Wandsbeker wood

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Wandsbeker wood in the 19th century, in the background the towers of Hamburg's main churches (lithography by JCC Meyn )
Claudius memorial stone with plaque

The Wandsbeker Gehölz is a 26.6 hectare public park in the Hamburg district of Marienthal , Wandsbek district . The forest strip, which is around two kilometers long and up to 200 meters wide, is a remnant of the former Wandsbeker estate. The associated castle was built at the end of the 18th century by the merchant and slave trader Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann , who also had the palace gardens redesigned.

In 1857 the merchant Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carstenn bought the estate, parceled it out and sold the first near the castle for the construction of a villa colony based on the English model, today's Marienthal. When Carstenn also wanted to put down the wooded area, the Wandsbeker Fleckenverwaltung decided to buy it.

location

The local recreation area stretches from Wandsbeker Marktplatz in the west to Osterkamp in the east and is divided into four trees by the Hamburg-Lübeck railway line and two streets. It is connected to the local public transport network via the Wandsbek-Markt underground station , the Hamburg-Wandsbek regional train station and several bus routes.

Attractions

The Wandsbeker history stone is located at the entrance to the first wood in front of the parish hall of the Christ Church in Marienthal . The boulder, which is controversial among historians and contains the most important data on Wandsbeck's history, was erected in 1937 by the Wandsbeck city administration on the occasion of the union with Hamburg . The partially incorrect information and the thanks to the "Führer" were chiseled out and only insufficiently changed. Originally it was on the Wandsbeker market square near today's Wandsbeker Marktstrasse, then, because of the construction of the Wandsbeker bus station, at the entrance of the second wood in Marienthal, again for a few years in Wandsbek directly in front of the church, before joining the train in 2005 the redesign of the square in front of the church and the Schimmelmann mausoleum was moved to its current location in Marienthal. In return, a sandstone vase previously set up here was relocated from the former palace park with another vase to the south side of the Wandsbeck market square.

A little further in the first wood there is a memorial stone for Matthias Claudius . It was built in 1840 for the 100th birthday of the poet in what was then the palace park and, when the palace park was parceled out in 1861, it was moved to the area of ​​the Robert Schuman Bridge and finally to its current location in Marienthal.

A statue of a Roman warrior, which was formerly also set up in the woods, has been in the courtyard of the Museum of Hamburg History for several years for conservation reasons .

At the beginning of the fourth wood on what is now Kielmannseggstraße, the popular restaurant Groß Jüthorn used to be. A smaller restaurant called Klein Jüthorn was at the end of the second wood.

In the fourth wood, walking paths, ditches and ponds for the former Hotel Marienthal on Oktaviostraße were created in the formerly swampy area.

  • The controversial Wandsbeker history stone at the entrance to the first wood

  • Panel on the history of the wood

  • Roman warrior

  • Castle park design by Carl Gottlob Horn (1767/68)

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 4 "  N , 10 ° 5 ′ 21"  E