The name of this approximately 20-acre park in Blankenese refers to the Altona merchant Georg Friedrich Baur (1768-1865), who bought and summarized eleven plots between 1802 and 1817 here and by the French architect and landscape gardener Joseph Ramée to a romantic landscape park in the English style remodel. Ramée built temples, forest huts, a Chinese pagoda tower, an artificial tower ruin and an orangery. The park also included a cannon park from which incoming ships were greeted with gunfire. From 1829 to 1836 Bauer had a country house built in the Bark, which has been preserved and known under the name Katharinenhof. In 1839, a stable building was completed, which is still standing today (Musenstall). The park remained until 1922 in the possession of the Baur family, were then parceled out and partially built. In 1939, the rest passed into the possession of the city of Hamburg. The former Kanonenberg is today the site of the upper fire of the directional blaze line Blankenese.
"Like a string of pearls, they line up, the numerous parks on the Geesthang on the north bank of the Elbe. Baurs Park is one of them. Its hairpin bends on the slope repeatedly provide picturesque views of the landscape: on the Elbe and on clear days even up to the Harburg mountains. Between 1802 and 1817, the Altona merchant and ship owner, Conference Council Georg Friedrich Baur gradually acquired eleven plots on the northern Elbhang in Blankenese. Right at the beginning he settled there on the Kanonenberg, from where he could watch his own incoming ships and greet them with gunfire. The garden artist was the French architect and landscape gardener Joseph Ramée, who designed the park in the English style. Noteworthy were numerous small architectures, often in the form of chinoiserie, such as a Chinese pagoda, a Japanese umbrella, a monopterus, an artificial castle ruins and much more. Some of these buildings are documented on paintings, but none of them are preserved. Today there is a new lighthouse on Kanonenberg.
From 1829 to 1836 Baur had built on his estate a country house in the late Classicist style, in which four years after completion even the Danish royal couple was received. The two-storey plaster construction with sandstone base on a rectangular ground plan stands together with portal and farm building since 1940 under monument protection. The present "Katharinenhof" at Mühlenberger Weg 33 was last used for administrative purposes and has since been sold to a private investor.
From 1829 to 1836 Baur had built on his estate a country house in the late Classicist style, in which four years after completion even the Danish royal couple was received. The two-storey plaster construction with sandstone base on a rectangular ground plan stands together with portal and farm building since 1940 under monument protection. The present "Katharinenhof" at Mühlenberger Weg 33 was last used for administrative purposes and has since been sold to a private investor.
The park is a significant garden monument. The present care and development concept is the basis for a restoration of lost qualities, also taking into account the ecological concerns. Source & more information: hamburg.de/parkanlagen/3050470/baurs-park
Baurs Park is a public park in the Hamburg district of Blankenese in the district of Altona. The Altona merchant Georg Friedrich Baur, who had houses built in the classical style by Christian Frederik Hansen on the Palmaille in 1804, acquired eleven plots of land (15 hectares) on the Elbe slope in Blankenese between 1802 and 1817, which included four larger estates with country houses. In 1802, Baur acquired the eastern part of the park from Count Friedrich Bernhard August von der Osten-Sacken with the residential building built in 1785 by the Altona textile merchant Anton Friedrich Stuhlmann, and in 1815 the western part from the banker Salomon Heine. The 15-hectare site bordered Mühlenberger Weg to the east, today's Baurs Weg to the west, and Strandweg and the banks of the Elbe to the south. Peter Godeffroy's country house was located on the neighboring property on the other side of Mühlenberger Weg. Georg Friedrich Baur, probably influenced by the Kiel garden theorist Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld, had the property designed into a romantic English-style landscape park by the architect and landscape gardener Joseph Ramée from 1805 to 1810 until his departure from Hamburg: with lines of sight and park architecture such as temples, forest huts, a Chinese pagoda tower, a monopteros above a grotto and a cannon hill with a panoramic view from which incoming ships could be greeted with cannon salutes. From 1829 to 1836, Baur had a manor house built in the park by Ole Jörgen Schmidt (1793–1848) and Johann Matthias Hansen, where he received the sovereign King Christian VIII (Denmark and Norway) and the Queen when the couple were crowned on June 28, 1840 visited his provinces. The design of the park is recorded in paintings by the romantic landscape painter Ludwig Philipp Strack from Eutin.
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