Volkspark Kleinzschocher
| Volkspark Kleinzschocher | |
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| South end of the rose parterre | |
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| place | Leipzig |
| District | Kleinzschocher |
| Created | 1928 |
| Surrounding streets | Kantatenweg, Antonienstraße |
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| Parking area | 70 ha |
The Volkspark Kleinzschocher is an urban park in the southwest of Leipzig .
location
The Volkspark Kleinzschocher comprises the floodplain area west of the White Elster between Antonienstraße, which borders it in the north, and several allotment gardens in the south. The cantata path forms the western border. The park has access from the densely populated areas Schleußig , Plagwitz and Kleinzschocher .
In the southeast and south of the area are the forest areas kitchen wood and tap wood, which are often assigned to the Volkspark due to the lack of delimitation. Together with these, the area covers an area of around 70 hectares.
Park description
The Volkspark Kleinzschocher comprises very different areas. From the north, you first come across strictly geometrical parts, such as the rose parterre and the perennial roundabout . With their benches, they create a place of rest. On the northern edge there is also one of the four Austrian monuments inaugurated in 1913 , which commemorate Austria's participation in the Battle of Leipzig in 1813.
To the east of these so-called special gardens is the Kleinzschocher summer pool, also known as the Schleuße because of its proximity to Schleußig, and a children's playground to the west. The kitchen wood avenue and an avenue lined with silver maple lead through this northern area to an approximately ten hectare meadow, the Struthwiese.
The Austrian Monument
On the rose ground floor
The Silberahorn-Allee
In the former castle park
The ginkgo tree
To the west of this meadow is the area of the former castle park of the Kleinzschocher estate. Formerly laid out in the English style , there are very valuable and old trees, including a trumpet tree , a ginkgo tree and a very tall yew tree . Here the network of trails is also more irregular.
To the north of the former palace park are the sports facilities of VfK Blau-Weiß Leipzig with the Stadium of Friendship, and to the south that of the Leipzig Sports Club Southwest.
The grove of trees of the year was laid out on a meadow between kitchen wood and tap wood. Every year from 1989 to 2014 a copy of the “Tree of the Year - Dr. Silvius Wodarz Foundation ”and its advisory board“ Kuratorium Baum des Jahres ”(KBJ) , the tree species selected as“ Tree of the Year ” for next year was planted on an artificial elevation. The year and the Latin and German names are carved into each of the 26 trees on an attached wooden post. From 2015, the campaign was relocated to the Green Arch in Paunsdorf.
history
While the area was still intended for development in the city's development plan from 1912, in the years after the First World War, in connection with the general creation of public parks, the intentions in favor of a park changed. In 1920 the meadow area was purchased from the Kleinzschocher manor. In 1928, the municipal gardening director Nicolaus Hermann August Molzen presented his design for the park, and work began. In connection with the release of the former estate park announced in the same year, the Neue Leipziger Zeitung spoke of "a jewel box for the west of Leipzig".
By the outbreak of the Second World War , the special gardens near Küchenholzallee, new paths and the wooded backdrop around Struthwiese were completed. In 1939 the meadows of the Volkspark were included in the 5th Reichsnährstands exhibition. Kleinzschocher Castle was badly damaged during the Second World War, so that it later had to be demolished, but its grounds were not included in the park.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the overgrown park area was restored and partially changed. The development of various areas by the Society for Sport and Technology during the GDR era has now been removed.
literature
- In the Leipzig Elsterland. Plagwitz, Schleußig, Kleinzschocher, Großzschocher, Knauthain, Knautkleeberg, Windorf, Hartmannsdorf. Verlag ProLeipzig, 1997, ISBN 3-9805368-3-1 .
Web links
- Volkspark Kleinzschocher on the website of the city of Leipzig
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Kantatenweg is named after Bach's farmer 's cantata , which was premiered on August 30, 1742 in Kleinzschocher Castle .
- ↑ Tree of the Year. In: Website of the city of Leipzig. Retrieved May 1, 2016 .
- ^ Neue Leipziger Zeitung of September 9, 1928
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 54.5 ″ N , 12 ° 20 ′ 3.5 ″ E