City maintenance ranger
The city maintenance Ranger is a small green area in the city of Augsburg . It is located in the station district on the road Am Alten intake and together with several surrounding historic buildings among ensemble protection standing urban ensemble . From the green area laid out at the beginning of the 19th century, only a smaller area is now available.
history
Public green space
The originally large Anger before the old intake - one of the former Augsburg city gates and also "Nachttor" on the western edge of town - was about 1,820 as urban green space decorated. In the 1820s, numerous balsam poplars were planted on a newly laid out path on the so-called " Stadtpflegeranger " (later spelling Stadtpflegeranger ) . In 1831 the Augsburger Tagblatt reported that the Anger, with its avenue made of balsam poplars, which "give off such a pleasant smell in spring", is preferred for walks in spring and autumn. Its system was due to the government director Johann Nepomuk von Raiser . Von Raiser worked from 1817 until his retirement in 1838 as the government director of the province of Swabia and Neuburg in Augsburg and was also active as a historian and archaeologist.
Although the poplars showed "lush growth", many trees were soon lost due to a wind break and an attack by animal wood pests that occurred around 1829 . They were replaced by ash trees in the 1830s, but they did not prove themselves as avenue trees at this location.
In 1858, coins from the Roman era were found on the town care ranger , presumably during horticultural work .
Partial development
In the course of the city's growth in the Wilhelminian era , large areas of the Stadtpflegeranger, located on the edge of the old town, were built on from around 1871. The Palace of Justice was built in the southern area from 1871 to 1875 , and from 1875 onwards it housed the Royal District and City Court . In the northern area, the Sankt Anna elementary school was built from 1872 to 1873 , which was initially an all- girls school . The building of the “Stadtpflegeranger-Schule”, built in the style of the neo-renaissance , is used today by the municipal St. Anna primary school and, in contrast to the founding years , this primary and former primary school has been attended by boys and girls for a long time.
During the earthworks for this partial development of the Angers, ancient finds from the Roman period came to light. In 1872 the Historical Association for Swabia and Neuburg announced, according to a report in the Augsburger Abendzeitung , that during the "earthworks on the Stadtpflegeranger (construction of the Palace of Justice and the new schoolhouse) [...] several interesting antiquities from Roman times were unearthed". The historical finds include numerous urns and, for example, a relief fragment , which - like other finds from the Stadtpflegeranger - is now in the possession of the Roman Museum Augsburg .
The construction or expansion of Schaezlerstrasse (from around 1870/71) and Volkhartstrasse (from around 1875), running in north-south direction, led to a further reduction in the size of the green area.
Today's city maintenance ranger
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Around 1970 a "history pillar" was set up on the Stadtpflegeranger, see section The "history pillar" .
Today the Stadtpflegeranger is bordered in the northeast by Volkhartstrasse, in the southeast by the street Am Alten Einlaß and in the southwest by Schaezlerstrasse, while the St. Anna Primary School adjoins the green area in the northwest. The earlier balsam poplars and ash trees have now been replaced by large chestnut trees .
The green area is up to about 80 centimeters higher than Volkhartstrasse and the sloping street corner to the street Am Alten Einlaß, which rises slightly as it continues and where the difference in height decreases to around 20 centimeters. Opposite the sidewalks of these two streets, the higher-lying green area is intercepted by a retaining wall made of precast exposed concrete . Two external stairs lead to the green area on Volkhartstrasse .
Around the Stadtpflegeranger the “Stadtpflegeranger-Schule” (St. Anna Primary School), the large house of the “Stadttheater” (today the State Theater Augsburg ), the Justice Palace and the library building of the State and City Library form an impressive ensemble. The four buildings belong to the ensemble Fuggerstrasse / Volkhartstrasse / Schaezlerstrasse , which is a comprehensive building ensemble under monument protection and is entered in the Bavarian monument list.
The "pillar of history"
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In or after 1970, a natural stone "history pillar" was set up in the middle of the Stadtpflegeranger at a fork in the road ( 
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The occasion, the creator and the exact date of the erection of this pillar of history are not known. The design and type of execution suggest a stone carving or artisanal stone carving work .
The inscriptions on the text panels and the base are, as is often found on memorial tablets and similar commemorative and memorial objects, in capital letters. In the case of word breaks due to line breaks on the boards, hyphens were sometimes dispensed with due to space restrictions.
The shaft of the column is composed of five so-called column drums and has an upwardly slightly tapered shank structure. Each column drum contains a round column section of the same height and diameter, from which four text panels are carved out in a cross shape on short connecting pieces. All text panels have the same dimensions and consist of an isosceles and mirror-symmetrical trapezoid that stands upright on its narrow side and widens towards the top (width = 17.5 / 22 cm, height = 24.5 cm). The text panels act like idealized coats of arms . In each of the five shaft sections, the text panels are inclined backwards, the length of the connecting pieces to the round shaft being shortened in sections from bottom to top, while the inclination of the panels aligned with one another remains the same. Overall, this results in a "slightly conical and somewhat squat effect" of the column.
