Stadtgarten Vegesack, Public park in Vegesack, Germany
Stadtgarten Vegesack is a 2-hectare park on the Weser in Bremen-Vegesack, part of the Maritime Mile. Its roughly 1-kilometre riverside promenade runs from the Strandlust to the former Bremer Vulkan shipyard. A rosarium with perennial borders sits by the steps up to the district office, and old copper beeches from the plantings around 1898 survive.
Botanist Albrecht Wilhelm Roth built a summer house on the steep Weser bank in 1787 and planted rare trees and shrubs on the sandy heath. The lower garden was filled with Weser mud and planted by 1898. In 1929 the city bought Senator Carl Wilhelm August Fritze's one-hectare garden as the core of today's public park, and teacher Hanna Borcherding helped found the association that laid it out.
The park's artworks carry maritime themes: an eleven-tonne ship propeller and the tugboat Regina, both from the Bremer Vulkan shipyard. Since 1999 the Festival Maritim has been held here on the first weekend of August, and around 1 May the garden festival "Maison et jardin" takes place.
The park stretches about one kilometre along the Weser, from Strandlust to the former Bremer Vulkan shipyard, with several stairways climbing to Weserstraße and its villas and captains' houses. The riverside promenade is level, but the slope up to the district office is stepped. The Maison et jardin garden festival is held around 1 May.
A trumpet tree below the district office originates from Dr. Roth's original plantings in the 18th century. This rare specimen serves as a living link to the garden's founding era and remains one of its most notable features.
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