Beautification club
A beautification association is an association that is committed to promoting the attractiveness of the site and landscaping in a community or region . This attractiveness is sought both in the immaterial interest of the residents of the area concerned and in the economic interest of tourism .
Typical measures are the beautification of the corresponding area by creating parks , flower competitions , viewing points , benches for strollers, etc.
Beautification associations often came into being during the period of increasing tourism in the second half of the 19th century. In addition to measures to increase the attractiveness of the townscape, they took on the advertising, mediation and care of guests and the maintenance of tourist facilities. Most of the associations were later renamed the tourist association or tourist association. Today they are mostly called tourism associations. In predicate health resorts, some of the tasks of the former beautification associations are now taken over by the municipalities or special purpose associations .
Examples
- The Stuttgart Beautification Association, founded in 1861, created a. a. several observation towers in Stuttgart : the Hasenberg tower , the Kriegsberg tower and the Killesberg tower .
- The Heilbronn Beautification Association, founded in 1863, built a. a. the Schweinsberg tower, renovated the tower on the Wartberg , expanded the Köpferbrunnen installation and created over 30 kilometers of walking paths.
- The Barmer Beautification Association (founded in 1864) laid out the well-known Barmer facilities (today in Wuppertal) and built the Toelleturm on it . Today the facilities are considered to be one of the largest publicly accessible private parks in Germany. The association still operates it today.
- The Elberfelder Beautification Association is a beautification association founded in 1870, which laid out the Hardt facilities in Wuppertal, the Friedenshöhe , Friedrichsberg , Mirker Hain and Nützenbergpark parks .
- In 1874, the Beautification Association , which still exists today, was founded in Würzburg with the plant physiologist Julius Sachs as its first chairman. The Beautification Association was involved in the development of the Ringpark and the Würzburg Steinbach Valley , built the Frankenwarte observation tower , among other things, and initiated the restoration of the Lusamgärtchen, known for its alleged tomb of the minstrel Walther von der Vogelweide .
- The Kassel Beautification Association built the Elfbuchenturm near Kassel in 1879 .
- The Echternach Beautification Association, founded in 1880, opened up the Echternach Wolfsschlucht in 1881 .
- The Verschönerungsverein Beilngries 1893 built 1901 Wodansburg , a monument with lookout over the Altmühltal .
There are also beautification associations abroad, for example in the Czech Republic, where they are called “Okrašlovací spolek” and in some cases took on new tasks (such as actions on the occasion of the laying of stumbling blocks , etc.).
literature
- Philipp Ludwig, Bettina Oppermann, Jochen Wolschke-Bulmahn: Always more beautiful. On the historical and open space planning significance of beautification associations . In: Die Gartenkunst 32. 1/2020, pp. 157–174.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beautification Association Würzburg e. V .: website .
- ^ University of Würzburg: on Julius von Sachs as the father of plant physiology ( memento of October 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ).
- ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1231.
- ↑ Winfried Schenk, Rüdiger Glaser , Moritz Nestle: Würzburg's environment in the transformation from the pre-industrial era to the service society. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2 (I: From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasant War. 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 ; II: From the Peasant War 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria 1814. 2004, ISBN 3 -8062-1477-8 ; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume III (2007), Pp. 351-368 and 1295 f., Here: p. 366.
- ^ Stefan Gröschler: Wodansburg Beilngries .
- ↑ See e.g. B. the report on the laying of five Stolpersteine in Lomnice u Tišnova 2011 by the beautification association "Okrašlovací spolek pro Lomnici a okolí", Stolpersteine v Lomnici , online at: oslomnice.cz / ...