Niddapark

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Volkspark Niddatal, view from the Hausener terrace.

The Volkspark Niddatal ( Niddapark for short ) is the largest and most visited green space in Frankfurt am Main with 168 hectares and, after the city ​​forest, Frankfurt's second largest green area. It is named after the Nidda, which flows through it in the north. The character of the Niddapark is an extensive, natural meadow landscape. In memory of the Federal Horticultural Show in 1989, it is also known in Frankfurt as the BUGA site .

Location and transport links

Site plan and park regulations 2011
Historical boundary stone from 1770 (Dreimarkstein) of the Praunheim , Hausen and Ginnheim districts with the coat of arms of the Hessen-Kasselschen secondary school in the county of Hanau

The Nidda flows around Frankfurt city center from the northeast to the north and west and flows into the Main near the Höchst district . This means that the Niddapark is located in the northwest of the Frankfurt city area. It is located about five kilometers from the center in the districts of Praunheim, Ginnheim, Bockenheim and Hausen. In the north it borders on the Römerstadt settlement in Heddernheim . It is part of the green corridors and green belt landscape protection area in Frankfurt am Main.

Several schools and other public institutions are directly adjacent to the park: the Hermann Luppe School on the northwest corner of the park, the Geschwister Scholl School on the northeast corner, the New Bockenheim Cemetery and the Markus Hospital in the east, the Institute for Sports Science in the southeast, the Elisabeth Hospital and the Plant Protection Office in the south. In the southernmost part, the sports facilities of the Institute for Sports Science at the Goethe University are adjacent. The Main-Weser Railway runs through the former Niddaauen . The green areas to the east of it are connected to the Niddapark by underpasses, those to the west of the Nidda by three bridges.

In public transport , the park can be reached from the west by the underground line U6 (stop Hausen ), from the northwest by bus lines 72/73 (stop Praunheimer Brücke ), from the north by bus line 60 (stop Am Alten Schloß ) , from the east by the underground lines U1 and U9 ( stop Niddapark ) and from the south by the underground line U6 (stop Große Nelkenstraße ).

There are parking spaces for motorized private transport on the Ginnheimer Rand and at the Praunheimer Brücke.

A section of the green belt cycle path runs north-south through Niddapark. Part of the green belt circular hiking trail leads along the northern edge of the park area. The Niddapark is also crossed by the E1 European long-distance hiking trail and the Frankfurt Elisabethpfad . The paths are signposted.

prehistory

The first ideas to create a park in the Nidda floodplains in the north-west of Frankfurt can be traced back to 1914. In 1927 the Nidda was straightened and sealed to protect it against flooding. In the following decades the Nidda floodplains were mostly arable and fallow land . In the time of National Socialism , the main area of ​​the Reichsarboretum was planned here. After the Second World War , almost 70 percent of today's park area was privately owned.

In the 1960s, the city of Frankfurt had successfully applied to host the German Federal Garden Show in 1969 and met with the construction of artists' houses and the heaping up of an elongated dam in the southwest of today's parks, a sawmill covert and other small industrial enterprises, the first structural measures. The city canceled in 1965 for financial reasons.

Wisent enclosure at the Ginnheimer grove. Around 1980 the question was: Niddazoo or Niddapark?

In the 1970s, the Frankfurt Zoo , located in the city center, made land demands. He built a pony farm, a bison and a red deer enclosure west of the Ginnheim forest, with which he ceremoniously opened the Niddazoo in 1975 . For the zoo, this was a first step on the way to a 100 hectare branch. The zoo had a worked out plan and the go-ahead from the city council. Proponents of the old park idea saw it as a threat and again brought the desire for a federal horticultural show into play. At the end of the 1970s, the city finally applied for a compromise under the motto Nature in the City to host the Federal Garden Show in 1989 . A park was to be created with an adjoining, first construction phase of the Niddazoo.

  • Orchard meadow

  • View from Hausen towards the city center

  • Path to the Hausen terrace and exit Hausen

  • Niddapark - wood path

  • Niddapark

The 1st prize of the ideas competition for planning the Niddapark, theme nature in the city . 1982

Emergence

In 1980 the city of Frankfurt and the Central Horticultural Association founded the Federal Horticultural Show Frankfurt am Main 1989 GmbH, which was commissioned to realize the Niddapark and the Federal Horticultural Show. It was about the park, while the garden show for the city, as Lord Mayor Walter Wallmann called it in 1982, was just a welcome “means to an end”. In 1981, the city announced a nationwide ideas competition for landscape architecture offices in which the zoo practically no longer played a role. The Berlin landscape architect Norfried Pohl won first prize. The basic idea behind his concept was to give nature as much space as possible in the spacious center of the park and to provide the edges with various leisure facilities. Soon afterwards, in a joint venture with his Sulzbach colleague Werner Kappes from the GmbH, Pohl received the necessary orders for the planning and construction of the park and garden show. The construction of the park began in 1984, the establishment of the garden show in 1986. At the opening on April 28, 1989, both were completed.

