Federal Horticultural Show 1981

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The 1981 Federal Garden Show took place in Kassel from April 30th to October 18th, 1981 . The theme of the show was the changing relationship between humans and their natural environment - from ruthless exploiters to cautious designers .

Aue playground in the Fuldaaue, which was used as a BUGA site in 1981 (2011)

prehistory

The Federal Garden Show 1981 was the second Federal Garden Show that took place in Kassel. The Karlsaue had already been used by the Federal Garden Show in 1955 . The 1981 Federal Horticultural Show also used the newly developed Fulda floodplain . In 1976 the city decided to host the Federal Horticultural Show in 1981 . For this purpose, a Federal Horticultural Show was founded in 1981 Kassel GmbH .

With regard to the Karlsaue , its owner, the State of Hesse , represented by the administration of the State Palaces and Gardens of Hesse (VSG), and the city of Kassel pursued opposing ideas: the VSG wanted to reconstruct the Karlsaue in a baroque style from the point of view of monument preservation , the city looked at the area - contrary the ownership structure - as a city ​​park .

The Fuldaaue to use as a recreational area for the city, have been held since the early 1960s in discussion, but initially failed because of competing demands of agriculture. However, gravel had already been extracted here before the Second World War .

preparation

The Karlsaue, 1981 exhibition site, with the orangery rebuilt for it

It began with a competition to design the site, for which five entries were received. However, a first prize was not awarded. The contract was awarded to the landscape architect Wolfgang Miller .

In preparation for the Federal Horticultural Show in 1981 , gravel mining was continued in the Fuldaaue and from the end of the 1960s a lake landscape was created that met the requirements of leisure as well as nature and flood protection.

The conflict between the VSG and the city over the Karlsaue was resolved by the fact that the Karlsaue was renovated for the Federal Horticultural Show in 1981 , especially the paths and bank reinforcements. The tree maintenance work was extensive . The orangery , which had only been provisionally restored for the 1955 Federal Garden Show, had been rebuilt, outwardly in the 18th-century shapes, and the garden parterre in front of the orangery was reconstructed in baroque style. The exhibition areas and halls necessary for a garden show, on the other hand, were housed in the Fuldaaue.

The garden show

The 1981 Federal Garden Show counted 5.5 million visitors in the 172 days on which it was open to the public.

Horticultural design

The exhibition area was 235 hectares in size. The Karlsaue, more horticultural than the Fuldaaue, turned out to be the more attractive part of the exhibition for the visitors. 18 themed gardens were created here.

Park railway

A park railway was laid as a circular route to open up the Federal Garden Show , with which the two exhibition areas, Fuldaaue and Karlsaue, were connected via two bridges crossing the Fulda . Ten locomotives built by Chance Rides in the USA were used , which had a Ford diesel engine and were based on the outside of the Huntington CP , a steam locomotive of the Southern Pacific . Although the runway was very well received by the visitors, it had to be dismantled at the end of the Federal Horticultural Show. It disrupted the concept of the VSG, which wanted to design the Karlsaue in a historicising way. The vehicles were u. a. sold to the Heide-Park Soltau and the leisure park Jaderberg near Wilhelmshaven.

aftermath

The fixtures for the exhibition in the Karlsaue were largely dismantled again, unless they were reconstructions under the preservation order, so that nothing can be seen there of the Federal Horticultural Show in 1981 . That dragged on until autumn 1982. The Fuldaaue, on the other hand, continues to present itself as it was then prepared for the exhibition. Today it is an open space that is widely used for sport and recreation.

Worth knowing

Karlsaue and Fuldaaue form one of the largest inner-city parks in Germany.

Two pebble ponds in the Fuldaaue bore the popular name "Buga" after the Federal Horticultural Show in 1981.

literature

  • Federal Garden Show 1981 Kassel GmbH (ed.): Handbook of the Federal Garden Show 1981 (official exhibition catalog) . Paul Diedrichs, Kassel 1981.
  • KH Hüllbusch: Destroyed by care. The Kassel Karlsaue before the Federal Garden Show . In: H. Böse-Vetter, KH Hüllbusch (ed.): SchauDerGärten . Kassel 1995, pp. 65-67.
  • Magistrate of the City of Kassel (ed.): Kassel, Federal Garden Show 1981 . [Results of the competition Bundesgartenschau Kassel 1981].
  • Rudolf Mazarin: The main planning areas Fuldaaue and Karlsaue . In: Garten + Landschaft 4/1981, pp. 273–280.
  • Wolfgang Miller: Federal Garden Show Kassel 1981 - competition, order and realization . In: Garten + Landschaft 4/1981, pp. 259–268.
  • Helga Panten: The Federal Garden Show in the Karlsaue . 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, p. 100.
  • Helga Panten: The federal horticultural shows . Ulmer Verlag 1987.
  • Michael Rohde, Horst Becker, Jörn Langhorst, Michael Karkosch: Staatspark Karlsaue Kassel, Parkpflegewerk . Bad Homburg v. d. Height 2004. ISBN 3-7954-1532-2
  • Philipp Schneggenburger: Federal Garden Show Kassel 1981 . 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. 97-107.
  • Hans-Jürgen Taurit: Federal Garden Show Kassel 1981. A positive contribution to urban development and the topic of the Federal Garden Show . In: The Garden Office 9/1977.
  • Hans-Jürgen Taurit: Aims of the city and the choice of the site . In: Garden and Landscape 4/1981, pp. 269–272.

Web links

Commons : Bundesgartenschau 1981  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schneggenburger: Bundesgartenschau Kassel 1981 , p. 102.
  2. ↑ Rohde u. a .: Karlsaue State Park , p. 132.
  3. ↑ Schneggenburger: Bundesgartenschau Kassel 1981 , p. 97f.
  4. ^ Schneggenburger: Bundesgartenschau Kassel 1981 , p. 97.
  5. ↑ Schneggenburger: Bundesgartenschau Kassel 1981 , p. 103.
  6. ↑ Rohde u. a .: Karlsaue State Park , p. 132.
  7. ↑ Schneggenburger: Bundesgartenschau Kassel 1981 , p. 103.
  8. ↑ Schneggenburger: Bundesgartenschau Kassel 1981 , p. 103.
  9. ^ Panten: The Federal Garden Show in the Karlsaue ; Schneggenburger: Bundesgartenschau Kassel 1981 , p. 100.
  10. ↑ Schneggenburger: Bundesgartenschau Kassel 1981 , p. 106.
  11. ↑ Rohde u. a .: Karlsaue State Park , p. 132.
  12. ↑ Rohde u. a .: Karlsaue State Park , p. 134.
  13. ↑ Dietrich Meier's hobby page. Retrieved April 13, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Rohde u. a .: Karlsaue State Park , p. 133.
  15. ^ Panten: The Federal Garden Show in the Karlsaue .
  16. ^ German Federal Garden Show Society: BUGA Kassel 1981. Accessed on April 13, 2018 .
  17. ^ Schneggenburger: Bundesgartenschau Kassel 1981 , p. 97.