Clara Zetkin Park (Leipzig)
The Clara-Zetkin-Park (colloquially Clara-Park ), actually Central Culture Park Clara Zetkin , is a park in Leipzig and was Leipzig's largest park from 1955 to 2011 with an area of 125 hectares .
Since 2011 only the previous parks of the former disk wood park and the König-Albert-Park have been called Clara-Zetkin-Park. The park, named after Clara Zetkin (1857–1933), is located about two kilometers southwest of the city center on the edge of the music district and represents the connection between the northern and southern parts of the Leipzig floodplain forest .
History and name
In 1955 the existing parks Johannapark , Scheibenholzpark , König-Albert-Park and Palmengarten were amalgamated on the basis of a resolution of the Leipzig city council and were given the name Central Culture Park "Clara Zetkin" . In addition to the formal merger, the park was further developed in line with the culture park movement of that time by including cultural and sports facilities . It is probably the first large facility in Germany that was designed according to these principles and thus served as a model.
The groundbreaking ceremony took place on January 8, 1955 , and the park was handed over to its intended use as early as May 1, 1955, which in the sense of the propaganda at the time meant “fulfilling the voter mandate to the Volkskammer member Paul Fröhlich (1913-1970 / First Secretary of the SED - District management Leipzig ), which this had received from Leipzig workers ”, was praised.
Most of the cultural and sporting facilities were created in the years after the opening. These included an open-air theater , a cafe, event pavilions , a large children's playground with Imbisspavillon, the building of the Leipzig Chess Center, the dahlias terrace , an outdoor bowling alley and occasionally a training tower for parachutists of the GST .
On July 3, 1967, on the southern tip of Johannapark, at the former location of the Bismarck memorial , the Clara Zetkin memorial was unveiled as a bronze statue , a work by the sculptor Walter Arnold (1909-1979), on the occasion of Clara Zetkin's 110th birthday .
In 2010, after receiving a petition, the Leipzig city administration commissioned a commission to check whether the parts of the park should be renamed to their original names and whether the name Clara-Zetkin-Park should be completely canceled. This sparked a wave of protest. In April 2011 the city council decided that the names Zentraler Kulturpark “Clara Zetkin” and Volkspark im Scheibenholz should be abolished and that the previous sub-areas Palmengarten, Klingerhain, Johannapark and Richard-Wagner-Hain should get their old names back. The former König-Albert-Park (later Albertpark) has been called Clara-Zetkin-Park since then, together with the previous disk wood park , as this name has established itself among the population. The Clara Zetkin Monument is no longer in Clara Zetkin Park, but in Johanna Park.
use
From 1950 to 1958, the 4.3 km long route of the Leipzig City Park Races for motorcycles, sports and racing cars with up to 200,000 spectators ran around and through the park area ; Most of the 11 events were also the GDR championships in motor racing.
In the years after 2000, the former cultural park offers were reactivated. In the summer months, the park stage is a special attraction for concerts and cinema performances and is also one of the open-air venues for the Wave-Gotik-Treffen . The large playground at the southeast end of the park has been redesigned. The former café is now the Glashaus restaurant , and a commercially operated beer and café garden with public events was created at the reconstructed historical music pavilion . The paved Anton-Bruckner-Allee is a preferred meeting point for inline skaters .
In the park at the time of its opening (1955)
The restored historical bandstand (2010)
The Franz Schubert Monument (2010)
The Park Stage (2010)
literature
- Marko Kuhn: The Clara Zetkin Park. Tracks on ice and asphalt . In: Volker Rodekamp (Ed.): On the move. Milestones in the history of sports in Leipzig (topic M. 20). Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-910034-80-8 , pp. 150–157.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plan of the Clara Zetkin parks and the neighboring parks (PDF file, 1.16 MB)
- ^ Parks and green spaces on the website of the City of Leipzig
- ↑ Original description for the picture In the park at the time of its opening
- ↑ a b Marko Kuhn 2018, p. 151.
- ^ Clara Zetkin monument in the Leipzig Lexicon
- ^ Resolution on the renaming on the website of the city of Leipzig. (PDF; 29 kB)
- ↑ Details of the renaming (PDF; 49 kB)
- ↑ Description of the Leipzig start park races and route
- ^ Website of the operator. Retrieved August 18, 2017 .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 50.4 ″ N , 12 ° 21 ′ 20.3 ″ E