Extensive meadows in Niddapark. In the background the Ginnheimer Randzone and the Europaturm

description

In the middle of the park, elongated meadows stretch from north to south through the Niddatal. Cold air flows from the Taunus crawl further towards the city, where a fresh air supply is essential on critical days. For this reason, the federal motorway 66, which crosses the valley in the south, is built on concrete pillars over a length of 600 m. The extensive valley areas form the core zone, the heart of the park, and give it its natural character. To the east and west of the core zone, the park has two tree-lined edge zones with the entrances. The eastern edge zone on the Ginnheimer side includes the old, approximately nine-hectare Ginnheimer grove, an avenue of lime trees, public playgrounds, a fitness course as well as sports and allotment gardens. The young Praunheim forest, in which a drinking water extraction system (Praunheim III waterworks) is located, belongs to the western edge zone on the Hausen-Praunheimer side. It corresponds to the old Ginnheim forest opposite. The Hausener terrace and a small hill with a view of the central valley area are located near the Hausener entrance.

Lookout point in Niddapark during BUGA 1989
  • Architecturally designed squares In the two park edge areas, twelve squares with their distinctive architecture contribute to the uniqueness and uniformity of the Niddapark. With their monolithic steles, they are, so to speak, exclamation points in the park, which help visitors to orientate themselves. According to landscape architect Pohl, the “almost archaic appearance” of these stone eyewitnesses shows that the flora and fauna in the park are constantly changing and changing. The extremely geometrically designed architectures of the squares are also referred to as large artistic sculptures.
Lindenallee 2015. It has three rows in the northern part
  • Linden avenue with bastions The 900 m long avenue, with around 300 imperial linden trees, connects and divides the adjoining playgrounds and sports and allotment gardens. It has three bastions at its ends and in the middle, from which, just like from the bastions of the Roman city, one looks over the valley areas of the Niddaaue. Otherwise they are designed like the other places.
  • Play, sports and allotment garden facilities In the peripheral areas there are public playgrounds accompanied by groups of trees, parking spaces, a fitness trail and the privately used allotment garden and sports facilities of some clubs, all of which are 25 hectares in size.
  • Paths The approximately 20 km long network of paths is mainly located in the two peripheral zones. The core zone is only crossed in a few places. The paths are wide enough for pedestrians, joggers and cyclists to use them at the same time.

development

Not the Niddapark as such, but the Federal Horticultural Show has been controversial since the early 1980s. There were long-term political clashes between supporters and opponents (opponents mainly SPD and Green Party), which also influenced the elections to the city councils. After the garden show, its components were dismantled as planned. The original concept of the landscape architects was partially deviated from in the further design of the park. So was z. B. a centrally located stream in a film and clay bed, which was supplied with water by pumps and was intended to revitalize the species-rich, meadow-typical fauna and flora and was also motivated by cultural history (it followed the course of old woog ditches ), with the reason Backfilled, it is artificial with this substructure and does not fit into a landscape protection area. In addition, a dog meadow was offered in the middle of the park on an extensive meadow with the possibility of dog encroachment without being forced to leash. Additional paths and an orchard meadow were created.

After two decades, 1.5 million euros were invested in the renovation (paths, park benches, regular clearing of large blackberry bushes, etc.). A new water playground was also built near Ginnheim in 2013 for 475,000 euros. The water playground on the Hausener terrace was no longer technically up-to-date and was therefore shut down in 2009, demolished and unsealed in 2013. A new playground with gymnastics and swing equipment was built here. For the 25th anniversary in 2014, the plantings of the 1980s had become stately woody plants and the maintenance status was significantly improved. Today the park is considered a green oasis for pedestrians, cyclists, joggers, sun worshipers, dog owners and children playing.

Graffiti gallery

In July 2016, graffiti artists started workshops with children and young people to paint the concrete pillars of the A 66 motorway underpass between Hausen and Bockenheim. The graffiti gallery opened in 2017. This project was carried out in cooperation with the Naxosatelier of the municipal child, youth and family aid. By the beginning of 2019, almost all columns had been painted with over 61 pictures.

Graffiti gallery in Niddapark

See also

literature

  • An experience to blossom. Federal Garden Show Frankfurt 1989. In it: Chapter The Volkspark Niddatal - Frankfurt's largest park. Ed .: Federal Garden Show Frankfurt 1989 GmbH
  • Fritz Krämer, Jochen Gauert: Volkspark Niddatal and Federal Garden Show 1989 Frankfurt am Main. In: Garten + Landschaft 4, 1989, Callwey Verlag, Munich
  • Werner Kappes, Norfried Pohl: BUGA 1989: Separation of park and exhibition . In: Garten + Landschaft 4, 1989, Callwey Verlag, Munich
  • Werner Kappes, Norfried Pohl: Frankfurt's new Volkspark Niddatal. In: Garten + Landschaft 4, 1989, Callwey Verlag, Munich
  • Sonja Thelen: Green Frankfurt. A guide to more than 70 parks and facilities in the city . B3 Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-938783-19-1

