder, Paul Roehse, Karl Rogge |
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| Parking area | 150,000 m² |
The City Park Gütersloh is about 15 hectares large park in the East Westphalian town of Gütersloh . Integrated into the park is a 4-hectare botanical garden that is part of the European Garden Heritage Network .
In 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018 the facility was awarded the “Green Flag Award” as one of a maximum of twelve gardens in Germany, a seal of quality from the “Keep Britain Tidy” association in cooperation with the garden network Germany. In 2019, it was among the top 5 available parks in the global “Green Flag Award People's Choice” poll.
The city of Gütersloh states the number of visitors to the city park and botanical garden with 170,000 visitors per year. This number is based on an estimate, because admission is free and therefore no evaluation of tickets or the like. he follows.
The promotional group Stadtpark-Botanischer Garten Gütersloh, founded in 1996, provides ideal and financial support for the park and garden. In addition to the foundation of plantings and figures, the association also organizes and promotes events.
city Park
history
The park was created in 1908/09 on a site on the Dalke on the edge of the Gütersloh core city in the Sundern district . At that time Gütersloh had around 8,000 inhabitants. The brisk construction activity and the land consumption associated with the economic upturn led to a lack of green spaces in the urban area, so that the desire for an “outdoor recreation area for youth and people” arose within the citizens. In 1904 the city council dealt with this topic for the first time, in 1906 a piece of land was bought, of which the citizens contributed a third of the costs. On November 7, 1907, it was officially decided to lay out the city park.
The garden architect Friedrich Wilhelm Schoedder (1855–1938) from Iserlohn was entrusted with the supervision, the gardener Paul Roehse, who later settled in Gütersloh, took over the execution. The facility was planned in the style of the Lenné - Meyer school. The community-friendly character of the facility as a public park was reinforced by the inclusion of an ice rink , on which people could skate in winter . In the mid / late 1920s, the meadow was redesigned, but an ice meadow has now been integrated into the area again. In 1912, the city park on the northeastern edge was expanded to include the botanical garden. The Art Nouveau Parkbad opened in 1928 .
In 1960 a mini golf course was opened in the city park . In May 2000, a “fable path” with art objects by Manfred Billinger was set up. In 2001 an orchard was created .
The park was placed under monument protection in 2000 and entered in the list of architectural monuments in Gütersloh under monument number A 240 .
In 2006 the facility took 3rd place in the corresponding size category in the “Germany's Most Beautiful Park” competition.
Fruit show garden
In the spring of 2001 a fruit garden with 25 apple, 12 pear, five plum and seven cherry varieties was laid out in the middle of the park. A total of 65 trees are planted on the approximately 0.75 hectare area. The 33 apple trees are arranged around an oval path, around them the plums in the northeast and the pear trees in the southwest, the cherry trees stand on a path that cuts through the oval. The maintenance of the plant takes place after the Oeschbergschnitt . The facility represents an important arboretum for regional fruit trees from Westphalia and the surrounding area. It serves to preserve varieties that have become very rare.
Flora and fauna
In 2014, the city park was certified by the Herford Biotope Mapping Working Group to have a species-rich flora and fauna . Seven bat species were identified that are strictly protected under the Federal Nature Conservation Act. 43 bird species, 32 of them as breeding birds , have been identified, including five strictly protected species: kingfisher , tawny owl , sparrowhawk , pond rail and green woodpecker . The white wagtail , the goldhammer and the house sparrow are not endangered but relatively rare bird species . Of the 260 plant species that were mapped in the city park, 43 are classified as endangered in North Rhine-Westphalia, including the broad-leaved orchid , the heather carnation and the mean sundew .
gallery
The Dalke flows through the city park .
Ibrüggers pond
Sculpture by Manfred Billinger on the Fabelpfad
Orchard
The so-called hero memorial stone
Botanical Garden
history
In 1912 the city park was extended to the northeast by a botanical garden , which is now part of the European Garden Heritage Network . The garden was designed by the city gardener and later chief gardener inspector Karl Rogge (1884–1958), after whom a path in the city park is named today. Strictly speaking, however, it is not a botanical garden, as the plants were not planted systematically according to their geographical origin or according to their species, but a show garden, a flower garden with typical features of English gardening art. The core of the complex has been preserved to this day and is determined by geometric water basins, arcades with seating niches and high hornbeam hedges . A palm house was built in 1938, which was destroyed in World War II and rebuilt in 2004. A rose garden was laid out in 1946 and a birch grove in 1950.
In 1992 the garden was renovated and partially reconstructed on the basis of historical plans and photographs. In 1997/98 the garden was expanded to include several themed gardens. In 2000, a “scent tunnel” created by the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson was installed. On August 29, 2004, a café opened in the former palm house of the botanical garden. Not far from there, the apiary of the Gütersloh District Beekeeping Association provides information about beekeeping and keeping as well as about honey production.
Apothecary garden
In June 1998 a pharmacist garden with medicinal plants was laid out. Over 100 medicinal plants grow on almost 2,000 m² and are explained on information boards.
Lavender garden
In June 2011, on the occasion of the 70th birthday of its board member Liz Mohn , the Bertelsmann Stiftung announced that it would finance the expansion of the botanical garden to include a 785 m² lavender garden . The inauguration of the new garden took place one year later on June 29th ( Reinhard Mohn's birthday ) in 2012 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Botanical Garden. 475 lavender ( Lavandula angustifolia "Hidcote Blue") were planted on the strictly geometrically designed beds . The lavender beds are surrounded by 1200 shrubs and several columnar oaks and magnolias . Part of the complex is also a hornbeam hedge and a 25 meter long, three meter high trellis that was planted with Japanese wisteria .
gallery
At the old entrance to the Botanical Garden
In the botanical garden
Palm House Cafe
Hyacinth meadow
Lavender garden
literature
- Matthias E. Borner, Daniela Tomann: Off to botany. Park guide City Park and Botanical Garden Gütersloh . Vox Rindvieh, Gütersloh 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-057255-5 .
- Doris Schulz: Creation, development and expansion of the Volkspark in Gütersloh , University of Paderborn, Höxter Department (diploma thesis), 1990/91.
- City of Gütersloh, Department of Green Areas (Ed.): Gütersloher Grün. A foray through parks and green spaces for the 100th anniversary of the Stadtpark . Flöttmann Verlag, Gütersloh 2009, ISBN 3-87231-116-6 .
- Booklet 100 Years of the Botanical Garden , guetsel.de, Gütersloh 2012
Web links
- www.stadtpark-guetersloh.de , a website of the promotional group Stadtpark-Botanischer Garten Gütersloh (with a downloadable overview map)
- The botanical garden on the website of the city of Gütersloh
- The city park on the website of the European Garden Heritage Network
- The city park on the Green Flag Awards website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtpark is one of the most beautiful in the world , in: Die Glocke , Gütersloh local section from January 16, 2020, accessed online on January 17, 2020
Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 52.3 " N , 8 ° 23 ′ 36.5" E