Meusslitz public park

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Meusslitz public park

The Volkspark Meußlitz is a park in the Dresden district of Meußlitz . Since Meußlitz was incorporated into the municipality of Zschachwitz in 1922 , the park is also known as the Volkspark Zschachwitz .

description

The Volkspark Meusslitz extends over an area of ​​about 1.2 hectares in the Dresden district of Meusslitz. It is bordered by Struppener Strasse, Johannes-Brahms-Strasse, Bernard-Shaw-Strasse and Strasse Am Sand. The park is home to some botanical specialties, such as one of two cucumber magnolias growing in Dresden and a rose hip pear . There is also a war memorial for those killed in the First World War from the communities of Großzschachwitz , Meußlitz and Sporbitz, as well as a small fountain in the park.

The park is under the property number 09218572 under monument protection and is designated as a protected landscape component of the city of Dresden. The former gardener's house, which has been converted into a residential building, is also a listed building (property number 09218574).

story

Ferdinand Wilhelm Bach, a silk merchant from Buchholz in the Ore Mountains , had a private landscape garden laid out on the grounds of today's Volkspark in 1828 . Bach, who had a close relationship with Pillnitz Castle , came across some botanical features for his gardens, some of which are still there today. For example, in addition to the cucumber magnolia and the rose hip pear , a copper beech , a hackberry and a sessile oak come from that time . Bach also had the garden equipped with curved paths, several sculptures, sandstone vases, seating groups and a fountain and bordered by a fence. The most striking was a sculpture of the psyche on a roundabout in the middle of the complex.

A mansion and a gardener's house were built in the complex. The mansion initially served as a weekend or summer home for the Timaeus family, the co-owners of Jordan & Timaeus , one of the first chocolate factories in Dresden . After later renovations, the Timaeus family lived in the manor house all year round. Other structures in the garden were a greenhouse to overwinter the exotic potted plants, a pleasure house and a gazebo called "Aurora Hall". Anna Louise Bach, the daughter of the gardener, married Johann Christian Eduard Timaeus, so that the complex became the private property of the Timaeus family. Katharina Otto, the daughter of Anna Timaeus and the last owner of the park from the family, had to sell the gardens and the associated buildings to the community of Zschachwitz in 1928 for financial reasons. The community opened the park to the public on May 17, 1929 with a solemn ceremony.

Refurbished bird drinking fountain (2010)

In 1934 the gardens were transformed into a public park. For this purpose, the garden area was expanded in a south-westerly direction and an area set up for various sports. Tennis was played on it in summer and an ice rink was built in winter. At the site of the sports facility there is now an allotment area . In the course of the redesign, the war memorial was also erected in 1934, designed by Otto Schubert and implemented by the sculptor Richard Becher . In addition, a bird drinking fountain was installed in the park, which is decorated with a plastic of a boy and a swan. During the redevelopment into the Volkspark, the system of curved paths was replaced by a horseshoe-shaped circular path. Most of the stone vases, seats and sculptures were lost during this time.

With the incorporation of Zschachwitz into Dresden in 1950, ownership of the site fell to the city of Dresden and the buildings came under the care of the municipal housing administration. The former manor house was used as an apartment building. During the time of the GDR , the park was only subject to a few other maintenance or conservation measures, but it was listed as a “protected park” in the Monument Protection Act.

After the fall of the Wall , the manor house and the gardener's house were spun off from the grounds of the Volkspark. The parking area became part of the Saxon Monument Protection Act .

The Elbe flood in 2002 caused massive damage to the park.

The bird drinking fountain, which fell victim to vandalism in the years after the Second World War (the statue of the boy with the swan also disappeared during this time), was rebuilt on the initiative of the local association Zschieren-Zschachwitz and the association Zschachwitzer Dorfmühle. Officially inaugurated May 2010.

Web links

Commons : Volkspark Meußlitz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Meusslitz. dresden.de, accessed on August 9, 2021 .
  2. ↑ a b Lars Herrmann: Meußlitz. dresdner-stadtteile.de, accessed on August 9, 2021 .
  3. ↑ Cultural monuments in the Free State of Saxony - Monument Document 09218572. (PDF; 582 KB) State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, accessed on August 9, 2021 .
  4. ^ Landscape plan of the state capital Dresden. (PDF; 5.7 MB) City of Dresden, Environment Agency, May 2018, accessed on August 10, 2021 .
  5. ↑ Cultural monuments in the Free State of Saxony - Monument Document 09218574. (PDF; 495 KB) State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, accessed on August 10, 2021 .
  6. ↑ a b c d e f Jana Nagel: A gem on the outskirts. Sächsische Zeitung, December 31, 2004, accessed on August 9, 2021 .
  7. ↑ a b c Opening of the Zschachwitz community park. Local association Zschieren-Zschachwitz, accessed on August 9, 2021 .
  8. ↑ Bird drinking fountain in the Zschachwitz public park. Local association Zschieren-Zschachwitz, accessed on August 9, 2021 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 53.2 ″  N , 13 ° 51 ′ 18.2 ″  E