Poppy Park
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| Basic data | |
| place | Gutersloh |
| District | Nordhorn |
| Created | 1904 |
| Newly designed | 1949, 1973 |
| Surrounding streets | Goethestrasse, Yorckstrasse, Arndtstrasse |
| Buildings | Outdoor stage |
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| User groups | Pedestrians , cyclists , leisure , sport , events |
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| Parking area | 38,505 m² |
The poppy Park is an approximately 3.9 hectare large green area in the district of Nordhorn the East Westphalian town of Gütersloh .
history
The current area of the park area was bought in 1904 by the Gütersloh publisher Johannes Mohn , who gave it its name, with the intention of preserving a piece of typical local heather and forest landscape and making the area available to the population as a park. After repeated problems with the behavior of some park visitors, Mohn had the area fenced in and thus initially made inaccessible.
In the 1930s, Johannes Mohn's son Heinrich granted his children access to the site for the sake of the Hitler Youth and the Association of German Girls to hold leisure time. In 1935, the hundredth anniversary of Bertelsmann Verlag was celebrated on the site. On April 18, 1937, Friederike Mohn sold the facility to the city of Gütersloh for 73,000 Reichsmarks . In the following year, the Mohns Park was opened to the public.
The park took on its present form after the end of the Second World War. From around 50,000 cubic meters of rubble from the city, which was badly affected by the war, especially from the area around the Blessenstätte, a mountain was built up by 1949, on which an open-air theater was built. Forces from the Royal Air Force stationed in Gütersloh also helped with the construction work. The 1,100-seat stage was ceremoniously opened with a concert on August 27, 1949. Another reopening took place on August 19, 1973 after ten months of conversion into a leisure facility. In 2014, the open-air stage was remodeled and fastened for 300,000 euros, and the concrete foundations and wooden seats on the benches were completely renewed. A trench infiltration was created to the side of the stage .
Today's equipment
Mohns Park today has a mini golf and pit-pat facility built in the 1970s , a Kneipp basin , a playground with a children's cable car and a water and mud playground on its almost four hectare area . A previously existing tennis facility has now been converted into a roller hockey facility, which can be flooded in winter and used for ice skating . In addition to some outdoor fitness equipment, there has been a 144 m² calisthenics facility since July 2018 next to the roller hockey facility, which makes it possible for the first time to exercise with your own body weight in Gütersloh. This extension was requested by the CALI16 initiative in cooperation with some clubs and local athletes in the council and implemented with financial support from the city of Gütersloh, the Gütersloh community foundation, the BfGT and Bertelsmann. The open-air stage is still used regularly for cultural events. a. it is the setting for the Gütersloher Sommer event series .
Due to its unchanged forest-like character, the Mohns Park, along with the Gütersloher Stadtpark , the Riegerpark and the park of the LWL Clinic, is still a valuable urban green area today.
Web links
- Mohns Park on the website of the city of Gütersloh
- Mini golf and pit-pat facilities in Mohns Park
Individual evidence
- ^ City buys Mohns Park from the family , Die Glocke, April 17, 2012
- ↑ Mohns Park is getting a new outdoor fitness facility. City of Gütersloh, accessed on July 22, 2018 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 6.2 " N , 8 ° 22 ′ 50.2" E