Von Bernus Park

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The Bockenheimer Schloss with park in 1820, view from the southeast. Copper engraving by Johann Friedrich Morgenstern

The Von-Bernus Park in the local parlance as shortening Bernuspark called, is a 1.5  hectare large public park in Frankfurt district of Bockenheim . The park was created as a private park in 1771 on the edge of the then independent village of Bockenheim. This happened at the instigation of Princess Henriette Amalie von Anhalt-Dessau (a daughter of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau ), who had acquired a country estate with a manor house there and had it expanded into her residence in the form of a small castle. The buildings on the property were largely destroyed by aerial bombs during the air raids on Frankfurt am Main during World War II and were never rebuilt.

history

Princess Henriette Amalie of Anhalt-Dessau

Henriette Amalie von Anhalt-Dessau (1720–1793) was banned from the Anhalt farm at the age of 21 due to the birth of an illegitimate son by her father Leopold I and was forcibly placed in a women's monastery. In 1753 she moved to the village of Bockenheim, which was then part of the County of Hanau, and bought the country estate mentioned and in the following years the neighboring properties and farms. The princess was there farms - fruit and vegetable cultivation, livestock, wine -Anbau and cider -Kelterei - set up that were to economic success. Among other things, she housed her art collection in the country estate expanded into a residence and had the garden on the property converted into a park. In 1792, Henriette Amalie fled the approaching French revolutionary troops back to Dessau and died there the following year. It was not until 1822 that the street leading past her “Schlösschen” was renamed Schloßstraße .

Location and design of the park

Location of von Bernus Park (around 1873)
The "temple" (not preserved) in the western corner of the park in 1900

The original square plan of Von Bernus Park was dissolved after 1945 through the sale of peripheral parts of the complex as building land; the current layout of the park is therefore an irregular polygon. The design of the remaining part of the complex reveals the influences of the architecture of the English landscape garden . Despite the limited area of ​​1.5 hectares, the garden architecture design tried at the time the park was built to create perspective impressions from afar.

A special feature of the Bernuspark is its stock of valuable exotic trees. These include the American Gleditschia ( Gleditsia triacanthos ), the hickory nut ( Carya ), the tulip tree ( Liriodendron ) and the bubble tree ( Koelreuteria ). In the middle of the park is a small pond with an asymmetrically shaped floor plan, which was created in the 18th century at the same time as the palace was built. The narrow ornamental bridge made of quarry stone masonry , which crosses the pond at its narrowest point in its center, also dates from this time . The pond is completely enclosed by a park path, stone stairs and an artificially created sandy bay lead to the shore. Since the body of water has no natural inflow, it is fed with groundwater extracted for this purpose .

Pond with a decorative bridge from the 18th century in the Von Bernus Park

Von-Bernus-Park is completely enclosed by walls and fences and has a total of four entrances: from Schloßstraße, Werrastraße, Schönhofstraße and from Salvador-Allende-Straße. The wrought iron gate from Schönhofstraße with pillars made of red sandstone is a remnant of the original system from the 18th century.

Von Bernus Park was renovated from 2014 to 2015. For this purpose, the footpaths were significantly expanded and re-paved, the Schloßstrasse entrance widened, the green areas partially reduced and extensive clearing of the existing wood. The historic park wall was broken through from the adjacent Salvador-Allende-Straße to the north, its remains were restored and a new additional entrance was created. The low wall of the ornamental bridge over the pond was provided with a railing, and the park's benches were renewed.

Transport links

Due to the high peripheral buildings with multi-storey houses and the boundary walls, Von-Bernus-Park looks a bit inconspicuous from the outside and can easily be overlooked from the perspective of the traffic from the main road Schloßstraße. The closest stop for the Rhein-Main S-Bahn is the Westbahnhof station , a few minutes 'walk away , and the VgF bus line 36 also stops a few minutes' walk away at the Adalbert- / Schloßstraße stop . There are also some parking spaces for motorized individual traffic on Schloßstraße.

literature

  • Frank Blecken: Historical parks in Frankfurt am Main. In: Tom Koenigs (ed.): City parks - Urban nature in Frankfurt am Main. Campus, Frankfurt / New York 1993, ISBN 3-593-34901-9 , pp. 80-117.
  • Magistrate of the City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (ed.): City waters - lakes, ponds, ponds . Frankfurt am Main, 2003. Therein: Chapter pond in Von-Bernus-Park, p. 18.
  • Sonja Thelen: Green Frankfurt. A guide to more than 70 parks and facilities in the city . B3 Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-938783-19-1 .

Web links

Commons : Von-Bernus-Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sonja Thelen: Green Frankfurt, p. 45 f.
  2. ↑ a b c d Environment Agency of the City of Frankfurt: Stadtgewässer, p. 18
  3. ^ Blecken: Historical parks in Frankfurt am Main, p. 108 f .: Bernuspark
  4. ^ The Von Bernus Park on frankfurt.de
  5. ↑ http://www.fnp.de/lokales/frankfurt/Einstiger-Schlosspark-wird-saniert;art675,751563

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 18.5 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 15 ″  E