"The history of the park is inextricably linked to the urban development of the communities in the Ruhr area towards the end of the 19th century, which made the public park a common phenomenon - and the most important design task of German garden architects." So in 1898 also decided the district founded two years earlier Gelsenkirchen received a loan of 400,000 marks to enable its municipalities to set up people's parks or gardens, and any community that wished to create a Volksgarten could benefit from this fund, the first municipality to use this Volksgarten Fund was Ückendorf, a former farming village, which grew within 25 years to 1875 to a community with 5,000 inhabitants.
In 1898, at the behest of the bailiff of Wedelstaedt land was bought for the community park. It was a five-acre, south-to-north rising plot bounded on two sides by railroad lines. Under the terms of the design competition launched in 1898/99, the future facility was to have the "character of a grove with shady paths, isolated glades, and beautiful views." Built in 1899/1900, the facility unified the principles of the two winning designs by Stadtgärtner Adolf Jensen from Oberhausen and the garden architect Reinhold Hoemann from Dusseldorf.
The main path system and carpet at the main intersection were laid out as Jensen suggested. The round, elevated plateau, overshadowed by plane trees - originally planned as a location for a restaurant, but never built - and the peninsula with shelter, were designed by Hoemann. In 1900, a gardener's house in the style of a Swiss half-timbered house was built inside the park. "
Source: Wolfgang Gaida, Helmut Grothe, 1997: From the Kaisergarten to the Revierpark, Essen