Bürgerpark (Braunschweig)

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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 17 ″  N , 10 ° 31 ′ 20 ″  E

The portico with portico pond
The Oker flows through large parts of the park
The portico pond in the Bürgerpark

The Bürgerpark in Braunschweig is one of the oldest and largest parks in the city. It is located south of the old town and lies between the western ring area and the Viewegs Garten district. With around 42 hectares , the park is the third largest in the city of Braunschweig. The small-scale, mixed-style urban park is now a cultural monument and was laid out as planned from 1886 to 1925.

It is bordered to the west by Theodor-Heuss-Straße and to the east by Wolfenbütteler Straße. In the south it borders on a railway embankment, behind which the green area with the Richmond Park continues and continues to the South Pacific area with the South Pacific . In a northerly direction, the Bürgerpark flows into the Kiryat-Tivon-Park (the former station park ). Together, the four parks and green spaces form an extensive recreational area along the Oker in southern Braunschweig.

history

The Bürgerpark on a map of the city of Braunschweig, 1899

Originated in the 19th century

Detail of the Krahesche Portikus

From 1805, the Rönckendorffsche Garten, a smaller park, was built in the Okerauen, south of the old town, which was probably created for the merchant Röttger Rönckendorff according to plans by Peter Joseph Krahe . The Rönckendorff garden formed the basis for the later station park and thus the public park.

In the years 1868/69 the park was redesigned by Promenade Inspector Friedrich Kreiß and, since it was directly adjacent to the Braunschweig train station, opened as a "Eisenbahnpark" (later Bahnhofspark). From 1886 Kreiß redesigned this park again and adapted it to current tastes by creating, among other things, artificial ponds and playgrounds. The park section around the portico pond was created between 1886 and 1891. In the autumn of 1891 the city bought a meadow at the railway park in order to be able to expand it. Part of the railway park thus became the Bürgerpark, which was opened that same year. Construction of the southern part began in 1892. In 1896 a so-called “ staffage building” was added, namely a pillar portico designed by PJ Krahe , which came from the August gate , which was converted into the main guard and which was demolished from 1894 to 1895. The portico was deliberately designed as a ruin in the park, but damaged in the Second World War and has remained unchanged to this day, the destroyed remains were placed behind the portico after their discovery in 1989. The portico is still to this day at the small "portico pond". At the one-hectare portico pond surrounded by weeping willows , there was originally also a grotto.

From 1892 to 1896, the 4.5-hectare southern pond was created in the southern part of the Bürgerpark.

20th century

Path along the western flood ditch
Slate “water tower” (pressure tower) and machine hall of the previous river waterworks
Detail of the "water tower"

In 1907 a rococo house was moved to the Bürgerpark, which had to make way elsewhere. This was destroyed in the Second World War; What remains, however, are the pavilion buildings and the Rococo Motor with a flight of stairs that lined the Rococo house.

In the Bürgerpark there is a viewing mountain that was artificially created between 1900 and 1908, the "Kreißberg" (meanwhile a natural monument ); it was mainly made up of household waste and building rubble and is therefore also called "Scherbelberg" by the population. It is around 35 meters above the level of the surrounding area. The original plan was to build a large concert hall with a winter garden and a water cascade in the park, but these structures were not carried out.

After the end of the Second World War , in 1950, in the course of the rebuilding of the heavily destroyed city, the newly built outdoor pool in the Bürgerpark next to the city indoor pool was opened and the replanting in the park was completed. Even before the Second World War, the Bürgerpark was a popular excursion destination for bathers and owned several bathing establishments in and on the Oker. The "Badetwete", which led to one of the bathing establishments (Flussbadeanstalt von Gellertshoff), is still a reminder today. In the western part of the Oker river bath "Bahnbade" (on the site of today's Okercabana) was operated until the end of the 1950s, but given the increasing pollution of the Oker water. In 1952 the lifeguard school of the German Life Rescue Society (DLRG) and the lifeguard school "Georg Hax" were inaugurated.

At the end of the 1960s, the Bürgerpark leisure and education center was built on the site of the former waterworks in the Bürgerpark (officially abbreviated as FBZ Bürgerpark , popularly also known as FreiBiZe ). The FBZ ceased operations in early 2002. A leaning tower that is noticeable in the cityscape marks the point in the park where the parts of the building of the former FBZ are located. The 54-meter-high structure, known as the “ water tower ”, is a tower- clad chimney of the steam engine that drove the water pumps. It was faced with shell limestone so that it would fit better into the townscape, which was still medieval at the time. On old photos you can still see the upper exit part of the chimney, which has been removed in the meantime. In order to keep the pressure constant, the water mains line was led up to the top of the tower, which is why the structure is referred to as a pressure tower in the plan sketches . The waterworks was almost completely destroyed during the Second World War (apart from a few walls and parts of walls and the tower). The remaining remains are under monument protection. Due to the building site directly on the Oker, the tower has tilted slightly for decades; it was renovated in the 1990s for around 800,000 DM.

In the 1970s there were plans to break through the Bürgerpark in its southern area in order to be able to close the main traffic arteries in Braunschweig, which form the so-called Braunschweiger Ring . However, these plans were not implemented.

In 1976 the Bürgerpark was expanded west of the Oker. The new parking areas were created on the former site of the old train station . In the 1990s, the public park west of the Oker was expanded again with smaller areas that the city had bought from allotment gardeners .

21st century

On April 11, 2011, the first phase of the renovation of the Kreißberg natural monument began. The viewing platform of the mountain, originally created as a viewing mountain, was renovated and provided with a railing and benches based on the historical model. This again enables a panoramic view. The Alpinum in the upper area, which has been covered by leaves for decades, is also to be exposed and restored. The city invested 100,000 euros in the renovation.

