Witthausbusch
The Witthausbusch is the largest public park in the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr . The site was bought around 1900 by the city's beautification association, which included prominent Mülheim citizens such as Hugo Stinnes and August Thyssen , and created as a park. Today the facility is a popular local recreation area with large play and sunbathing areas. It is located about two kilometers southeast of the city center in the Menden-Holthausen district . The sponsor is the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr, Office for Green Space Management and Cemetery Management.
The large playground, the two game enclosures with mouflons and fallow deer and the duck ponds through which the Lohbach flows, a right tributary of the Ruhr, are particularly popular with children . In 2010, the petting zoo was converted into an enclosure with rare domestic and farm animal breeds, some of which are threatened with extinction. It is still possible to feed and stroke the animals, but now only through the fences or over them. The Mülheim pacifier tree can be found in the immediate vicinity of the playground .
Just above the Lohbach are the monuments to Gerhard Tersteegen ( I pray to the power of love ) and Hermann Adam von Kamp (May makes everything new).
The Witthausbusch is cordoned off to the south by a dam on which the federal highway 1 (B1) crosses the Lohbach. The stream is led here through a canal. Walkers who want to get directly from the Ruhr- Leinpfad to Witthausbusch have to cross the B1 in the confusing inner curve. From the west over the more densely wooded Kahlenberg a pedestrian bridge leads over the B1 to Witthausbusch.
The Witthausbusch is best reached by public transport: tram lines 112 or 104 (stops Witthausstraße or Oppspring), bus line 151 (stop Mendener Brücke), bus line 753 with stops at Mendener Brücke, Witthausstraße and Oppspring. Parking for cars is very limited in the nearby residential streets.
Web links
- Information about Witthausbusch on the website of the city of Mülheim
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '53 " N , 6 ° 53' 45" E