Wilhelmshain Forest Park
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| Basic data | |
| place | Hanerau-Hademarschen |
| Created | 1812-1816 |
| Surrounding streets | Mannhardtstrasse |
| Buildings | Bronze sculpture, entrance gate Waldfriedhof |
| use | |
| User groups | Pedestrians , leisure |
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| Parking area | 100,000 m² |
The Waldpark Wilhelmshain is a park in Hanerau-Hademarschen in the German state Schleswig-Holstein . At the eastern entrance to Hanerau-Hademarschen there is the manor house from 1835 on the Mühlenteich. Walking paths through the park belonging to the estate lead to old cascades, clearings or grottos, as well as to a bronze sculpture of the poet Theodor Storm , who liked to walk in the park.
Forest cemetery
The forest cemetery in the park is unique in northern Germany and was laid out in 1805 by the then squire Johann-Wilhelm Mannhardt according to the rules of the Moravian Brethren . The Herrnhuter Gottesacker in Herrnhut , which was laid out in 1730, served as a model , on which the Brethren first implemented their ideas of equality before death and rest before resurrection in the form of a divine artery.
The church in Hanerau is divided into six fields. The broad middle ground separates the sexes. In the upper third are married people, whose graves are arranged in mirror image. The two middle fields were initially only intended for young men and virgins, the lower for children. All those who had died were buried with their heads facing east.
Cemetery structure
Cemetery gate from the cemetery side
middle way
Cemetery gate detail
Storm sculpture
The life-size bronze sculpture of the writer Theodor Storm was inaugurated on May 19, 1993 and was the third monument to commemorate the poet when it was erected . It was created by the sculptor Werner Löwe from Thuringia. Before that, there had been the Storm bust created by Adolf Brütt in Husum's castle park since 1898 and the sculpture in the Heilbad Heiligenstadt inaugurated in 1988 .
According to tradition, Storm liked to stay at the current location of the sculpture at the forest cemetery during his time in Hademarschen. Storm's daughter Gertrud described in her memoirs: " It was one of my father's secret friends to lead his guests to a small Mennonite churchyard hidden in the park in Hanerau (meaning the forest cemetery described above). Through the graceful one in the shade of old chestnut trees Hanerau village it went over meadows and secluded forest paths through a lively gate to this peaceful corner of the earth. When our guest, completely absorbed in the conversation, suddenly saw himself in a quiet, green cemetery, my father had the surprise once again. "
Forest park
Between 1812 and 1816, to the west of the access road to the estate, the park was laid out in the style of English landscape gardens and was also named Wilhelmshain after the commissioning lord of the manor Mannhardt . With deciduous and coniferous trees as well as terraced fishponds, the park combined forest and fishing use with aesthetic and social demands on ten hectares. The forest park is considered to be the first public garden in Schleswig-Holstein.
Ponds
Forest path
Statue Theodor Storm
Stones along the way
State tree nursery
Wilhelm Mannhardt (1800–1890) founded the so-called state tree nursery south-east of the park near Gokels on March 4, 1846 , the aim of which was to reforest the extensive heather and wasteland areas of Schleswig-Holstein. The tree nursery became a pioneer and sponsor of the " Heidekulturverein für Schleswig-Holstein" founded in 1872 . There is a memorial stone for the founder of the state tree nursery in the forest that has grown to around 50 hectares today.
literature
- New general German garden and flower newspaper, Volume 1, 1846, online
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Garden routes: Waldpark Wilhelmshain
- ↑ The forest cemetery in Hanerau
- ↑ Hans-Jürgen Kühl: Two reasons to celebrate - Heimatbund celebrated its 25th anniversary and 26th anniversary of the Storm sculptures inauguration, newsletter for Mittelholstein from May 24, 2019
- ^ Walter Hase: Outline of the forest and forest history of Schleswig-Holstein in the last millennium. In: Schr. Naturwiss. Ver. Schleswig-Holst. Volume 53, Dec 1983, pp. 83-124
- ^ Forests as a life's work of four generations
Coordinates: 54 ° 7 ′ 6.2 ″ N , 9 ° 26 ′ 16.4 ″ E