Since the closure of the leisure and education center, there have been considerations about the future use of the site. It was decided to build a four-star-plus - hotels . If the city ​​administration had not found an investor , a new youth hostel should have been built on the property as an alternative . The building was demolished in March and April 2009. In October 2011, the city council decided to sell the property to a hotel investor. On April 20, 2012, the foundation stone for the Steigenberger Parkhotel Braunschweig was laid. The hotel opened on August 23, 2013. In the summer of 2014, the tower was equipped with the "Türmer" sculpture, which looks towards the city center.

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Maps of the northern and southern parts of the Bürgerpark

A maintenance and development concept was drawn up for the maintenance and redevelopment of the public park according to monument preservation criteria. This provides for a restoration of the state of 1930. The park is to be renovated by 2017.

flora

The trees and shrubs in the Bürgerpark include some rare native and foreign species. These include catalpa , tulip tree , ailanthus , apple arbor , spindle tree , Honeylocust , antlers tree , Japanese Cork Tree , Swedish whitebeam , Thuja occidentalis , Buntblättriger Maple , Red Pavie , Bottlebrush Buckeye , refined copper beech , Fraxinus anomala , hanging ash , Krimlinde , hanging silver linden , elm , white elm , Turkey oak , American red oak , Abies concolor , Canadian hemlock and Haarzypresse . Large lilac and rhododendron bushes can be found in parts . There are many weeping willows near the water .

Sport and leisure activities

Information board for the disc golf facility set up in 2015 in the Bürgerpark.

In and around the Bürgerpark there are some allotment gardens (KV Okerwiese, KV Kennel), the 14 historic tennis courts of the Braunschweiger THC (BTHC), the Jahnplatz district sports facility, the football pitch of the Braunschweig lawn sports club, the clubhouse of the deaf sports club Braunschweig eV 1925, the clubhouse of the Marine-Jugend Braunschweig eV, the multifunctional hall Volkswagen Halle Braunschweig including business and parking spaces, the Bürgerpark outdoor pool , the BürgerBadePark indoor pool (the former “Stadtbad”) and the former Bürgerpark leisure and education center. Since 2005 the beach club "Okercabana" (with an artificial sandy beach and with a beach bar) with a beach volleyball court and jetty can be found in the Bürgerpark during the summer months .

In 2015, the city of Braunschweig, in cooperation with the Frisbee department of MTV Braunschweig, set up a disc golf facility consisting of nine stations for beginners and 15 for advanced players. The city administration classifies the facility as the most beautiful, but also the most demanding of the entire region from a sporting point of view, because of its "scenic charm with forest-like areas, the existing ponds and the Oker [...] flowing through the Bürgerpark." The construction costs were given as 20,000 euros.

Culture and events

Cultural events take place regularly in the Bürgerpark. Especially the new part in the west of the park with its wide lawns offers space for various events, celebrations and festivals. Since 1999 the festival "Culture in Tents" has been held annually in August and September, where a large event tent for 1,000 people and a small event tent for 600 people are set up. Concerts, theater, variety shows, cabaret and stand-up comedy are offered. In 2016, culture in the tent had 42,000 visitors.

Since 2010 there has also been the open-air event "Klassik im Park", at which the Braunschweig State Orchestra plays concerts. In 2012 this event had 12,000 visitors. For some years now, a children's festival with duck races has been held on the Oker for World Children's Day . In June 2013 the first Holifestival in Braunschweig took place in the Bürgerpark . The School's-Out-Party organized at the beginning of the summer vacation extends from Kiryat-Tivon-Park to the Bürgerpark.

To the south-west of the Bürgerpark is the city's five-hectare exhibition grounds , where the Harz + Heide exhibition center took place for decades .

literature

  • Wilhelm Appelt, Theodor Müller: Water arts and waterworks of the city of Braunschweig. In: Braunschweiger workpieces. Volume 33.Braunschweig 1964.
  • Heinz-Joachim Tute: Bürgerpark. In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 50 .
  • Heinz-Joachim Tute, Marcus Köhler: Garden art in Braunschweig. From the princely gardens of the Baroque to the public park of the Wilhelminian era. In: Braunschweiger workpieces. Series A Volume 28 / the entire series Volume 76, Waisenhaus-Druckerei GmbH, Braunschweig 1989, ISBN 3-87884-037-3 , pp. 225ff.

Web links

Commons : Bürgerpark  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excursions and guided tours, science: Open Monument Day - Station 8: Historic bathing establishments. City of Braunschweig, accessed on August 23, 2016 .
  2. ^ W. Appelt, T. Müller: Wasserkünste und Wasserwerke der Stadt Braunschweig. P. 85 ff., Braunschweig 1964.
  3. ↑ Press office of the city of Braunschweig: Stegemann: Redevelopment creates an attractive recreational area near the city ​​center on presse-service.de, April 8, 2011.
  4. ↑ Newsclick report from November 29, 2007: City writes property for hotel construction on newsclick.de
  5. ↑ Braunschweiger Zeitung of August 22, 2013: Hotel director: “Broadcast to Hanover” on braunschweiger-zeitung.de
  6. ^ Rehabilitation of historical green spaces and cemeteries in Braunschweig - projects 2005 to 2011
  7. ↑ Bürgerpark before the renovation
  8. ↑ Investments in the Bürgerpark
  9. ↑ Flyer DiscGolf Bürgerpark. braunschweig.de (PDF), accessed on August 28, 2019
  10. ↑ Culture in the tent at kulturzelt-braunschweig.de, accessed on April 3, 2018
  11. ↑ Klassik im Park ( memento from September 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on klassik-im-park-braunschweig.de