Cube meadow
The Würfelwiese , formerly also known as Kleine Wiese, Kohlwiese or Police Park , is a listed park in the northern city center of Halle (Saale) . It forms the northern tip of the Klaustorvorstadt and is surrounded by the Mühlgraben to the east and north and the Saale to the west . Located in the immediate vicinity of Moritzburg , it opens up access to the Saale valley from the city center. In the register of monuments of the city of Halle , the Würfelwiese is listed as a park and architectural monument under registration number 094 56564.
history
Up until the Reformation , the meadow area belonged to the nearby Neuwerk Monastery , whose monks maintained a cabbage and kitchen garden here, hence the former name "Kohlwiese".
After the abbey was dissolved in 1532, the area was transferred to the New Abbey and, after its abolition in 1541, to the Giebichenstein Office and was primarily used to mine saltpeter .
In June 1547 the troops of Emperor Charles V camped here , who came to Halle from the battlefield near Mühlberg as a victor against the Schmalkaldic League and held court for 12 days at the residence at the cathedral .
In the early 17th century, the administrators of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg , who resided at Moritzburg until it was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , included the Kohlwiese in the grounds of the magnificently designed Prince Gardens.
Between 1720 and 1740 the area also served as a parade ground for the Prussian regiment stationed in Halle under Prince Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau.
Presumably since the Middle Ages - the exact time is unknown - an old Halle folk festival, the so-called garlic Wednesday , was celebrated here. Every year on Pentecost Wednesday, stands were set up offering food and trinkets or inviting people to play games of luck, dice and lottery tickets, so that people soon spoke of the "dice meadow". The rich consumption of garlic at the festival should provide good health for the whole year.
In 1868 the city magistrate acquired the site and the Hallische Beautification Association began to create paths and plantings. The wide tree-lined avenue to the Dreierbrücke was also created, from where you could gain access to the Ziegelwiese for a "Dreier" from the lock master . In 1870, the city police administration issued a mandate that forever prohibited the holding of Garlic Wednesday on the Würfelwiese. The official reason given was to protect the new facilities.
With the establishment of the Knoblauchmittwochsgesellschaft in 2002, the custom of Garlic Wednesday was revived on the Würfelwiese.
Monuments
- Near the bank of the Saale there is an obelisk with the inscription: The brave Prussians and Russians who were wounded in the fight for German freedom in the Battle of Leipzig on October 18 and 19, 1813 and who died here . With this monument, donated in 1814, the "combined masonry in Halle" commemorated the former burial ground from the time after the Battle of the Nations, which was located here.
- A relic of the burial ground is a stone cube, which was erected as a memorial for the Halle citizen Carl Wilhelm le Veaux by the Schützen-Gesellschaft with the inscription: He died on July 11th, 1817. His ashes rest gently .
- An obelisk over two meters high was erected on the main promenade in 1885 to commemorate the chairman of the Hallischer Beautification Association, Judiciary Hermann Fiebiger, who died in 1882.
- The scientific writer and head of Halle's Turner fire brigade , Otto Ule , had three peace oaks planted on April 11, 1871 in the Mühlgraben meadow to commemorate the end of the Franco-Prussian War , and a memorial stone was placed in the middle one year later.
Today's usage and importance
The Würfelwiese with its remarkable tree and woody stock and generous meadow areas can be reached via the Palatinate Bridge, the Dreierbrücke and the Robert-Franz-Ring. Today it serves in particular as a recreation area for the population. Another bridge to the Saline Park on the opposite Saline Island is planned.
Seats and loungers have been set up on the Saale, and there is a playground for children with a ship as a climbing frame. There are also sports facilities through a football field and a separate street ball court , as well as a publicly designated barbecue area.
The Würfelwiese singing has established itself as a tradition, to which the Halle Community Foundation has been inviting people every Wednesday from May to September since 2011.
The Würfelwiese was last flooded by the Saale floods in 2011 and 2013.
literature
- Siegmar von Schultze-Galléra : Topography or history of houses and streets in the city of Halle ad Saale. Second volume, first half: Suburbs and urban extensions Southern semicircle. Verl. Wilhelm Hendrichs, Halle 1921, reprint , Verlag Rockstuhl , Bad Langensalza 2018, ISBN 978-3-95966-306-9 , pp. 17-20.
- Werner Piechocki : City Guide Halle (Saale) . Edited by City committee of the German Association for Hiking, Mountaineering and Orienteering of the GDR, Halle 1985, without ISBN. Pp. 65-67.
Web links
- Die Würfelwiese on www.hallesaale.info Retrieved on October 2, 2019
- Würfelwiese on Halle in the picture.Retrieved on October 2, 2019
- Community Foundation Halle: Singing on the Würfelinsel Accessed October 2, 2019
Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 12.7 " N , 11 ° 57 ′ 32.8" E