Municipal Park Glückstadt

Glückstadt's city park was built on part of the former Danish fortifications. After the city had to surrender to the anti-Napoleonic coalition army in the winter of 1813/14 and the victors forced the fortress to be demolished, the then mayor, Johann Ernst Seidel, turned to the Danish King Frederick VI. He asked that the area in front of the former Kremper Gate be given to the city in order to create a green area for the benefit of Glückstadt's citizens. The redesign began in 1818. Remains of the fortifications that can still be seen today are the outer moat with its zigzag shape, the two ponds as remnants of the main moat and the two hills Wilhelminenhöhe and Friedrichshöhe. The Kronprinz and Kronprinz bastions once stood here.

Glückstadt not only has an important city monument with its almost completely preserved old town from the 17th century, but also a park that is unparalleled in Schleswig-Holstein. This city park - to be correctly referred to as the city park - was created on part of the area that had previously been occupied by the city fortifications.

This fortress system of bastions, ramparts and ditches has surrounded the city of Glückstadt since it was founded and was intended to protect it from attacks by enemy troops. However, after the victorious siege of the city by the Swedes, Prussians and English allied against Napoleon I in 1813 1814, it was eliminated. Under the leadership of the then mayor Johann Ernst Seidel, the redesign of these areas into a public park began in 1818. The park was laid out for around 100 years until the 20s of the 20th century and essentially took place in three stages:

1818 to around 1850 the central area around Itzehoer Straße and the investment ponds,
circa 1850 to 1900 the north-western area,
circa 1900 to 1930 the south-eastern area.

The urban facilities are almost unique in Schleswig-Holstein in terms of their history and degree of preservation. Remnants of similar parks can only be found in Lübeck and Rendsburg. The historical value of this park had not received the appropriate appreciation for decades. In 1993, however, it was entered in the list of monuments.

Source: glueckstadt.de/Verwaltung-Ppolitik/Verwaltung/Umwelt-Naturschutz/Die-St%C3%A4dtischen-Anlagen-in-Gl%C3%BCckstadt-Bcen-erbeten-.php?object=tx , 2279.1 & ModID = 7 & FID = 2279.5063.1 & NavID = 2279.58 & La = 1

A nice little park should be included in a Glückstadt hike.