Höpkensruh, Protected cultural heritage park in Oberneuland, Germany.
Höpkensruh is a seven-hectare landscape park at Oberneulander Landstraße 69 in Oberneuland, Bremen. It was laid out around 1800 by the jurist Jacob Friedrich Schultz as Bremen's first English landscape garden. The grounds contain a Linnaeus obelisk commemorating naturalists Carl von Linné, Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Albrecht von Haller and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin.
The lawyer Jacob Friedrich Schultz laid out the park around 1800, the first English landscape garden in Bremen. After his death in 1827 the estate changed hands several times. On 19 December 1859 the merchant and shipowner Johann Höpken and his brother Georg bought it and named it Höpkensruh. In 1873 Höpken bequeathed it to the city of Bremen on condition that a restaurant be established there.
The name comes from the merchant and shipowner Johann Höpken, who bought the estate with his brother Georg on 19 December 1859 and called it Höpkensruh. In 1873 he bequeathed it to the city of Bremen on condition that a restaurant be set up here. In the 1930s the local council met on the grounds; on 3 July 1933 the head of the Aumund community announced there the exclusion of all Social Democratic deputies.
The place is best explored on foot, with walkable paths and several seating areas scattered throughout the grounds. A restaurant building on the property offers refreshments for longer visits, allowing guests to spend as much time as they wish.
The Linnaeus Obelisk in the grounds commemorates naturalists Carl von Linné, Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, Albrecht von Haller and Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. The original was destroyed in World War II and replaced using material from an abandoned grave; the present obelisk is somewhat smaller than the first.
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