Federal Garden Show 1971

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Special postmark of the Deutsche Bundespost for the BUGA 71
Fountain by H. Wiese, at the "Mediterranean Garden"

The 1971 Federal Garden Show (BUGA 71) took place in Cologne from April 29 to October 24, 1971 . Its motto was “Festival in Cologne”.

prehistory

The aim of the original planning for this Federal Garden Show was to rehabilitate the area between the inner and outer green belt of Cologne, the "Grünzug Süd". The site covered an area of ​​around 140  ha , of which 80 ha were to be used for the Federal Horticultural Show. It was on Vorgebirgstrasse in the Zollstock district between Bischofsweg , included the Vorgebirgspark and extended to the outer green belt. In 1962, between the city and the Zentralverband Gartenbau e. V. concluded a contract to hold the Federal Horticultural Show and an ideas competition was announced. However, the subsequently forecast costs and the recession of 1965/66 led to the 1966 planning being abandoned in this form and the 1957 Federal Horticultural Show , the Rheinpark , being used in order to be able to use the facilities that already existed there, supplemented by those on the left bank of the Rhine Riehler Aue .

Garden show

The patronage over the Federal Garden Show took German President Gustav Heinemann . The work was under the direction of the city's gardening director, Kurt Schönbohm .

In total, the BUGA 71 comprised an exhibition area of ​​70 hectares. In keeping with the taste of the times, works of art by Otto Piene (wind sculptures), François Baschet , Alexander Sarda and Anton Berger (kinetic metal objects) were set up, which only come into their own when combined with wind and water.

Rheinpark

Play hill landscape
Water objects, "Mediterranean garden" area

The Rheinpark was left largely unchanged. In addition to the existing stock, the Mediterranean garden, designed by the Israeli artist Walter Polak , and a play hill landscape were added here. The Mediterranean garden had several water features, which were surrounded by many pots filled with southern plants, suggesting a Mediterranean landscape.

Gift from the sister city of Kyoto

Exotic plants were shown in the exhibition halls. Some of the partner cities in Cologne also exhibited in Hall 7 : Liverpool , Turku , Tunis , Kyoto and Johannesburg .

Riehler Aue

Part of the BUGA 71 area
View over the Riehler Aue to the south

The Riehler Aue was a total of 27  hectares . 16 hectares of this were flooded areas and could not be used for horticultural purposes. The remaining 11 hectares lay behind the Rhine dike and were raised by 7 m. Work started here in 1969.

The eye-catcher was a bright orange 13 m high hemisphere made of plastic, which was self-supporting due to the increased air pressure. Under the name “Flora-Vision 71”, a slide show with a large number of slide projectors provided information about the gardening profession and assistance with questions and problems relating to hobby gardening. This audiovisual technology was new at the time.

In addition, special shows were held in a number of model gardens that were set up long before the exhibition. This show, under the motto “Contemporary Garden Shapes”, involved 19 “residential gardens” planned by garden architects, which had been carried out by horticultural and landscaping companies under competitive conditions. This area was divided into “larger house gardens”, “ row house gardens”, “ terrace gardens ” and “ atrium gardens and courtyards”. The facilities in the Riehler Aue were largely dismantled after the exhibition ended. Only the paths and the trees remained.

Tivoli

Following this part of the garden, an 8-hectare amusement park , known as the Cologne Tivoli in Danish style , was created as an amusement park . Electric vehicles and catering facilities should increase the attractiveness of the garden exhibition. The main attraction was a 40 meter high Ferris wheel . After the end of the Federal Garden Show, the amusement park continued to operate. But declining public interest led to bankruptcy in 1975 .

Internal traffic

Train 3 of the Cologne Rheinparkbahn with the Porsche locomotive from 1959, as it was on the road during BUGA 71

The two cable cars and the park railway of the Federal Garden Show 1957 also used the garden show of 1971. The connection between the two exhibition areas, Rheinpark and Riehler Aue, was ensured by ships across the Rhine.

Result

4.4 million visitors saw the Federal Garden Show in 1971 on the 179 opening days.

literature

  • Joachim Bauer: Federal Garden Show Cologne 1971 . In: Deutsche Bundesgartenschau GmbH (Ed.): 50 years of federal horticultural shows. Festschrift on the history of the federal and international garden shows in Germany . Bonn 2001, pp. 66-70.
  • André Dumont and Alexander Hess: The Rheinpark and its history - From the fort to the Volkspark . Werner Adams and Joachim Bauer (eds.): From the botanical garden to urban greenery - 200 years of Cologne's green spaces = city tracks - monuments in Cologne 30. Bachem, Cologne. ISBN 978-3-7616-1460-0
  • NN: Federal Garden Show Cologne 1971 - Cologne. A preliminary report . In: Das Gartenamt 1971, pp. 20-25.
  • NN: Federal Garden Show 1971 . In: Das Gartenamt 1971, pp. 161–165.
  • City of Cologne (Ed.): Federal Garden Show 1971. Final report . Cologne 1971.
  • U. Timm: Federal Garden Show - Show without limits . In: Das Gartenamt 1971, pp. 471–476.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ For more information, see here .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bauer, p. 70.
  2. ^ Bauer, p. 66.
  3. ^ Bauer, p. 66f.
  4. ^ Bauer, p. 70.
  5. ↑ Dumont / Hess.
  6. ↑ a b Bauer, p. 69.
  7. ^ Bauer, p. 69.
  8. ^ BUGA Cologne 1971. In: bundesgartenschau.de. German Federal Garden Show Society, accessed on February 2, 2020 (Buga Cologne 1971.).
  9. ↑ Dumont / Hess.
  10. ↑ a b Bauer, p. 69f.
  11. ↑ Julian Preuten: search for clues in Cologne. When there was an amusement park in the Riehler Aue . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from September 17, 2015.