Rothschild Park, Public park in central Frankfurt, Germany.
Rothschild Park is a public green space in Frankfurt's Westend, northwest of the Alte Oper between Reuterweg and Oberlindau. It retains old trees and a neo-Gothic ornamental tower from the 19th-century English landscape garden. The southern part, added by 2010, includes a playground and a memorial marking the footprint of the destroyed Rothschild Palais.
Amschel Mayer Rothschild bought a country house on the Bockenheimer Landstraße in 1810 (some sources say 1816). From 1830 Friedrich Rumpf rebuilt it as a palais, and from 1832 the grounds became an English landscape garden with a neo-Gothic ornamental tower. Wilhelm Carl von Rothschild extended it into a country estate in 1869/70. The palais was destroyed in a 1943 air raid, and the city has owned the park since 1950.
The Ring of Statues by Georg Kolbe consists of seven over-life-size bronze nudes, each flanked by two dark marble stelae. The figures are named Junges Weib, Hüterin, Auserwählte, Amazone, Herabschreitender, Stehender Jüngling and Sinnender. The city bought the group in 1941 for the Wöhlerpark, but it was only installed in 1951.
The park lies between Reuterweg and Oberlindau, northwest of the Alte Oper, with entrances from Bockenheimer Landstraße and from the east side, the latter added in 2010. A children's playground stands in the grounds. The Instituto Cervantes occupies the former Amerika-Haus at the northeast corner.
The neo-Gothic ornamental tower in the park is the only structure from the Rothschild era that survived the war; the greenhouse, orangery and pond were all lost. A monument in the southern section traces part of the destroyed palace's ground plan, with a sandstone stele from 1878 bearing Amschel Mayer Rothschild's coat of arms.
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