Perennial Garden (Dresden)

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Neustädter Elbe bank around 1940 in winter: the undestroyed Frauenkirche can be seen under the arch of Ernst Moritz Geyger 's archer , who was erected in 1936 . On the right edge is centered the perennial garden, behind the overall ministry .

The perennial garden is a small park on the Neustädter Elbufer in the inner Neustadt of Dresden . It is located between the Saxon State Chancellery (formerly the entire ministry) on Carolaplatz and the Neustädter bridgehead of the Albert Bridge on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz . Riverside it is the deeper Elberadweg limited, on the side which connects elbabgewandten Wigardstraße the two space systems.

Both the perennial garden and the neighboring rose garden belong to the Königsufer and are under monument protection.

In Dresden, the perennial garden also refers to a small area ( )World icon in the Great Garden north of the Summer Palace between Herkulesallee and Hauptallee, the rhododendron garden of which was donated in 1895 by the gardener Hermann Seidel , father-in-law of the royal gardening director Friedrich Bouché .

history

Sundial in the perennial garden

The relocation of the Saxon military from the fortified Neustadt to Albertstadt in the last third of the 19th century opened up new building sites. With the construction of the Albert and Carolabrücke bridges, as well as the forecourt of the bridge and new streets, this area was developed in terms of infrastructure, and at the turn of the century several ministerial buildings in today's government district were built .

Perennial carpet beds after the reconstruction
Opportunity to relax at the State Chancellery

In 1910, under city planning officer Hans Erlwein , there was an urban development competition to design the Königsufer as a park. This should permanently prevent further bank development, as it is characteristic on the old town side.

Under city gardening director Heinrich Balke , the perennial garden, lined with hornbeam hedges , was finally laid out in 1934/1935 as a special garden with flat perennial carpets for the 1936 Reichsgartenschau . In that year the archer was set up in the perennial garden, it is a replica of the original in Potsdam by Ernst Moritz Geyger from 1902. Later additions include the sundial created in 1940, which marks the geographical measuring point of Dresden, and the free sculpture standing boy, sculpted in bronze by Christine Heitmann in 1984 .

After an inventory was made in 2005 and the monument conservation objective in the following year, plans were made for a reconstruction true to the original, taking into account changed factors such as tree growth. The construction work took place in the second half of 2009. For the implementation, the Saxon State Ministry for Environment and Agriculture awarded first place in the category of landscape gardening specialties in the competition “Prize of Saxon gardening and landscaping 2010” .

Sources and further references

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Information on the perennial garden on the Königsufer ( memento from December 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 12 KB), City of Dresden
  2. ↑ Hartmut Ellrich : Dresden 1933-1945: The historical travel guide . Ch. Links Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-498-3 , p. 35 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Prizes awarded for gardening and landscaping ( Memento from December 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), press release from the Saxon State Ministry for Environment and Agriculture, October 30, 2010.

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 26.7 ″  N , 13 ° 45 ′ 4 ″  E