Wehbers Park

The Wehbers Park is a public since 1926 park in Hamburg's Eimsbüttel . It extends over approx. 2.6 hectares and is bordered by Fruchtallee, Emilienstraße, Doormannsweg and the gardens of Tornquiststraße. Its name is reminiscent of the wine merchant Georg Heinrich Wehber, who had it built as a private park in 1852.

construction

Wehbers Park can be entered from Emilienstraße and Doormannsweg and crossed on a paved path. To the north of this path there is a fenced-in area with various activities aimed primarily at children: a playhouse , a playground and an oval paddling pool surrounded by clinker stones, which can be reached from the playground via a meadow. To the south of the path there is a large meadow with trees, arcades and a skating facility.

On Emilienstraße there is a two-story villa in Wehbers Park, a former country house that the son of the wine merchant Wehber had the architect Grotjan rebuilt in neo-renaissance style in 1881/82 . After the city acquired the property, the villa was made available to the Committee for Infant and Toddler Institutions as a day care center and is still used today as a day care center .

The Hamburg-Haus Eimsbüttel is located on Doormannsweg , a public meeting place that was opened on June 1, 1965. The Hamburg-Haus houses, among other things, the Eimsbüttel location of the public library , a parents' school , a senior citizens' club and a girls' center.

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  Paddling pool

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  playground

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  Hamburg House

history

Wehbers Park was inaugurated in 1926 as the second public park in the district. The park had previously been open to the general public for 50 years, but was privately owned by the Wehber family. Wine merchant Georg Heinrich Wehber had it laid out on Eimsbütteler Chaussee (now Fruchtallee) in 1852. The purchase agreement between the city and the heirs of the property was signed in 1924. Afterwards, under the direction of Otto Linne, the park was redesigned to create a public park , which was intended to offer residents of all ages and social classes an opportunity to relax. Linne divided the systems into different areas with specific functions. An old people's garden protected by hedges was created, as well as a flower garden, a large enclosed sand playground and a paddling pool with putti by the German sculptor Georg Wienbrack from 1925 and a sandy beach. The lawn was divided into a toddler area and a play and sunbathing area for older children, young people and adults. At the end of the entrance from Fruchtallee, a toilet facility was built, a clinker brick building with a copper-covered hip roof based on a design by Fritz Schumacher . At the time, the total size of the park was around 1.8 hectares.

Like many green spaces in Hamburg, Wehbers Park suffered damage from the Second World War and the post-war period . It was restored in 1952/53 and received extensive new play facilities from 1955 to 1957, supported by the German-American Women's Club. The small-scale structure of the park was removed, so that more spacious areas were created. The paddling pool was given a new green area instead of the sandy beach, and there were no putti. A playhouse was built in 1956 on a piece of land acquired in the meantime on Emilienstraße.

The Wehbers Park was very well received by the population from the start, but due to its small size, it was unable to meet the need for public green spaces. The aim of the Hamburg city planners was to create a contiguous Eimsbüttler green corridor from the Apostle Church to the Hoheluftbrücke. At the beginning of the 1960s, the construction work had progressed so far that one could get to the Christ Church through green areas via Wehbers Park . However, in the second half of the 1960s, for reasons of traffic policy, the breakthrough of the Doormannsweg followed, so that the facility was divided by a road lane.

literature

• Sielke Salomon, published by the Morgenland gallery: An urban compensation: Building and living in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel 1950 - 1968. Dölling and Galitz Verlag , Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-933374-77-4 .
• Joachim Grabbe: District to fall in love with. A walk through Hamburg-Eimsbüttel and its history. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-86680-323-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Playhouse Wehbers Park
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Salomon, pp. 157-158.
3. ^ Kita Emilienstraße, Association of Hamburger Kindertagesstätten  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ The Hamburg House Eimsbüttel
5. ↑ Grabbe, p. 49.
6. ^ Heinz Zabel: Plastic Art in Hamburg - Sculptures and sculptures in public space , Dialog-Verlag, Reinbek 1986, ISBN 3-923707-15-0 , page 43.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Salomon, pp. 164-165.

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 17.8 "  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 18.4"  E