The head of the column is designed as a stone pine , the landmark of Augsburg.
The base of the column consists of an octagonal plate on which, slightly set back, the round, stamp-like column base rises. A circular inscription commemorates the 15 BC. Roman army camp founded in BC and the later Roman provincial capital Augusta Vindelicum , to which the name of the city of Augsburg goes back:
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LEGIONS CAMP AUGUSTA VINDELICUM FOUNDED 15 BCE |
- Inscription on the base of the "history column"
Inscription (a)
Inscription (b)
Inscription (c)
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The selected events from the city's history are reproduced on the text panels in chronological order, starting in the lowest layer of the panels on the south side, then continuously “left” (or “right-hand”, clockwise ) in the individual shaft sections and ending in the topmost five layers on the east side.
| Shaft section (position) |
South side | West side | North side | East Side |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 (top) | INVENTION OF THE DIESEL ENGINE 1897 MAN |
AUGSBURG BECOMES A BIG CITY IN 1910 |
DESTRUCTION IN 1944/45 BY AIRPLANE ATTACKS |
1946-1970 reconstruction CONSTRUCTION AND EXPANSION OF THE CITY |
| 4th | AUGSBURG RELIGIONS PEACE 1555 |
1615–1620 ELIAS HOLL BUILDS THE NEW TOWN HALL |
PARITY IS INTRODUCED 1648 |
1806 AUGSBURG BECOMES A BAVARIAN CITY |
| 3 | 1516-1525 , THE Fuggerei BUILT |
REFORMATION 1525–1537 CONFESSIO AUGUSTANA 1530 |
Patricians DOMINATION 1548-1806 AGAIN KATH FAIRS |
ECONOMIC BLOOM 1490-1558 FUGGER WELSER |
| 2 | CITY LAW CITY REGISTER FREE CITY 1276 |
AUGSBURG BECOMES A FREE REICH CITY IN 1316 |
1326–1431 GOTHIC CONVERSION AND ADDITION OF THE DOM |
1368 GUILD REVOLUTION AND REIGN UP TO 1548 |
| 1 (lowest) | BATTLE ON THE LECHFELD 955 |
ROMAN DOM IS 996-1065 BUILT |
AUGSBURG 'S FIRST CITY LAW 1156 |
THE CITIZENS DEFEAT BISHOP HARTMANN 1251 |
- The "four sides" of the "pillar of history"
South side
West side
North side
East Side
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Web links
- City maintenance ranger . In: Augsburgwiki.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b See: School buildings from the 19th century >> 11a) Girls' school at Stadtpflegeranger. In: City of Augsburg , Lower Monument Protection Authority (Ed.): Open Monument Day 2011. "Romanticism, Realism, Revolution - The 19th Century". City of Augsburg, Augsburg 2011, p. 27 (brochure; digitized ; PDF, 2.9 MB; accessed on March 1, 2019).
- ↑ a b Augsburg . In: Der Hausfreund, an Augsburger Morgenblatt . No. 67 , March 8, 1846, p. 1 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ↑ Here . In: Augsburger Tagblatt . No. 92 , April 4, 1831 ( full text in Google book search).
- ↑ Maria Radnoti-Alföldi u. a. (Arr.): Swabia . In: The coins found in the Roman period in Germany . Dept. 1., Bavaria , volume 7 . Mann, Berlin 1962, ISBN 978-3-8053-4018-2 , pp. 33 .
- ^ Non-political newspaper >> Augsburg, 12 Aug. In: Augsburger Abendzeitung . No. 222 , August 14, 1872 ( full text in Google book search).
- ↑ Rudolf Schreiber: II. Augsburg under the Romans, proven on the basis of the existing monuments . In: Historischer Verein für Schwaben and Neuburg (Hrsg.): Journal of the Historischer Verein für Schwaben and Neuburg . Third year. Augsburg 1876, p. 76 ( full text in Google Book Search).
- ^ Gustav Gamer , Alfred Rüsch (arrangement, from the estate of Friedrich Wagner ): 1., Raetia (Bavaria south of the Limes) and Noricum (Chiemsee area) . In: Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute in Frankfurt am Main, Prehistoric State Collection Munich (ed.): Corpus signorum imperii Romani . Part: Germany , band 1 . Habelt, Bonn 1973, ISBN 3-7749-1272-6 , pp. 41 .
- ↑ List of monuments for Augsburg (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, monument number E-7-61-000-7
Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 10.4 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 30.1 ″ E