Steinfurter Bagno

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Island with ruins, one of the five islands in Steinfurt's Bagnosee
Close up of the ruin

The Steinfurter Bagno is a park near Burgsteinfurt in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is part of the nature reserve Am Bagno - Buchenberg . The concert hall in the Steinfurter Bagno is a special attraction .

history

Founded by Count Karl Paul Ernst von Bentheim-Steinfurt in 1765, the park arose from the desire to create a summer residence for the count's family in front of Burgsteinfurt Castle in the still untouched part of the Sundern. Initially designed as a purely French garden , which was characterized by straight lines and geometric shapes, the expansion of the park was limited to the area around the concert gallery until 1775. With the takeover of the county by Count Ludwig from 1780, the layout of Greece, Egypt and the expansion of the lake were created. At the same time, oriental and Far Eastern elements were included in the design of the facilities. In 1787 the first floor plan of the Bagnos, published by the French engraver Georges Louis Le Rouge in Paris, recorded 105 different buildings, water features, bridges, venues, statues, islands, gardens and paths, some of which were close to one another on the relatively small area of ​​125 hectares built, distributed.

The increasing criticism of the excessive number of objects and architectural styles and the English horticultural culture that has now come into fashion , which saw nature as a determining element of a park, also led to a fundamental change in the Bagno. Various 'attractions' that were considered out of date disappeared and new ones were added. Straight paths were converted into meandering paths, artificial but wild water cascades were created, large lawns were created and foreign trees were planted.

The Bagno developed into the most important park in Westphalia. It had extraordinary water features , a famous court chapel, exotic buildings, a lake on which numerous ornate small ships sailed and a sovereign who had opened the park to everyone.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the Bagno was still waving visitors from near and far on Sundays. The year 1806 marked a turning point in the development of the park. Napoleon's vassals annexed the County of Steinfurt and demoted Count Ludwig to a subject. He traveled to Paris to visit Napoleon personally and to regain his lost position. The negotiations were unsuccessful and resulted in Count Ludwig not returning from Paris to Burgsteinfurt until 1817, where he died in the same year. His son Alexis, who had already taken over the county from 1806, received the facilities of the Bagnos in a makeshift manner, but had to demolish most of the buildings due to the high renovation and maintenance costs. In 1828 only 16 of the original 39 structures remained, of which three are still in place today, some of them in their original state.

Concert hall in the Steinfurter Bagno

As part of the Regionale 2004 , the Bagnopark was redesigned for 4.1 million euros with state funds. The concert gallery in particular has become an attraction. The Bagnopark has been a member of the European Garden Heritage Network since 2006 .

literature

  • Karl Georg Döhmann: The Bagno, history of the Fürstlich Bentheimschen Park Bagno near Burgsteinfurt. 2 parts, Burgsteinfurt 1907, 1909.
  • Dirk Strohmann: The concert hall in the Bagno Park Burgsteinfurt. Ways to restore a monument. Münster 1987.
  • Hans-Walter Pries: The Steinfurter Bagno. Old descriptions and views (=  series of publications of the district home association Steinfurt . Volume 5 ). Greven 1988.
  • Dirk Strohmann: The concert gallery in the Burgsteinfurter Bagno . In: Westphalia (=  booklets for history, art and folklore . Volume 67 ). Munster 1989.
  • Wolfgang Lübbers: The Bagno near Burgsteinfurt - attempt at a reconstruction. Steinfurt 1992.
  • Bernard Korzus: The Bagno in Steinfurt . In: Harry Günther (Hrsg.): Gardens of the Goethe time . Leipzig 1993.
  • Bernard Korzus: 1792 in the New Garden in Potsdam . In: Walking again in the old park, contributions to the history of garden art ... Potsdam 1993.
  • Wolfgang Lübbers: The Bagno in Steinfurt - A garden from the time of Goethe. Steinfurt 1997.

Web links

Commons : Steinfurter Bagno  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nature reserve “Am Bagno - Buchenberg” in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on February 23, 2017.

Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 26 ″  N , 7 ° 21 ′ 24 ″  E