Beethovenpark (Köln) – Wikipedia
The Beethovenpark , One of the numerous green areas of the city of Cologne, which was created in the 1920s, is a predominantly natural landscape park with a connected special garden.
The now 40.4 hectare park is located in the southwest of Cologne, in the Sülz district. It extends between the Neuenhöfer Allee in the north, the Berrenrather Straße in the east as well as the Castellauner Straße or the allotment garden Sülz in the west. In the south, beyond the military ring, the park passes into the outer green belt.
The Beethovenpark, named after Ludwig van Beethoven, was created in the 1920s in connection with the system of the outer green belt. According to the plans of Mayor Konrad Adenauer, the outer fortress belt should be transformed into a forest and meadow belt according to the model of the garden city. According to the plans of the urban planner Fritz Schumacher, radial green trains should carry the green into the city from the outside and contribute to greening and loosening up the development. As the development from the inside out of the outside and density decreased, the green design should increase with increasing proximity to the city. In Sülz, the green belt north of Military Ringstrasse was continued in an allotment garden and a Volkspark.
Instead of the former Esser gravel pit , which stretched south of the Neuenhöfer Allee, garden director Fritz Encke planned a two -part folk park in 1924. A natural landscape park with a large folk meadow should join a regularly designed special garden in the north. An outdoor school was planned in the southeastern area. An allotment garden joined in the southwest. Other green areas should be extended to the residential quarters. The green area between Euskirchener and Hollerather Straße extends to the Sülzgürtel. In the east, a green area establishes the connection to the climbing mountain park.
Shortly before the end of Fritz Encke’s term of office, work on the creation of the Sülz People’s Park began in 1925, as it was first mentioned. Encke’s successor Theodor Nussbaum revised the plans and realized the facility until 1927.
When it was completed, the Volkspark Sülz presented itself as a two -part complex. The landscape -designed part joined the special gardens. The large, lowered folk meadow with its curved, mostly natural paths is divided by the circular groups that are planted in a circuit. In the west and southeast, the facility passed into a forested area and guided into the green belt. In the east, the facility was changed in 1953 by filling up an elongated rubble mountain. The original route is still partly recognizable by the old tree planting. A second special garden was on today’s site of the tennis courts of the KHCT Blau-Weiß.
The special gardens [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
The strictly structured special gardens were on the Neuenhöfer Allee. From a rectangular tree series on the Neunhöfer Allee you get to the park. On both sides of the actual main axis (across the Neuenhöfer Allee) there are two rectangles in two rows (three plots in total). To the left and right of the first piece of lawn lie of high, old trees shaded playgrounds. A high poplar wreath rises on the second lawn. This tree wreath was a typical feature of Encke and a popular design element in the 1920s. The plots on the left and right of it were originally designed as a rose garden. For financial and nursing reasons, this was removed in the 1990s. You can also see the lawns lined with pyramid -like trees. This area is limited by a continuous hedge with niches and resting benches. South of the poplar wreath, the visual axis leads to a semi-circular viewpoint (“Sülzer Balcon”), from which you have a panoramic view of the far-opening park with the interplay of forest and open spaces. In the opposite direction you can see the tower of the Sülzer orphanage church.
The folk wies [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
The former gravel pit was modeled into a lowered, large open space. The large folk meadow rising to the edges experienced a lively emphasis through the forested rubble mountain in the east. Circular groups -planted groups of trees rise, often slightly increased, like small islands from the vastness of the system. You resume the model of the poplar wreath in a small scale. A southern counterpart forms the large ring of conifers in the south.
Der Trümmerberg [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
At the highest point of the so -called Milzberg, one of eleven Cologne rubble hills,
you have a clear view of the north and west from the covered viewing platform (“mushroom”). The hill’s slope is a popular toboggan run in winter.
- Werner Adams, Joachim Bauer: Cologne under French and Prussian rule . In: Werner Adams, Joachim Bauer (ed.): From the botanical garden to the big city green – 200 years of Cologne green. Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7616-1460-8. (Stad’s traces – monuments in Cologne, Volume 30)
- René Zey: Parks in Cologne. A guide through the green areas. Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-7743-0273-1
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