Von-Alten-Garten

Von Alten Garden as a landscape park (2008)

The Von-Alten-Garten is an approximately 7.5 hectare public park in Hanover , which is located in the Linden-Mitte district . It is located at the foot of the Lindener Berg directly on the Westschnellweg .

history

Baroque Linden Castle in the Von Alten Garden (1912), destroyed in 1945

View from Lindener Berg over the Von Alten Garden around 1895–1905

The gardens developed from the von Alten family's Linden estate, which had existed since the 13th century and comprised around 56 hectares of land, hunting rights, jurisdiction and various tithe . In 1688 the family leased the property to Franz-Ernst von Platen , court marshal to Duke Ernst August, for economic reasons . He needed a manor for a seat in the state parliament and concluded a temporary usage contract for the property. When in 1689 this helped him achieve the title of imperial count and prime minister, he expanded the estate. From this the settlement of Neu-Linden developed with various facilities such as dairy , brick and oil mill . Von Platen had the baroque Linden Castle built by Brand Westermann on his property in 1692 and at the same time a French baroque garden was laid out by René Dahuron . These included water basins with fountains , orchards, hedgerows , kitchen gardens, ponds with fish farming, as well as swans , an orangery and a zoo.

Another garden in Linden was the 1652 kitchen garden Linden for the residence of the Guelph rulers of the Principality of Calenberg in the Hanoverian Leineschloss . This was some distance north of the Von-Alten-Garten.

After the death of Franz-Ernst von Platen in 1709, the maintenance decreased. His son Ernst August had the garden surrounded with a four meter high wall in 1718. In 1728, according to the contract, the garden was due to be returned to the von Alten family. That led to decades of litigation. As a result, the complex garden design was abandoned and the complex was converted into an English landscape garden from 1800 , as it still exists today. In 1816, Carl von Alten , who was promoted to count, bought the estate back. From 1830 onwards, the newly established industrial operations in Linden were crowding the green area.

In 1927, placing the palace and the garden under protection prevented further sale as building land. In April 1945, the wooden castle was hit by an incendiary bomb during one of the air raids on Hanover and it burned down to the stone foundation.

present

Park wall erected in 1718 when looking at the Deisterkreisel with high bunker, on the right gate opening to the former wax bleaching facility

From 1950 the West Schnellweg was built, which crosses the Von-Alten-Garten. As a result, a large part of the garden was lost. To the south of the expressway, a longer piece of the surrounding wall from 1718 runs parallel, a gate opening has also been preserved. In 1961 the city of Hanover acquired a six hectare area of the garden to make it accessible to the population as a park. Facilities such as the IGS Linden , a kindergarten and a supervised play park with a public playground were created in the park.

In 1997 the von Alten family sold the former and previously inaccessible parterre garden of the castle to the city. This resulted in a park section of 1.5 hectares that is only open during the day for EXPO 2000 . At the site of the destroyed castle, the terrace and grotto have been preserved, and sculptures have been restored. In this area there is a tree population of around 250 years.

Linden 1763 with Georgenschanzen on Lindener Berg , Von-Alten-Garten (middle) and kitchen garden (above)
Site plan of the garden 1789
Gatehouse of the garden from 1911
Balustrade and terrace of the former castle
Access in the Niemeyerstraße

literature

Working group human-nature-history (Hanover): Linden: local history, Martinskirche, von Altensches Rittergut, sovereign kitchen garden, ducal hunting arsenal, villa on the Lindener Berg, stately warehouse, windmill / AG Mensch-Natur-Geschichte. Based on the arrangements by Arnold Nöldeke from 1932, series "Zur Geschichte Lindens", Vol. 13; Hanover 2003

Web links

Commons : Von-Alten-Garten (Hannover) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Helmut Knocke : Westermann, Brand. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 673.

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[1] Helmut Knocke : Westermann, Brand. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 673.