Old Elbe Park

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Old Elbpark with the Bismarck monument within its borders, Kersten-Miles-Brücke on the right, Helgoländer Allee in the foreground, Millerntordamm on the left
Helgoländer Allee, Alter Elbpark, Kersten-Miles-Brücke and in the background the Deutsche Seewarte on the Stintfang around 1900
Exhibition building of the IGA 1869
Park with Helgoländer Allee and Kersten Miles Bridge 2016

The Alte Elbpark in Hamburg is a listed public park between the Neustadt and St. Pauli districts . It is part of the historic Hamburg ramparts and connects the Planten un Blomen park to the north with the Stintfang , a prominent hill above the St. Pauli Landungsbrücken . The Alte Elbpark is dominated by the Bismarck memorial built in 1906 by the sculptor Hugo Lederer . The name Alter Elbpark has also existed since 1906.

Location and facilities

The almost 4.5  hectare park is located directly on the slope of the Geest , which slopes down towards the Elbe ; the difference in height can be clearly seen in the course of the Helgoländer Allee , which leads south from Millerntorplatz to the landing stages. The park is bounded by the streets Am Elbpark, Zirkusweg, Millerntorplatz, Millerntordamm, Zeughausmarkt and Neumayerstraße . In the south, the Kersten Miles Bridge and Seewartenstrasse form the border to neighboring Stintfang, which is no longer part of the listed park area.

In the north-western part of the park on Zirkusweg there is a playground ; There is a sports field between the Bismarck monument and Neumayerstraße.

Many old trees such as oaks, chestnuts and plane trees have been preserved in the park , but also exotic ones such as an Aleppo pine and Japanese cherry trees . Some of them date from the mid-19th century, the cherry trees were replanted in the 1950s.

history

Since the Thirty Years War, the Albertus (today Stintfang ) and Casparus (Elbpark) bastions formed the western end of the Hamburg ramparts. After the end of the French occupation , the ramparts were softened between 1820 and 1837 and converted into parks in the English style under the direction of the landscape gardener Isaak Altmann . Altmann integrated the old bastions into the park as lookout points. The Helgoländer Allee (built later) originally followed the course of the former moat, but was straightened in the 1970s.

In 1869 the International Horticultural Exhibition took place on the site of the later Elbpark and the Stintfang . The horticultural entrepreneur Friedrich Jürgens planned the necessary redesign of the site . In the following decades the area was increasingly built on and the area was subdivided by the Kersten-Miles Bridge and the Helgoländer Allee , which is still visible today . Both the Landungsbrücken S-Bahn and U-Bahn station and the youth hostel on the Stintfang were built on the former park area.

In the year of the inauguration of the Bismarck monument in 1906, the part north of Seewartenstrasse was officially renamed Alter Elbpark .

From 2011 to 2014 there was a construction site in the park for the renewal of one of Hamburg's large sewage sewers, which meant that a large part of the meadow was not usable for visitors for several years. Starting in 2014, a procedure with public participation was discussed as to how the park could best be connected to the southern end of Planten un Blomen. As a result, a connection via a pedestrian bridge over the Millerntordamm and a resulting redesign of the route network is planned.

Photographs and map

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 54 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 20 ″  E

Map: Hamburg
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Old Elbe Park​
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  • Bismarck Monument (2013) in the Old Elbe Park, with the dancing towers in the background

  • Front view of the Bismarck monument

  • Statue of Simon of Utrecht

  • Central meadow

  • Way in the eastern part

literature

  • Axel Iwohn, Martina Nath-Esser, Claudia Wollkopf: Hamburg Green. The city's gardens and parks . L&H Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-928119-39-7 , p. 273-277 .
  • Heino Grunert: The old Elbpark as part of the Hamburg ramparts , In: Altstadt - City - Denkmalort. Christians Verlag 1996 (workbooks on monument preservation in Hamburg no. 16), pp. 120–122.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Interview with the garden monument keeper Heino Grunert on the history of the park on st.pauli-news.de . (Archive version Feb. 2016, accessed February 17, 2018)
  2. ↑ Old Elbe Park. In: hamburg.de. Retrieved February 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Report on plans for the redesign of the park on st.pauli-news.de . Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  4. ^ Report on the discussion about the redesign of the park on st.pauli-news.de . Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  5. ↑ Report ( Memento from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on the redesign on ndr.de from June 17, 2015. Accessed on March 10, 2016.
  6. ↑ report to remodel on radiohamburg.de of June 18, 2015. Accessed March 10, 2016th

Web links

Commons : Alter Elbpark  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Description of the park on hamburg.de .
  • Interview with the garden monument curator Heino Grunert on the history of the park on st.pauli-news.de .