Lankwitz community park
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| Game reserve in the park | ||
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| place | Berlin | |
| District | Lankwitz | |
| Created | 1910-1912 | |
| Newly designed | 1950, 1956–1985, 2017 | |
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At the community park , Mühlenstrasse, Paul-Schneider-Strasse, Malteserstrasse |
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| Buildings | Game reserve, war memorial | |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , leisure | |
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| Parking area | 103,447 m² | |
52 ° 25 '51 " N , 13 ° 21' 8" E
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The municipal park Lankwitz is a ten- hectare large park in the geographical center of Berlin hamlet Lankwitz in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf .
description
The park has extensive lawns, groups of trees and shrubs and a 4750 m² park pond . The pond and its surroundings were renovated and revitalized between autumn 2016 and May 2017 .
The park also includes aviaries and animal enclosures that include fallow deer , pygmy goats and Cameroon sheep . There are children's playgrounds, sports facilities (such as for soccer ), a fitness trail and a mini golf course . A 13 meter high hill is part of the park, which can be used as a toboggan run in winter . On the edge of the park is the barrier-free senior leisure facility Clubhaus Lankwitz , near the flower beds with benches and chess tables . The playground on Mühlenstraße was renovated from 2016 to 2017.
There is also a stone rotunda on the hill, the memorial for the fallen soldiers of the First and Second World Wars from Lankwitz.
At the lower end of the toboggan run there are two boulders that have been placed under protection as natural monuments of the State of Berlin due to natural history reasons .
history
In September 1909, the municipal council of Lankwitz decided to buy the area to create a central public park, which was initially named Beyendorffpark . It was opened on September 2, 1911 and honored the first mayor of Lankwitz, Rudolf Beyendorff , who was very committed to this project. On the initiative of Beyendorff, the park was laid out in 1910–1912 according to the plans of the garden architect Carl Rimann , who later also planned the garden of the Correns mansion in Lankwitz, known as Siemensvilla .
In the beginning there were tennis courts with changing rooms and a spa facility with a spa fountain house. In winter, the park was ideal for ice skating on an area of 5300 m². The 300 meter long toboggan run was an attraction that even lured Berliners to Lankwitz at the time, so that tickets had to be given out due to the crowd.
In 1919 the park was after the dismissal of Mayor Beyendorff result of the November Revolution in community park renamed. From 1933 the park was renamed Beyendorffpark again , but was renamed the community park by the National Socialists in 1939 due to Beyendorff's refusal to join the NSDAP .
The adjacent street Am Gemeindepark in Lankwitz was named after the park. Like the park, the street was renamed several times, from September 2, 1911 to 1919 and 1933–1939 it was called Am Beyendorffpark .
The warrior memorial for the fallen soldiers of the First World War from Lankwitz, built according to plans by Fritz Freymüller , was opened in 1926 on the highest viewpoint on the hill. After the Second World War it was rededicated as a memorial for war victims of both world wars.
The park and the memorial are under monument protection .
The memorial
The memorial rises on the 13 meter high hill, looking like a ruin in its simplicity. It was built to commemorate around 400 citizens of Lankwitz who fell in World War I.
Around 1920, the monument was already in the planning of the architect and construction officer Fritz Freymüller . On October 24, 1920, the memorial plaques with the names of the fallen in the Trinity Church were solemnly consecrated . The festive opening of the warrior memorial finally took place on June 13, 1926.
Surrounded by a round limestone wall with arched window caves , on the inside the memorial plaques with the names, there is an old chestnut in the middle of the memorial , which is surrounded by a stone bench with three steles .
The first stele shows an oath hand in relief, “symbol of love, loyalty and fulfillment of duty towards the fatherland”, as well as the inscription “dead heroes live in the glory of deeds”. The second stele indicates eternity by means of a Christian cross. The third stele shows a woman with a ploughshare in the sunbeam and a flying eagle. This is intended to be a memorial to the women who did the work of their husbands during World War I. The sunbeam and the eagle are supposed to announce that the place in the sun can be regained through work. In the Lankwitz Chronicle it says about the monument: "Love (fatherland), faith (eternity) and hope (work) should show us the way to live and work in the spirit of the dead heroes."
After the end of the Second World War, the dates of the same were added on the outside above the entrance and the memorial was also dedicated to the fallen Lankwitzers of the Second World War.
The memorial has been closed for years due to vandalism . The reservist comradeship Lankwitz cleaned and renovated the monument in 2002, but it was destroyed again afterwards.
“Those looking for relaxation would be shocked by the decay of the monument due to destructive smears of paint, the chipping off of the roof ring tiles and the smashing of the figurative decorative steles. […] This state of affairs does not show any honorable memory of people, is not a legally required monument protection and no recognition of the architecture of the architect who created a monument without a martial warrior figure, without cheering patriotism or military gesture, an architect who did murder in the trenches of Sedan suffered and refused to join new rulers until he was given up as a Steglitz City Councilor in 1933. "
Two erratic blocks at the end of the toboggan run
More boulders near the corner of Beselerstraße and Am Gemeindepark
Discus thrower by Hans Bautz , 1957
Statue by IBM Germany , 1959
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literature
- Paul Hiller: Chronicle Lankwitz (= preprint. Volume No. 5/6). Word & Image Specials, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-926578-19-X , pp. 131-133.
- Fritz Zahn: Competition for the community park in Berlin-Lankwitz . In: Die Gartenkunst , No. 11/1910, pp. 181–187 (digitized version ) .
- Marina Goertz: Lankwitz Community Park . In: dies .: Green oases in Berlin. Leisure and recreation in parks and gardens. Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-87584-764-4 , pp. 107-108.
Web links
- Stations in Lankwitz district office Steglitz – Zehlendorf
- Tour 23: Lankwitz on kulturfuehrer-berlin.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Lankwitz community park in the Berlin State Monument List
- ↑ a b press release: Lankwitz community park: successful renovation and revitalization of the park pond . District Office Steglitz-Zehlendorf, press release No. 408, May 23, 2017, accessed on March 6, 2018.
- ↑ Umweltamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf von Berlin: Wasserbuch Steglitz-Zehlendorf ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 376 kB). Water no. (from 2001): 5832587. As of December 17, 2007. Accessed January 13, 2016.
- ↑ The playground in the Lankwitz community park has been redesigned - beautiful, but something is missing . In: Stadtrand-Nachrichten, July 17, 2017, accessed March 6, 2018.
- ↑ Playground in the Lankwitz community park is reopened . In: Berliner Morgenpost , July 13, 2017, accessed on March 11, 2018.
- ↑ Ordinance on the Protection of Natural Monuments in Berlin . March 2, 1993 (GVBl. P. 155; last amended Amendment Regulation of December 4, 2001, GVBl. 2002 p. 33).
- ↑ a b c memorial! In: KiezKontakt - newspaper for Steglitz-Zehlendorf and Tempelhof-Schöneberg , 8th volume, No. 3/2011, Berlin 2011, p. 10.
- ^ At the Beyendorffpark . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
- ↑ At the community park . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )
- ↑ a b War memorial at the community park in the Berlin State Monument List
- ↑ Tour 23: Lankwitz. In: Kulturfuehrer-berlin.de. Kulturring in Berlin e. V., accessed March 4, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Paul Hiller: Chronik Lankwitz […] Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-926578-19-X , p. 132.
- ^ Heinz Becker: Lankwitz Historical Working Group. (No longer available online.) In: Berlin.de. Steglitz-Zehlendorf district office of Berlin, archived from the original on May 20, 2009 ; Retrieved March 22, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
