Eberswalde family garden
The Eberswalde Family Garden is a landscape park developed for the second Brandenburg State Horticultural Show in 2002 on the area of an old rolling mill in Eberswalde and has served as a leisure and event area since then. The design was carried out by the landscape architecture firm Topotek 1 from Berlin. It combines industrial culture with garden art and recreational use .
history
The Finow valley is the oldest industrial landscape in the Mark Brandenburg . The formerly so-called “Brandenburg Wuppertal ” was created at the beginning of the 17th century in Eberswalde and Heegermühle (today E.-Finow) with the districts of Kupferhammer , Messingwerk and Eisenspalterei along the Finow Canal .
In 1998 a competition was held to redesign the former “old works” ( Finow rolling mill in iron cleavage). Finally, in 2002, the second Brandenburg State Garden Show was opened under the motto "Blossom Dreams on the Finow Canal".
use
The family park in the west of the Eberswalde city center is open from April 1st. until October 31 accessible against admission .
The gardens include, among other things, an Asian garden with bonsai and a model railway , a Japanese garden , a walk-in water garden known as the “Jesus Garden” , a pharmacy garden and a hornbeam hedge garden . Playgrounds , a tourist information office, restaurants and conference and event rooms are also available.
In addition, technical systems and structures can be visited, including the sheet metal house, the horseshoe factory, remains of the old rolling mill and - as a landmark of Eberswald and a landmark that can be seen from afar - the crane called the "boar crane" or " assembly boar" from the 1950s with a viewing platform. The “company arks”, the underground world of the sinter canals, can be ridden with pedal boats ; There are also remains of the first rolling mill and two chimneys. However, not much of the actual old work has survived.
Other attractions in the park are a steam storage locomotive and the “world's largest pocket watch ”, which is included in the Guinness Book of Records and weighs around 20 t .
In addition to events of local importance such as B. the Finow Canal Festival , the family park is also used for concerts by nationally known artists. a. by Bonnie Tyler and Matthias Reim . Open-air concerts take place on the open-air stage, which can hold up to 4,000 people , while indoor concerts take place in the horseshoe factory used as a town hall .
The discotheque "Altwerk" on the site of the former pipeline construction near the Altwerk has nothing to do with the actual Altwerk, it just uses this name.
literature
- Christian Härtel : An industrial area in transition. be.bra, Berlin 2002 (book accompanying the state garden show, guide through the facilities and historical background to the Finow valley).
Web links
footnote
- ↑ Zeit Online 2003: "From the industrial wasteland to the art landscape"
Coordinates: 52 ° 50 ′ 28.1 ″ N , 13 ° 46 ′ 1.5 ″ E