Federal Garden Show 1965

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The 1965 Federal Horticultural Show took place in Essen from April 29 to October 17, 1965 .

preparation

The grounds of the Grugapark served as an exhibition area. It had previously hosted the Great Ruhr Land Horticultural Exhibition in 1929 , the Reichsgartenschau in 1938 and the Second Gruga Exhibition in 1952 .

The area of ​​the park was expanded to its present size of around 70 hectares for the Federal Horticultural Show in 1965 and also connected to the Botanical Garden. For this purpose, among other things, 600 allotment gardens, the city nursery and a road between Lührmannstrasse and Norbertstrasse were laid. During the renovation for the Federal Horticultural Show , the park was closed for two years. The redesign of the park cost around 30 million DM .

Garden show

Federal President Heinrich Lübke opened the Federal Horticultural Show in the Grugahalle in front of 6,000 invited guests, including Mayor Wilhelm Nieswandt , Horticultural Director Helmut Klausch and Prime Minister Franz Meyers . The garden show grounds had six entrances.

For the Federal Garden Show, recreational and leisure opportunities, especially for families with children, were created, including playgrounds, a pony riding track, a gondola pond (the adventure playground is located there today), a 2500 square meter mini golf course and a 60 × 30 meter roller skating rink The spectators counted. In the year of the Federal Horticultural Show, the roller and ice sports club Gruga Essen e. V. founded, which shared the new railway with two other clubs.

The main entrance area south of the Grugahalle was equipped in front of the Großer Blumenhof, the largest gastronomy area in the Gruga, with wide water fountains, the long nozzles of which were modeled on colored pencils. Instead of the wooded valley between the old Grugapark and the Botanical Garden, there was Lake Margarethensee, named after the entrepreneur and founder of the monastery, Margarethe Krupp . The Friedrich Krupp AG had erected at the eastern entrance tower with a cast steel bells on loan for the Federal Garden Show. The circular dahlia arena was opened to the west of the valley to allow a view of the Alpinum in the botanical garden. The Kordes Garden was built in front of the music pavilion with a pointed roof to the north. Gruga concerts took place here on Sundays and had been broadcast by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) since the mid-1950s . This garden later gave way to today's area with changing planting. In the area of ​​today's orangery there were plant showhouses flanked by a terrarium to the west and an aquarium to the east . To the east of the aquarium was the seal pool .

The park railway of the Grugapark received a partially new, extended route because of the expansion of the Gruga site for the Federal Garden Show .

The entrance fee during the Federal Garden Show was 2.50 DM for adults  and 1 DM for children. The Federal Garden Show was attended by 5.3 million guests. Already on the opening day - in rainy weather - 30,000 visitors came, on the following sunny May Day there was a visitor record of 180,000 in one day, which was never reached again.

Lasting

The reading pavilion is the last remaining building from the 1965 Federal Horticultural Show.

After the main paths of the Grugapark were paved for the first time for the Federal Garden Show, the park, which had only been open between April and October, could then be visited all year round.

literature

  • Grugapark Essen: Federal Garden Show Essen 1965 - Grugapark oasis in bloom . In: Deutsche Bundesgartenschau GmbH (ed.): 50 years of federal horticultural shows. Festschrift on the history of the federal and international garden shows in Germany . Bonn 2001, pp. 47-56.

Web links

Commons : Bundesgartenschau 1965  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grugapark Essen: Federal Garden Show , p. 47.
  2. ↑ Grugapark Essen: Federal Garden Show , p. 52.
  3. ↑ Grugapark Essen: Federal Garden Show , p. 55.
  4. ↑ Gruga expansion 1965 - milestone for “green” food ; In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of April 28, 2014; accessed on February 7, 2019.
  5. ↑ Gruga expansion 1965 - milestone for “green” food ; In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of April 28, 2014; accessed on February 7, 2019.
  6. ↑ The old mini golf course in the Gruga is to give way to sports equipment. , In: DerWesten.de , December 16, 2014, accessed on February 7, 2019.
  7. ^ REV Gruga: Association history ; accessed on February 7, 2019.
  8. ↑ Park plan of the Gruga 1965.
  9. ^ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of September 16, 1965.
  10. ↑ Grugapark Essen: Federal Garden Show , p. 55.
  11. ↑ How gardeners made Essen happy with the new Gruga. In: DerWesten.de. May 6, 2015; accessed on February 7, 2019.
  12. ↑ Citizens and Tourist Association Essen-Rüttenscheid e. V. (ed.): 1000 years of Rüttenscheid. Essen-Rüttenscheid 1970. Without ISBN.