Web links

Commons : Volkspark Niddatal  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ^ Deutsche Bundesgartenschau GmbH, Bundesgartenschau 1989. Website, June 6, 2018.
  2. ^ The villages of Praunheim and Ginnheim belonged to the Hanau district of Bornheimerberg until the 18th century ; the village of Hausen had been on Frankfurt territory since the late 15th century. The Ginnheim side of the boundary stone is shown. Against Hausen, he shows the Frankfurt eagle . On the third page towards the southeast it shows two coats of arms one above the other, namely once again Hanau and Solms-Rödelheim
  3. ↑ a b c City of Frankfurt am Main: The Green Belt Leisure Card . 7th edition, 2011
  4. ^ Website of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund
  5. ↑ Frankfurter Elisabethpfad on ich-geh-wandern.de, with map (accessed on May 19, 2015)
  6. ^ Fritz Krämer, Jochen Gauert, Udo Neumeyer: Volkspark Niddatal, Federal Garden Show Frankfurt am Main 1989. Documentation of the project . In: Bundesgartenschau Frankfurt am Main 1989 GmbH (Ed.): Single issue . Abt-Druck GmbH, Weinheim June 1989, p. 1-79, p. 25 .
  7. ↑ Bundesgartenschau Frankfurt 1989, pp. 35–42
  8. ↑ Astrid Kumpfe: Die Frankfurter Künstlerkolonie: In Frankfurt / Main Living 1967 , article from September 29, 2012 on the website of LISA - The Science Portal of the Gerda Henkel Foundation , also Astrid Kumpfe: Living in Frankfurt / Main 1967: Frankfurter Künstlerkolonie e. V. (1959), Henrich Editions, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-921606-96-4
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  10. ^ Reinhard Grebe: Landscape planning in Frankfurt . In: German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Management (Hrsg.): Garden + Landscape . tape 4/89 . Georg DW Callwey, Munich April 1989, p. 21-24, p. 21 .
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  12. ↑ Planning office Grebe, project group Federal Garden Show 1989 u. a .: Nature in the city, goals and concepts of the Federal Garden Show 1989 in Frankfurt am Main . In: City of Frankfurt am Main, Der Magistrat (Ed.): Single issue . Self-published, printed by Carl Wurm, Frankfurt am Main, p. 3-34 .
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  14. ^ Walter Wallmann: Foreword . In: Bundesgartenschau Frankfurt 1989 GmbH (Ed.): Single issue . INFO Verlag, Germany October 1982, p. 1–17, p. 1 .
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  16. ^ Fritz Krämer, Jochen Gauert, Udo Neumeyer: Volkspark Niddatal, Federal Garden Show Frankfurt am Main 1989. Documentation of the project . In: Bundesgartenschau Frankfurt am Main 1989 GmbH (Ed.): Single issue . Abt-Druck GmbH, Weinheim June 1989, p. 1-79, p. 26 .
  17. ^ Bundesgartenschau Frankfurt 1989 GmbH (ed.): Volkspark Niddatal, Bundesgartenschau 1989, documentation of the project. Abt, Weinheim 1989, p. 6
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  19. ↑ The garden department, editors: communications, the people's park Niddatal . In: Hennebo (Ed.): The garden office . 4 / April 1989. Patzer Verlag, Hanover, Berlin April 1989, pp. 192 .
  20. ↑ Werner Kappes, Norfried Pohl: Frankfurt's new people's park Niddatal. In: Garten + Landschaft 4, 1989, Callwey Verlag, Munich, p. 44
  21. ↑ Werner Kappes, Norfried Pohl: Frankfurt's new people's park Niddatal. In: Garten + Landschaft 4, 1989, Callwey Verlag, Munich, p. 44
  22. ↑ Monolithic steles are free-standing, often rectangular columns made of one block of stone
  23. ↑ Werner Kappes, Norfried Pohl: Frankfurt's new people's park Niddatal. In: Garten + Landschaft 4, 1989, Callwey Verlag, Munich, p. 45
  24. ^ City of Frankfurt am Main, Environment Agency (ed.), The Green Belt Leisure Map , 7th edition, 2011
  25. ↑ Werner Kappes, Norfried Pohl: Frankfurt's new people's park Niddatal. In: Garten + Landschaft 4, 1989, Callwey Verlag, Munich, p. 44
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  28. ^ Office for Green Spaces of the City of Frankfurt am Main.
  29. ↑ Friederike Tinnappel: An oasis for humans and animals in the middle of Frankfurt, in: Frankfurter Rundschau , November 5, 1994, p. 17
  30. ↑ frankfurt.de on June 5, 2018
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  33. ↑ New water playground in Niddapark . In: FAZ (Ed.): From May 18, 2013, page 44 .
  34. ↑ City of Frankfurt am Main: Adieu Tristesse: Gray becomes green. October 20, 2017. Retrieved April 12, 2019 .
  35. ↑ can art: Graffiti in Frankfurt - gallery in Niddapark (61 pictures). In: dosenkunst.de. January 7, 2019, accessed on April 12, 2019 (German).

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 32 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  E