Bastion Leibfried

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The Leibfried Bastion is an artificial viewing hill that was built according to the designs of the landscape architect Hans Luz and his office in the Leibfried Garden in Stuttgart.

It is one of the art stations that were installed for the International Horticultural Exhibition 1993 (IGA '93) in the park landscape of the Green U in Stuttgart and were retained after the exhibition.

See also: navigation bar art stations in Stuttgart .

location

Plan of the Leibfried Garden.

Note: Numbers in brackets, e.g. B. (12), refer to the corresponding numbers in the plan of the Leibfried Garden.

The Leibfried Bastion (17) is located in the northwestern part of the Leibfried Gardens , at an acute angle between Heilbronner Strasse (1) and Pragstrasse (2), both of which are among the busiest streets in Stuttgart. The north-south running Lodzweg (7) and Samaraweg (9), which connect the Brünner Steg (11) with the Samarastegen (8), and in the extension of the Lodzer Steg (6) the west-east meet in the hill extending Kunststation Villa Moser , the wells (19) and arbor (20) of the bastion are immediately adjacent.

The Leibfriedsche Garten functions within the Green U , a closed green area eight kilometers in length, as a link between Rosenstein Park and Wartberg and the adjacent Killesberg Park . The garden is located in the Stuttgart-Nord district of Stuttgart on the Pragsattel , Stuttgart's number one transport hub.

Access

The Leibfried Bastion can be reached in two ways (both ways are also suitable for the disabled):

  1. From the Pragsattel tram stop, walk towards the city on the footpath between Hildebrandstrasse and Pragstrasse to the Samarastegen (8) and turn right into the Samaraweg (9), which leads directly to the bastion.
  2. From the Löwentorbrücke tram stop, follow the ramp up to the Bombaystegen (21). The right branch of the footbridges leads to Lodzweg (7) and on this directly to the bastion.

description

When planning the International Horticultural Exhibition in 1993 , Hans Luz attached great importance to viewing points and visual relationships:

“When walking up there are many points with different perspectives and perspectives: in the vicinity - on and into the new gardens and in the distance - on the backdrop of the urban and cultural landscape. In order to get a further overview and a reference to our urban landscape a few times, however, it required an elevation twice: halfway in the Leibfriedschen Garten with the expansion of the water tank of the former villa into a conical observation mountain and at the top in Killesbergpark with an observation tower . "

At the point where the Leibfried bastion rises, the water container for the water features was previously located in the garden of the nearby Villa Moser . From the viewing platform, “the visitor can see both the cityscape and the everyday reality of the Pragsattel, one of the most important traffic structures in the entire Stuttgart region”.

The Leibfried Bastion is surrounded by an outer ring road, into which three other roads flow, one in the north and two in the south. The frustoconical viewing hill, which resembles a huge molehill, is crowned by a bastion, a ring-shaped natural stone wall that encloses a viewing platform. The hill, together with the bastion, is approx. 11 m high and has a diameter of approx. 60 m; the bastion measures approx. 12 m in diameter.

  • View from the south (Heilbronner Strasse).

  • View from the east (arbor and fountain of the Villa Moser art station ).

  • View from the south.

  • View from the north.

  • Bastion.

The bastion can be reached from an entrance in the west via five eccentric ring paths (including the outer ring path), which alternate in the west and east. The route is reminiscent of the Killesberg tower , where two counter-rotating spiral stairs lead to the top platform. The points of contact of the ring paths are in one axis with the fountain of the art station Villa Moser further to the east . The transitions between the ring paths are flanked by two Eibenbos chains each. See also: Cover picture with a schematic floor plan.

At the transition between the two uppermost ring paths in the west you come to a staircase that leads up to the bastion. In addition to access via the ring paths, there are two stairs that lead directly from the north and south-west access path up the hill to the uppermost ring path. These curious false stairs are supposed to serve as water channels and consist of roughly hewn steps with sloping treads. Hans Luz reports on their creation:

“For the concave shape of a viewing mountain in the Leibfriedschen Garten, we had developed a staircase with great effort and with infinite patience on the part of the worker in which all steps correspond to the regular dimension 2 x height + step = 64, but where each step has a different step and height dimension started with very flat to very steep. ”The stairs“ were not allowed to be built due to any professional association insurance regulations and were replaced by a rough gully that could withstand the approval ”out of embarrassment”

The viewing platform is crowned by five tall hornbeams, which give the bastion its character that is visible from afar. On the parapet of the bastion wall there are stainless steel panels with engraved texts that should explain the view, but have since been made almost unusable by vandals:

“Instead of the usual panorama boards on the hiking club's viewing platforms, [the Stuttgart journalist] Karl Heinz Fuchs ... not only described the places you see, but also told and wrote down contemplative, humorous and profound stories about the most important and interesting points . Unfortunately the texts have yellowed, are smeared and no longer renewed. "
Four panorama boards in their current state (2013).

literature

  • Christoph Gunßer: The international horticultural exhibition Iga Expo '93 in Stuttgart. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung db. Journal for Architects and Civil Engineers 127.1993, Issue 6, pp. 14–28, here: 23.
  • Christof Luz; Hans Luz: Overall planning of permanent facilities: Das Grüne U. In: Garten + Landschaft. 103.1993, issue 7, pp. 18–28, here: 27.
  • Christof Luz; Hans Luz: Planning concept. Landscaping. In: Klaus-Jürgen Evert (editor): The permanent systems. IGA Stuttgart 1993. Munich 1993, pp. 12-17, here: 15.
  • Hans Luz: From Vorgartenmäuerle to Green U. Forty years of landscape gardener. A work report by Hans Luz , Stuttgart 1992, pp. 172–173.
  • Hans Luz: The Killesberg Tower as part of the “Green U”. In: Petra Kiedaisch (editor): Towers are dreams. The Killesberg Tower by Jörg Schlaich. With an essay by Christoph Hackelsberger. Ludwigsburg 2001, pp. 26–35, here: 30.
  • Hans Luz: Rund ums Grüne U , manuscript, Stuttgart 2012, pp. 64–65.
  • Heiner Luz: Tree grids and perennials : Plant planning for permanent plants. In: Garden + Landscape. 103.1993, issue 7, pp. 29–31, here: 31.

Web links

Commons : Bastion Leibfried  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • View of the center of Stuttgart from the Leibfried Bastion , Aktiv-Panorama 360 .
  • Topographic map, hybrid map and aerial photos on a scale of 1: 500, city ​​map Stuttgart , search term: Leibfriedscher Garten.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The plan is based on an OpenStreetMap map.
  2. ↑ #Luz, Hans 2001.1 , p. 30.
  3. ↑ #Luz, Christof 1993.3 , p. 15.
  4. ↑ #Luz, Hans 1992 , pp 172-173.
  5. ↑ #Luz, Hans 2012 , p. 65.
  6. ↑ #Luz, Hans 2012 , p. 65.

Coordinates: 48 ° 48 '27.8 "  N , 9 ° 11' 9.4"  E