Carus Park

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Carus Park
District of Schweinfurt
Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 4 ″  N , 10 ° 12 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 235 m
Area : 2.62 km²
Postal code : 97424
Area code : 09721
Landmark of the Carus Park. US headquarters of the Ledward Barracks. Today a branch of the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation (IPA)

The Carus Park , named in 2017, is a district of the independent city of Schweinfurt in the north-western part of the city . The area is identical in area to the former Ledward Barracks (1946–2014). It is a district under construction for research , science , teaching, student housing and leisure.

location

Carus Park is located in the northwest part of the city . The 26.2 hectare former barracks area is located approx. 1.5 km northwest of the city center and 1.5 km north of the Main on Niederwerrner Straße, an arterial road ( B 303 ) in the direction of Bad Kissingen and to two motorway junctions for the motorway 71 in the direction of Erfurt and the Autobahn 7 in the direction of Kassel .

Carus Park borders the Willy Sachs Stadium in the west, the Alte Warte allotment garden in the north, the northwestern part of the city (in the narrower sense) in the east and the musicians' quarter in the south . Campus 1 of the FHWS in the Musikerviertel is 500 m south of the i-Campus in Carus-Park and is connected to Richard-Strauss-Strasse and Richard-Wagner-Strasse.

The city ​​bus 21 Mozartstraße leads from the ZOB Roßmarkt to the Carus-Park and a city bus without number (Campus-Express) from the main station .

etymology

Carl Gustav Carus was the 13th President of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , which was founded in Schweinfurt in 1652 and is now the National Academy of Sciences with headquarters in Halle an der Saale . The Carus Park, with a university as future main user, ties in with the academic past of the former imperial city , which was a humanistic center in the 16th  and  17th centuries .

Construction of the Carus Park

Dissolution of the Ledward Barracks

The Ledward Barracks were once a barracks of the Wehrmacht , the so-called Adolf-Hitler-Kaserne (also: Panzerkaserne). 1945 was u. a. the US Army Garrison Schweinfurt founded there, which was dissolved in 2014. So stood u. a. the Ledward Barracks are available for urban development as US conversion space. The barracks initially went into the possession of the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA) at the end of 2014, from which it acquired the city of Schweinfurt on February 26, 2015 for 9.1 million euros. From 2015 to 2019 there were reception facilities for refugees in the southwest area of ​​the Ledward Barracks.

In 2012 it became known that the US Army from Schweinfurt will be withdrawn completely. The barracks initially went into the possession of the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA) at the end of 2014, from which it acquired the city of Schweinfurt on February 26, 2015.

Unsuccessful proposals for a new district

There were initially various suggestions for the future use of the Ledward area. The first, concrete proposal with plans was published in March 2013 by a group of local architects under the name Agenda 21 . For the FHWS, he envisaged a smaller expansion in the three existing barracks blocks around the flag roll call area. Otherwise, the area of ​​the planned i-campus should be renatured, following the theme of nature and life, conquering old barracks , possibly with a new West Park (status 2013).

The Schweinfurt Conversion Advisory Board had already been founded, in which the affected regional authorities , authorities and the IHK were represented. In addition, a consortium led by the consulting firm BulwienGesa in Munich , which prepared a conversion report costing EUR 250,000 and which carried out a public participation in autumn 2012 . Over 200 citizens' suggestions for the use of the numerous US areas were formulated, including a. for Ledward.

All efforts to re-use it did not lead to any result.

i-Campus Schweinfurt

Excavation pit for the first building on the Schweinfurt i-Campus in January 2018. Behind it, the blocks of Ledward Barracks that have been preserved and construction work on Carus Allee on the right

On August 13, 2013, an unexpected turning point was published in the Schweinfurter Tagblatt , with an idea for the establishment of an international university campus, the so-called i-Campus Schweinfurt . This is now the main user of the Carus Park; it is a project for an international university campus of the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS). It is running as part of the internationalization of the university, with newly introduced English-language courses in Schweinfurt (since 2014) and Würzburg (since 2016), which are called FHWS i-Campus .

Carus Avenue

The Carus Allee was intended as the main access axis of the new Carus Park district. As part of the federal program National Urban Development Projects , Carus Allee was selected from 116 applications as one of 17 nationwide projects and funded with four million euros. That was almost ten percent of the total funding amount of 42 million euros. As one of three projects, it received the maximum number of points on the grounds that Carus Allee, as the main connecting axis, forms the basis for the planned international science location. In a subsequent architectural competition, however, the jury selected a work as the basis for the structural implementation that again abandoned the idea of ​​a main connecting axis and only provides for a park-like band for pedestrians, which has been implemented structurally since 2019.

