City Park Aachen Photo: City Park Aachen

City Park Aachen is a unique landscape architecture and design Park and is under protection as a historical monument. In 1852, the Park was designed by landscape architect Peter Joseph Lenné and laid the urban gardener by the name Janke for the hospital of the name of Mary. Later, in 1870, the Park was open to visitors for a fee. In 1885, the Park was expanded by the addition of the Botanical garden and arboretum of size 0, 2 hectares with a unique collection of tree species. Thus, in 1908 the total area of Aachen city Park was 1, 5 acres, and now has 2, 3 hectares, including the greenhouse, pavilion with palm trees and greenhouses.

In connection with the construction of a new resort area with located therein a hotel Quellenhof, a covered gallery, the polyclinic and the new Spa building, in 1916 the city Park became a resort Park. Later the Park was built, the roller rink, the Boulevard tennis club under the open sky and other parts of the Park with a total cost of about 100,000 Reich marks, the monetary unit of the time.

In 1605, on the territory of modern monchinski alleys of the Park emerged the Protestant cemetery, which had suspended operations in 1889 and to this day it remains more of a monument with a few tombstones with names important to Aachen historical persons. There was a small Park, with its high walls protect from the mundane and allows you to stay in silence.

City Park Aachen has such rare species of plants of the 20th and even the 19th centuries the planting of the Tulip Magnolia, Lily felt, noble chestnut, Holly maple and others that represent the natural value.

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