Archive Park
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The archive park, also known as the college garden or college garden after the " college society" that created the park , is a 2.2 hectare district park in the gardens of Nuremberg behind the fortress . It emerged from a piece of land that the merchant Georg Zacharias Platner owned in the north of the city of Nuremberg and used as a garden. The garden stretched, according to today's street names, from Archivstrasse to Pirckheimerstrasse and from Bucher Strasse to Pilotystrasse.
Development of the garden
The garden property at number 36 was acquired in 1859 by the Colleg-Gesellschaft, in which, since 1781, originally only members of the merchant class came together in good company in order to create hours of joy and relaxation with the least amount of effort . Gardens were rented as summer retreat for the members, most recently the Platnersgarten on Bucher Strasse, which the company even acquired in 1859. In 1907/08 the old house, which had become too small, was replaced by a spacious new building.
On March 1, 1941, the city of Nuremberg bought the property from the college society. A hospital was set up in the college building, the western part of the garden served as a hospital garden and the eastern half as a public green area. In the 1950s, the college society dissolved and the college building fell victim to demolition. The college garden was transformed in its entirety into a public green area.
For the construction of the Friedrich-Ebert-Platz underground station , the north-western part of the park was used as a warehouse and for the ramp to the approach shaft. Several trees had to be felled for this.
The archive park was completely renovated in 2011–2012. The redesign of the green area included 33 tree plantings, the re-establishment of the Noris fountain, the erection of a continuous wall along Archivstrasse with an accompanying path and wooden seating. The play area in the south-west of the park was also redesigned and additional paths laid out. Today a central meadow area with seating forms the center of the park.
The Noris Fountain is located in the northwest of the park and consists of a two-part figure with a cast bronze fountain bowl on a concrete structure. In 1994 the fountain was donated by Kurt Klutentreter and designed by the artist Hanspeter Widrig.
literature
- Ute Burkart: The Rosenau, the Platnersanlage, the Colleggarten and the Cramer-Klett-Park. Four small parks from the 19th century. Origin, development and public structures until 1945 . Master's thesis in the Philosophical Faculty I of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. Nuremberg 1995.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claudia Beyer: 33 trees for college gardens. Nürnberger Stadtanzeiger, March 19, 2011, accessed on August 11, 2017 .
- ^ News from the town hall: Noris fountain rebuilt in the archive park. (No longer available online.) City of Nuremberg, May 18, 2011, archived from the original on August 12, 2017 ; accessed on August 12, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '43 " N , 11 ° 4' 26" E