Bakery facility
The bakery is a park in the Aussersihl district (District 4) of the city of Zurich . The facility takes its name from Bäckerstrasse, which originally led to Feldstrasse before the road was corrected from Stauffacherstrasse.
location
The bakery is located near Helvetiaplatz and Langstrasse in Zurich District 4. It is framed by Stauffacherstrasse, Feldstrasse and Hohlstrasse and east of the Kernstrasse schoolhouse.
history
In the 5th / 6th In the 19th century there was an Alemannic cemetery in the area of the bakery . The first park was created in 1901 by Evariste Mertens as a bourgeois city park in the middle of what was then the workers' quarter. However, the strictly geometrical green space was hardly used. The complex became overgrown within a few years and was taken over by marginalized people. In 1938 Evariste's sons, the brothers Walter and Oskar Mertens, turned the landscaped garden into a residential garden . On the new facility, which was inaugurated on June 3, 1939, the lawn was allowed to walk on and splash around in the water basin. The park also got a bandstand . Only a few trees have been preserved from the original Bürgerpark. In this new form, the park was accepted and used by the population.
Displacement of the neighborhood population
In the 1970s, the park was again taken over by alcohol-addicted homeless people who settled in the bandstand and near the water basin. In 1996 the bandstand was set on fire by a homeless man who carelessly handled smokers' products. A year later, the burned-out small building collapsed during an improper renovation attempt. At the end of the nineties, after the open drug scenes at Platzspitz and Letten closed , drug addicts increasingly joined the homeless and the local population stayed away from the park. The bakery was threatening to become a successor to the Latvian.
On March 23, 2001, the park was closed, cordoned off with a man-high fence and monitored by a mobile police station. On April 7, 2001, the facility was reopened with a party. The permanent mobile police unit - 75 police officers with special training - remained present until further notice and a café-restaurant with a cultural facility was built in a mobile barracks, which was intended to prevent further slump formation.
District center Aussersihl
In 1999, the EM2N office won the “Mogli” project in an open competition to build a new district center. However, this planned six-storey, polygonal glass tower was considered too ostentatious and failed in the city parliament in 2002 due to opposition from the right-wing liberal side. At the same time, the original budget of 5.5 million for a new building was reduced to 3 million. The architects at EM2N then started a new design. The result is a simple three-story building with a kidney-shaped floor plan, which was inaugurated on October 1, 2004 and damaged by fire on May 29, 2010.
Surname
When the facility was built in 1901, the park was named after Bäckerstrasse, which at the time led to Feldstrasse before the street was corrected for Stauffacherstrasse. The Bäckerstrasse, in turn, takes its name from a bakery that was housed in the corner building at Badener- / Bäckerstrasse from 1823 to 1957. In 1955, the park was given the name Aussersihler Anlage , a holdover from the Federal Rifle Festival of 1872. In 2005, the park was given its original name as a bakery .
Use and situation today
Even today there are still a few marginalized people in the bakery area, but the picture is mainly dominated by young families. At lunchtime, numerous employees from the surrounding offices, shops and agencies come to eat in the Bäckeranlage restaurant, and in summer the whole area is used by the local population.
photos
Web links and sources
- Bakery facility: "An unstable equilibrium" (Zurich, NZZ Online)
- City of Zurich - district center Aussersihl
- Benjamin Muschg: Colorful life in the city clearing . EM2N: district center Aussersihl, Zurich. In: archithese . Vol. 35. Vol .: 35, No. 1 edition. No. 1 , 2005, ISSN 1010-4089 , p. 30-33 ( RSWB database ).
- Homepage of the bakery facility
- Langstrasse: Zurich's mile of sin on the mend - observer
Individual evidence
- ↑ Park and green areas . Website of the City of Zurich, Green City of Zurich. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
- ^ Quartierverein Aussersihl-Hard, Zurich: Street and field names ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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: 47 ° 22 '40.1 " N , 8 ° 31' 25.5" E ; CH1903: 681946 / 248,008