Green city of Zurich
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| legal form | Municipal Service Department |
| founding | 1858 |
| Seat | Zurich , Switzerland |
| management | Christine Bräm |
| Number of employees | 500 (2016) |
| Branch | Planning, construction and maintenance of parks, green spaces and open spaces, landscape development, nature conservation, leasing of allotment garden areas and agricultural land, agriculture, forestry, gardening, environmental education |
| Website | www.stadt-zuerich.ch/gsz |
Green City Zurich (GSZ) is a service department of the Civil Engineering and Waste Management Department (TED) of the City of Zurich and is responsible for the construction, care and maintenance of all urban green spaces, such as parks, sports facilities, urban forest, cemeteries, bathing establishments and playgrounds. Ten farms, nine of which are leased, several nature schools, the city gardening facility , the succulent plant collection and the Chinese garden are also run by Grün Stadt Zürich.
Field of activity
The service department is divided into the business areas of operations , services , nature conservation , planning and construction and maintenance .
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Establishments
The business operations includes the nine urban agricultural tenant farms and urban Gutsbetrieb Juchhof. At the Juchhof, the guidelines of the ecological performance certificate ÖLN are managed. The urban forest with around 1200 hectares is also part of it and is sustainably managed by the forest areas Uetliberg and Nord. The Stadtgärtnerei with various courses and events around the Green knowledge is as much in the department as well as the leasing of Garden -Arealen with 6,000 allotments and land plots. The main task of the city nursery is the cultivation of around 250,000 plants annually for public flower borders. The workshops and logistics department with carpentry, painting and mechanical workshop is responsible for the procurement of materials, the vehicle fleet and repairs.
services
The Services division provides the commercial support services. He coordinates and supports business processes, especially in the areas of human resources, finance and controlling, system management (IT and geographic information system GIS) and law. The public can see the effects of the activities on the labor market in the results of the regular user surveys to determine the impact balance, in annual and financial reports as well as in quality management.
Promotion of nature
The nature promotion division is committed to preserving valuable habitats for animals and plants and actively promoting them, awakening joy in nature and conveying the value of a diverse urban nature . The four urban rangers ensure that people and wild animals live together in harmony in the urban area . The nature schools offer age-appropriate nature experiences for the students of the city of Zurich . A wide range of courses and events contributes to understanding nature. The succulent collection has housed one of the largest and most important special collections of succulent plants with approx. 6500 different species from more than 50 different plant families.
Planning and construction
Open space planning , open space advice, garden monument maintenance as well as project planning and construction are the core businesses of the planning and construction division . The spectrum ranges from future-oriented planning and conceptual development of new green and open spaces to advice and support for specific construction projects to the protection and development of valuable gardens in the city. The construction and maintenance of the parks, cemeteries, sports facilities, schools and bathing facilities in the urban environment as well as the public facilities in the landscape context are part of this.
Entertains
The approximately 200 employees in the division maintain and look after parks and facilities, street trees, playgrounds, brook banks, cemeteries and graves, sports facilities and sports fields as well as bathing facilities. The maintenance division works according to the principle of sustainability and is committed to the preservation and promotion of biodiversity . The green urban area is divided into 12 districts; these are managed by green space administrators who are the contact persons for the residents of the neighborhood.
history
At the end of the 18th century, a gardener was entrusted with the maintenance of the new Sihlhölzli and the public facilities. The official beginnings of the municipal garden administration go back to the year 1858, with the appointment of Caspar Hartmann as the first city gardener. Until then, the city promenades were tended by city employees who, in the opinion of the city council, were not fulfilling their duties and who, for the most part, had no gardening skills.
The inauguration of the quay in 1887 and the first large incorporation of previously independent communities around what is now the city center made Zurich the first major Swiss city. These circumstances changed and expanded the tasks of the garden administration considerably. Gottlieb Friedrich Rothpletz took over the role of city gardener in the promenade system at that time and in 1902 became head of the newly created horticultural office. Rothpletz's influence can still be seen today, among other things, in the Josefswiese as a people's park, which was designed in the spirit of the German landscape architect and social reformer Leberecht Migge , and the forests near the city as a recreational area. B. the Belvoirpark.
At the end of the 1920s, the cactus grower Jakob Gasser wanted to sell his collection to the city of Zurich. However, the venture failed. In 1929, the department store owner Julius Brann acquired the Gasser collection and made it a gift to the city. An expert opinion by the botany professor Carl Schröter had the effect that the unique collection was gladly accepted as a gift. Two years later, today's succulent collection , under the name "Municipal Cactus Collection " at the time, was able to move into its new home in the greenhouses of the former municipal nursery on Mythenquai.
