Antonipark

View over the park in west direction

The park from the southeast, in the background the St. Pauli Church

The Antonipark is a small public park in Hamburg . It is located on the banks of the Elbe , at the intersection of Pinnasberg / Antoni- / Bernhard-Nocht- / St.Pauli-Hafenstraße and mostly in the Altona-Altstadt district on the border with St. Pauli .

Emergence

The quarter is structurally highly dense, has a deficit of green and open space recognized by the authorities and, due to its location between the Altona fish market and Reeperbahn, is also populated by large numbers of visitors around the clock. For this reason, residents, social institutions, the parish and the only school in the quarter demanded a public park from 1994/95 instead of the closure of the gaps with multi-storey residential and office buildings in closed construction as intended by the city in the B-Plan Altona-Altstadt 35; Also they wanted to by Rocko Schamoni launched Golden Poodle Club (in the rooms of the historic harbor stairs Cafe receive), who was threatened with demolition.

Lengthy implementation

The idea for the park and the name Antonipark came about in 1994 in the Hafenrandverein für Selbstbestes Leben auf St. Pauli eV, a neighborhood initiative that was founded in the early 1990s in the course of the dispute over the preservation of Hafenstrasse . The neighborhood network made the first sketches for this park and made the project known in the neighborhood and the media. In this context, the art project Park Fiction was developed, which initially financed as an "art in public space project", organized exhibitions, lectures, a collective production of wishes and a planning process as a game in the district. The wishes collected formed the basis for the specific design of the area - and the initiative remained integrated into the planning until the park was realized.

Despite the active public participation , the planning phase dragged on for around a decade. Responsible for this were primarily the ruling SPD district politicians from Hamburg-Mitte, who took the immediate proximity to the symbol-laden port street houses as an opportunity to hinder the implementation of the project. Not so in Altona: Here, the initiative's demands found support early on in local politics, in particular from the then SPD district chairman Olaf Scholz and the GAL parliamentary group leader Olaf Wuttke, who advocated the necessary change of plan within their parties and the Hamburg administration. The overlapping of competencies between a large number of authorities and departments also contributed to the delay of the process: at least at times six authorities (for urban development, finance, school and sport, culture, home affairs and the environment) were involved, as well as the district offices of Altona and Mitte the state and two district parliaments .

The Antonipark was finally opened gradually between September 4, 2003 and August 2005; it is partly on the roof of a newly built school gymnasium and also includes the small green space to the east called Schauermanns Park and the church garden of the St. Pauli Church to the north . The project title Park Fiction has also established itself as the name for the park in the neighborhood and in the trade press and is allegedly even used in official texts. In addition to the spectacular view of the harbor, a special feature of the park is that it consists of different islands, their design ( palm island , flying carpet ) and sometimes self-deprecating naming ( open air solarium , bamboo grove of the humble politician ) the humor of the neighboring residents from St. Pauli.

Trivia

The metal palm trees in the Antonipark serve as the title giver of the collabo production by the Hamburg artist Bonez MC with the title Palms made of plastic . Furthermore, many parts of the music videos from this production and from other publications of the 187 street gang were shot in Antonipark.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.baunetz.de/mektiven/Mommunikations_Antoni-Park_in_Hamburg_eroeffnet_14553.html
2. ↑ album cover. Retrieved April 24, 2017 . 
3. ↑ CrhymeTV: Palms Made of Plastic Music Video; from sec. July 30 , 2016, accessed April 24, 2017 . 

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 46.8 "  N , 9 ° 57 ′ 28.2"  E