Bürgerpark (Bielefeld)

Bielefeld public park

rose Garden

The Bürgerpark in Bielefeld is a city park in the west of the city .

In the years 1919–1921, according to the planning of the Bielefeld horticultural director Paul Meyerkamp, an abandoned clay pit was converted into an inner-city recreational facility as a job creation measure . The plan, sponsored by the mayor at the time , Rudolf Stapenhorst , was controversial in times of economic hardship. Critics demanded that the area on what was then Bürgerweg (today Stapenhorststraße) be released for growing vegetables. From 1933 to 1945 the park was officially called Adolf Hitler Park.

The Bürgerpark received its current form through numerous redesigning measures; the architecturally planned park was transformed into a landscape park- like area after the Second World War . Special features are the rhododendron planting , the rose garden and the cottage garden with numerous shrubs . a. a double hanging beech , a stately silver maple , a Caucasian wingnut , several primeval sequoias and a lying magnolia .

Immediately west of the park is the Rudolf-Oetker-Halle . The park can be reached by local public transport via the tram station of the same name . Probably for this reason, the park is often erroneously referred to as " Oetker Park". Also close to the park is the SchücoArena , Arminia Bielefeld's stadium (approx. 350 m to the north).

Web links

Commons : Bürgerpark (Bielefeld) - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: Bürgerpark Bielefeld in LWL-GeodatenKultur
Parks. City of Bielefeld

Individual evidence

↑ Till Wöhler: Garden Director Paul Meyerkamp. Chamber of Architects North Rhine-Westphalia, August 27, 2004, accessed on January 27, 2013 .
^ Bärbel Sunderbrink: National Socialism in Bielefeld. Section Celebrating under National Socialism - “Führer's Birthday” on April 20, 1933. In: Internet portal “Westphalian History”. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, accessed on August 26, 2011 : "On this day there was a major event in the Bürgerpark where the green area was renamed Adolf-Hitler-Park."
↑ parks. Section Bürgerpark, Rosengarten. In: Website of the city of Bielefeld. City of Bielefeld, accessed on May 8, 2007 : "After the Second World War, the green space developed from an architecturally designed park into a magnificent complex with elements of a landscape park."

52.0275 8.5144444444444Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 39 ″ N , 8 ° 30 ′ 52 ″ E

[1] Till Wöhler: Garden Director Paul Meyerkamp. Chamber of Architects North Rhine-Westphalia, August 27, 2004, accessed on January 27, 2013 .

[2] Bärbel Sunderbrink: National Socialism in Bielefeld. Section Celebrating under National Socialism - “Führer's Birthday” on April 20, 1933. In: Internet portal “Westphalian History”. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, accessed on August 26, 2011 : "On this day there was a major event in the Bürgerpark where the green area was renamed Adolf-Hitler-Park."

[3] parks. Section Bürgerpark, Rosengarten. In: Website of the city of Bielefeld. City of Bielefeld, accessed on May 8, 2007 : "After the Second World War, the green space developed from an architecturally designed park into a magnificent complex with elements of a landscape park."