Bürgerpark Oberföhring
The public park Oberföhring is a cultural purposes serving area in the district Oberföhring in Munich . With the support of the city's cultural department , it is available to a number of associations. The park-like area is loosely built with barracks that previously housed the Oberföhring Municipal Hospital .
Cultural and social institutions
Most of the institutions in the Bürgerpark are united in the association association 29 eV ; including a motorcycle club, several traditional costume clubs , a music club, a dance club , an amateur stage , a carnival club , a rifle club and the Oberföhringer local association of the German lifesaving society . The site is also home to an artists' association that also operates a gallery. The Kafe Kult music club has been offering concerts since 1999, taking over from the cultural station of the Munich-Stadt district youth association , which existed there from 1989 to 1995. In a Montessori - Kindergarten are cared for around the 38 children. A puppet theater is one of the original co-founders.
A total of 17 clubs and groups currently use the 6,500 square meters of building space in the 5.7 hectare park.
history
The site of a brickworks founded in 1898 and operated until 1920 was bought from its Jewish owner in 1939/1940 for 3 or 4 Reichsmarks / m² in favor of the Wehrmacht. It then built an air force hospital with 300 beds in 27 barracks. As the war progressed, an air raid shelter and an underground operating theater were added in 1942. When the war ended, it was the only fully operational hospital in Munich due to bomb damage to all other facilities. After the Second World War , it was initially continued as an alternative hospital on American instructions and handed over to the city of Munich as the Oberföhring Municipal Hospital at the end of 1945 . It lasted with 228 beds under the medical direction of Karl Dietrich Hepp and Simon Snopkowski until the Bogenhausen Clinic opened in 1983.
To finance the new hospital building, the site of the hospital was to be sold. The city was hoping for revenues of around 30 to 40 million marks and was in talks with the Schörghuber group of companies . On the other hand, local associations turned, claiming the lack of club rooms and a community center in the district and wanted to move into the barracks. In June 1984 there was a squatting of two buildings by the clubs. In March 1984 the only CSU Lord Mayor Erich Kiesl was voted out and Georg Kronawitter , SPD, moved back into the town hall. At the initiative of city councils from the north-east of Munich, he decided that twelve barracks should initially remain and be available to the district's clubs until a decision had been made to reuse the property.
This interim solution became a long-lasting temporary solution. Both the barracks and the infrastructure are far beyond their intended lifespan. A renovation of the building stock does not make sense, there is a lack of funds for demolition and new construction. In 2014, plans for a cultural center for the north-east of Munich were presented, whether and how it can replace the community park is open. The start of construction is not possible before 2017.
literature
Karin Bernst, Willibald Karl, Helmut Hofstetter, Karlheinz Kümmel, Dieter Vögele: The Bürgerpark Oberföhring. From a hospital to a cultural oasis . NordOstVerlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-9809735-0-6
Web links
supporting documents
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Echt Kult , May 17, 2010
- ↑ International Montessori Center Munich: Montessori Kindergarten
- ↑ NordOstKultur-München: Bürgerpark Oberföhring , accessed on February 14, 2009.
- ↑ 089.com: The future of the Oberföhring public park secured in the medium term ( Memento from July 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Nordostkultur eV: Bürgerpark Oberföhring , last edited in March 2012
- ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: A house from and for citizens , February 24, 2014, p. R9
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 57 ″ N , 11 ° 37 ′ 24 ″ E