Von-Wedelstaedt-Park

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Postcard with a view of the park and gardener's cottage 1905

The off-Wedelstaedt Park is a green area in Gelsenkirchen - Ückendorf , named after its founder Carl von Wedelstaedt .

In 1898 the last bailiff of the then still independent village of Ückendorf had 20 acres of land bought for a community park. The money came from a Volksgarten fund established by the Gelsenkirchen district. In the years 1899/1900 Von Wedelstaedt had Ludwig Simon, later Gelsenkirchen's city garden inspector, build the park, which had the "character of a wood with shady paths, individual clearings and beautiful views". The designs resulting from a competition were carried out by city gardener Adolf Jensen from Oberhausen and garden architect Reinhold Hoemann from Düsseldorf.

Shortly after 1900, a gardener's house was built in the style of a Swiss half-timbered house, plus several animal enclosures. The latter are no longer preserved today.

In 1903 Ückendorf was incorporated into the new city of Gelsenkirchen, and the park was expanded to five hectares.

The now about nine hectare forest park in the south of Gelsenkirchen (therefore often also called Südpark) has an artificial pond with a fountain, a curved network of paths, lawns and a children's playground.

The sculpture forest of the Rheinelbe slag heap borders the site to the southwest . To the north is the Ückendorf comprehensive school.

To the southeast of the main park entrance is the "Lindenstein", also known locally as the "Lindelstein" granite boulder.

“Lindenstein”, shrouded in legend - this erratic boulder lay in the shadow of a linden tree on the village square in Ückendorf, roughly where Ückendorfer Platz is today. it marked the place where the peasants gathered, where judgments were held until the 18th century and justice was pronounced by peasant judges. "

- Inscription Lindenstein

According to a legend, a giant from the Tippelsberg is said to have thrown the stone.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City of Gelsenkirchen, landscape planning area 13 Rotthausen / Ückendorf, natural monument No. 5 (PDF; 116 kB)
  2. ^ Photo of the tablet on Gelsenkirchen stories
  3. ↑ The legendary Ruhr area, The Giants from Mechtenberg and Tippelsberg

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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 33.7 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 4.1 ″  E