Area for event hall

The town hall on the north-western edge of the city center from the early post-war period no longer meets the requirements placed on it. That is why a new, larger city and event hall is being planned in the southwest corner of the Ledward barracks. The urban planning provides for the new hall right next to the Willy Sachs Stadium , on the corner of Niederwerrner Strasse and Kasernenweg, surrounded by a large car park. There are no concrete plans yet (as of January 2019).

State Garden Show 2026

Previous history

Schweinfurt was awarded the contract for the Bavarian State Garden Show (LGS) 2026. The area comprises a large area in the northwest of the former Ledward Barracks, for which a new festival area was previously planned, and part of the Kessler Field to the northwest , with a total area of 13 hectares. The LGS site in the Ledward area will then serve as a public park with the name Marie-Curie-Park, named after the scientist Marie Curie , who was elected as a member of the Leopoldina in 1932 (see: Etymology ).

On January 20, 2019, a referendum for a city ​​forest and a request for a council for a state horticultural show with a subsequent public park was carried out. The quorum was not achieved in each case. there were more no than yes votes. As a result, both decisions were not binding. Despite the majorities against the city forest and the state horticultural show, the city ​​council resolution of September 25, 2018 for the organization of a state horticultural show continues to apply .

criticism

The planned state horticultural show, which was decided by a city council majority consisting of the CSU , the Greens , the Left and the community of voters proschweinfurt , came under increasing public criticism after the referendums. In particular, since there were more no-votes than yes-votes to the direct question about LGS, without exception through all electoral districts, also in the Musikerviertel , although it should benefit most from the proximity to LGS with the following Bürgerpark . "Group leader Ralf Hofmann [SPD] described the request for a council as a" serious strategic mistake ". The question arises "whether it is wise" to hold on to the garden show. "

The “astonishingly high number of invalid votes” of the two decisions (LGS 10.31%, Stadtwald 12.66%) was also repeatedly addressed. According to the legal basis, a referendum is only successful if in the case of Schweinfurt (50,001 - 100,000 inhabitants) at least 15% of those entitled to vote have voted “Yes”, in this case for the LGS. The no quorum has no legal effect. In this case, the city council had jointly decided to refrain from the city council resolution for LGS. It was therefore questioned whether the 1,141 invalid votes in the LGS council request would have achieved the no-quorum , which had been missed by only 277 votes . Whereupon criticism of criticism arose, u. a. von der Stadt: "Not an arbitrary interpretation of the result, but predictable and responsible action are decisive for the further procedure." Finally, however, it was also disputed whether a no quorum was agreed in the city council at all :

"In the city's current citizens' magazine, the administration provides detailed information on the referendum. Under "What happens if both referendums fail?" stands: "At the meeting of the city council on November 27, 2018, the members of the parliamentary groups largely agreed that if the two referendums fail, there will be no Bavarian State Horticultural Show in Schweinfurt - despite an already positive decision by the committee on November 25. September 2018. " It does not say that the no votes must reach the 15 percent quorum. ” (Stefan Labus, parliamentary group leader of the Schweinfurt List / Free Voters )

In addition, criticism was expressed about the financing of the LGS:

“The title chosen by presenter Frank Farenzki, operator of a television station called Transparency TV, visibly annoyed Mayor Sebastian Remelé (CSU) at the time. The OB explained how each of the twelve million euros gross in the investment and implementation budget are to be financed. But the criticism that the figures were not calculated seriously and that there was a threat of a deficit in the millions has remained to this day. "

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Information: Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks (BImA), Conversion Schweinfurt, as of September 2014
  2. ↑ a b Main Post online edition of July 12, 2016 / updated on July 14: Four million for Carus-Allee
  3. ↑ Schweinfurter Tagblatt: What do the city and district need? March 16, 2013, p. 27
  4. ↑ Hannes Helferich: This is how it will be in the future in Ledward MainPost from February 24, 2016, accessed on July 12, 2018.
  5. ↑ Plan for the State Garden Show 2026 in Schweinfurt. Retrieved August 16, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b Süddeutsche Zeitung: Schweinfurt holds on to the State Garden Show, January 22, 2019. Accessed on January 23, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Main-Post: A LGS in Schweinfurt would be the wrong signal. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
  8. ↑ a b Main-Post: Citizens' decision: The evening of uncomfortable truths, January 21, 2019. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Main-Post: OB refers to a clear legal situation, January 22, 2019. Retrieved on January 26, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Main-Post: perplexity after the referendum, January 21, 2019. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b SchweinfurtCity (swity.de): Statement by the city: Bürgerpark and LGS are coming, January 25, 2019. Retrieved January 28, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Main-Post: City Council: The left turn against the State Garden Show. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Main-Post: Cost estimate: How expensive is the State Garden Show really? January 28, 2019. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .