Federal Horticultural Show 1995

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Federal Horticultural Show 1995
place Eliaspark, Spreeauenpark
opening April 29, 1995
Opened by Roman Duke
graduation October 8, 1995
Investments 140 million euros
Visitors 2.4 million
Reuse Public park, exhibition center
Logo of the Federal Horticultural Show 1995
Core area of ​​the Federal Horticultural Show 1995
Federal Horticultural Show 1995

The 1995 Federal Garden Show (BUGA 95) took place from April 29 to October 8, 1995 in Cottbus , Brandenburg . Only a few years after German reunification, it was the first federal horticultural show both in Brandenburg and in the new federal states .

history

In 1991 the city ​​council of Cottbus decided to apply for the BUGA 95. The BUGA 95 was originally supposed to take place in Berlin. But Berlin canceled because of its upcoming application for the 2000 Summer Olympics .

The Federal Garden Show was opened by Federal President Roman Herzog in the Stadium of Friendship .

Exhibition area

The exhibition area covered 55 hectares . The center of the Federal Horticultural Show in Cottbus was the Eliaspark , which had existed since 1902, and the Spreeauenpark specially created for the Federal Horticultural Show .

The Eliaspark , which covers a good three hectares, was originally created by a foundation by the Cottbus cloth manufacturer Hermann Elias . It was redesigned for the Federal Garden Show, new paths, play and sports facilities and a water playground were created.

The Spreeauenpark forms since the BUGA 95 on the Spree a bridge between the inner-city green spaces and the Branitz Park in the southeast of the city. The Cottbus zoo is also located here . The entrance area of ​​the zoo, which is already part of the Branitzer Park's outdoor park, was redesigned, as were other urban green spaces, as part of the preparations for the BUGA 95. In the northwest of the Spreeauenpark there is a 1.2 hectare park pond . A rose garden , a rhododendron grove , meadow landscapes with alternating plantings as well as a pharmacist and farm garden were created here. Another attraction here is the tertiary forest with plants and trees from different geological epochs, boulders from the Ice Age and fossil sequoia stumps that are around 1200 years old . It is supposed to represent a living replica of a primeval forest from the lignite age. This project was also opened during the BUGA 95.

Attractions

Hall shows

In order to create sufficient exhibition space for the flower hall shows of the Federal Horticultural Show, halls were built directly at the Spreeauenpark. Today they are part of the Cottbus exhibition center . During the BUGA 95, 22 exhibitions by 590 exhibitors were shown in the halls.

Park railway

Park railway at Spreeauenpark

An important facility of the 1995 Federal Horticultural Show was the Cottbus Park Railway , which had existed since 1954 and was originally a pioneer railway . The narrow-gauge railway runs over a length of 3.2 kilometers from Branitzer Park via Spreeauen- and Eliaspark to the Sandower Dreieck railway and depot , which is on the Cottbus – Forst (Lausitz) railway line and Cottbus-Sandow station . It connected the exhibition and event areas. In the run-up to the Federal Garden Show, parts of the route were re- routed , extended to the newly built Sandower triangle , and additional locomotives and wagons procured. The official handover of the new systems took place on March 28, 1995, the first trip one day later. By the end of the Federal Horticultural Show, the railway had used 650,000 passengers, the highest number in its history.

Conclusion and sustainability

Pavilion in the Spreeauenpark

Cottbus recorded a great image gain through the BUGA 95 and the degree of awareness of the city could be increased significantly. 2.4 million visitors came to see the garden show, the opening day with 46,000 visitors and the closing day with 56,000 visitors being the days with the most visitors at BUGA 95.

The BUGA 95 cost around DM 140 million . It was funded by the state of Brandenburg and the federal government with around DM 95 million . As a result of the Federal Garden Show, more than 1 billion Deutschmarks were invested in Cottbus. The Federal Highway 15 has been specially developed, Cottbus Hauptbahnhof renovated. The BUGA 95 was also the trigger for extensive urban redevelopment . A trade fair and congress center was created from the exhibition halls of the Federal Horticultural Show. The number of beds in hotels and pensions in the city increased from 450 to 2,100.

The re-use of the garden show areas caused problems: the follow-up costs for maintaining and operating the facilities as well as the burdens from loans taken out were underestimated in advance. The central area in the Spreeauenpark remained chargeable for visitors, but other parts of the Federal Garden Show grounds were freely accessible again after the end of the event.

Worth knowing

Buga mascot Otti among visitors at the park railway in Spreeauenpark

Buga's mascot was Otti , an otter who had emerged as the winner of a previous children's competition.

Since the BUGA 95, the City of Cottbus Medal of Honor has been awarded in Cottbus for exceptional services to the common good .

In the meantime, Cottbus has shown interest in hosting another Federal Garden Show, with the Federal Garden Show being planned for 2027 .

literature

  • Waldemar Kleinschmidt : Federal Garden Show Cottbus 1995 - Success depended on courage . 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. 148–153.

Web links

Commons : Bundesgartenschau 1995  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ These included B. the Pushkin promenade and new green areas in Neu-Schmellwitz (Kleinschmidt, p. 152).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kleinschmidt, p. 152.
  2. ↑ Kleinschmidt, p. 148.
  3. ↑ a b c d Susanne Rost: “The former Buga Park in Cottbus is suffering from a dramatic decline in visitors” in the Berliner Zeitung , May 30, 2001.
  4. ^ "BuGa: 20 years ago Cottbus was Germany's number 1 topic" in Der Märkische Bote , April 24, 2015.
  5. ↑ Kleinschmidt, p. 153.
  6. ↑ Kleinschmidt, p. 149.
  7. ^ Eliaspark on the Cottbus municipal homepage ; accessed on May 27, 2017.
  8. ↑ Kleinschmidt, p. 149.
  9. ↑ The Spreeauenpark on the homepage of the Cottbuser Congress, Marketing und Tourismus GmbH , accessed on May 27, 2017.
  10. ↑ The Federal Horticultural Show 1995 on the homepage of the Federal Horticultural Show , accessed on May 27, 2017.
  11. ↑ Kleinschmidt, p. 150.
  12. ↑ Peggy Kompalla: "Small train dreams big". In: Lausitzer Rundschau from April 26, 2017.
  13. ↑ Kleinschmidt, p. 152.
  14. ↑ Kleinschmidt, p. 151.
  15. ↑ The history of the Cottbuser Parkbahn on their homepage , accessed on May 28, 2017.
  16. ↑ Kleinschmidt, p. 153.
  17. ↑ Thomas Klein: "A stroke of luck for Cottbus?" In Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 19, 2001.
  18. ↑ Kleinschmidt, p. 152.
  19. ↑ Kleinschmidt, p. 150.
  20. ↑ a b Tilo Berger: “Cottbus wants the Federal Horticultural Show in 2025” in Sächsische Zeitung , January 11, 2016.
  21. ↑ Kleinschmidt, p. 150.
  22. ↑ Kleinschmidt, p. 150.
  23. ↑ The otter is Buga's mascot . In: Neues Deutschland from December 18, 1993.
  24. ↑ Stephan Meyer: Cottbus awards medals of honor for the 21st time and whistles on its own rule . In: Lausitzer Rundschau from December 4, 2016.
  25. ↑ Peggy Kompalla: Cottbus makes Buga request for 2025 or 2027 official . In: Lausitzer Rundschau, June 26th, 2016. (The Federal Horticultural Show 2025 has now been awarded to Rostock ).

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