In 1934, the second incorporation of several suburbs followed and the areas of responsibility of the horticultural office increased again considerably. From 1940, the urban green spaces were converted into cultivation areas as part of the cultivation battle, also known as Plan Wahlen , in order to increase the self-sufficiency of the population. In 1941 the new urban gardening building designed by the architect Heinrich Weilenmann was completed in the classic modern style with wall paintings by Karla Götz (1904–1968) in Sackzelg, Zurich- Albisrieden . After the reconstruction of the city nursery in 1962, the sand garden was laid out.
Since the population had gotten a taste for gardening through the so-called war gardens, numerous allotment garden areas were created in the city from 1946 . In 1959 Walter Frischknecht joined the Horticultural Office for re-use of the areas of the first Swiss Horticultural Exhibition of 1959, the so-called G | 59, and for other design tasks. He was in charge of numerous projects such as the Muraltengut Rose Plant (1960), the Seeuferweg (1963), the Utoquai Lake Promenade (1971), the Schanzengraben (1982–1984) and the Iris Garden (1985).
On the initiative of Heinrich Zweifel, the first new vines were planted from 1969 below the church in Höngg in the western part and later also in the eastern part of the Chillesteig. Today, Grün Stadt Zürich cultivates the urban vineyard in Höngg. From the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, staff shortages were a constant issue, which is why the maintenance work could no longer be fully guaranteed. In 1975 a full-time personnel department was established with an administrative secretary who took care of the personnel issues of the workforce, which has now grown to around 400 people.
In 1985 the population of Zurich resisted with several initiatives for the preservation of green and open space, whereupon the horticultural office had an open space concept drawn up. In the same year, the Nature Conservation Unit was created, followed by the Garden Monument Preservation Unit in 1989.
The first major restructuring took place in 1996, when the agricultural sector, which was previously subordinate to the Health and Economic Department, was incorporated into the Horticultural Department and subordinated to the Civil Engineering and Waste Management Department. The horticultural office was renamed the horticultural and agricultural office. Four years later, Ernst Tschannen was entrusted with the task of merging the departments for horticulture, agriculture and forest. The newly created service department has been called the Green City of Zurich since 2000.
From 2001 to 2005, several new parks were created in Zurich-North: Oerliker Park (2001), MFO-Park (2002), Louis-Häfliger-Park (2003), Wahlenpark (2005) and Leutschenpark (2008), all of which are characterized by a modern and contemporary appearance.
From 2002 to 2011, Grün Stadt Zürich published the magazine “Grünzeit” every quarter. The first GrünForum, a public event with presentations on current topics and a panel discussion, took place in 2003.
In 2006, Grün Stadt Zürich published the “Green Book of the City of Zurich”, the corporate strategy for the next 10 years.
The first playground that was created through the active participation of children from the neighborhood was opened in Hardau in 2007. In 2008, Grün Stadt Zürich was given the opportunity to temporarily use a fallow area for the first time.
The Wilderness Park Zurich has been run as an independent foundation since January 1, 2009 and since September 2009 has been labeled "Nature Adventure Park ". In January 2010, until now in charge of the water supply was China Garden of Green city over Zurich.
In 2011, Grün Stadt Zürich, together with the Federation of Swiss Landscape Architects BSLA, hosted the 48th World Congress of the International Federation of Landscape Architects IFLA in Zurich.
In October 2013 Christine Bräm took over the management of Grün Stadt Zürich.
In 2014, the listed ensemble with palm house and palm tower was renovated in the style of the new building of the city gardening center in Sackzelg and a new foyer, a wheelchair-accessible circular path with a viewing platform and two seminar rooms with a view of the flora were created. A public tropical and subtropical house was set up in the workhouse. In the new subtropical house, which replaces two greenhouses, dry plants from two climatic zones of Madagascar are shown.
Web links
literature
- Anne Hansen, Men Kräuchi: Zurich's green islands: en route in 75 gardens and parks. Edited by the Horticultural and Agriculture Office of the City of Zurich; Judith Rohrer, Garden Monument Preservation Department. Zurich: vdf Hochschulverlag at the ETH Zurich, 1997. 192 pp. ISBN 3-7281-2315-3
- Historic gardens and parks in the city of Zurich. Edited by the Zurich Horticultural Office, Office for Garden Monument Preservation. Zurich: Genossenschaftsdruckerei, 1989. 119 p. Private printing
- Claudia Moll: Zurich: a companion to new landscape architecture. Munich: Callwey, 2006. 80 pp. ISBN 978-3-7667-1680-4
- Judith Rohrer-Amberg, Silvia Steeb: 12 gardens: historical grounds in Zurich. Zurich: Contrast, 2004. 143 pages ISBN 3-906729-29-X
- Roman G. Schönauer: From the city on the river to the city on the lake: 100 years of the Zurich quay. Zurich: City Archives, 1987. 99 pp.
- Out and about in Zurich and Winterthur: Landscape Architecture and Urban Spaces, 2000–2009. Edited by Roderick Hönig, Claudia Moll, Björn Allemann. Zurich: Edition Hochparterre at Scheidegger & Spiess, 2009. 168 pp. ISBN 978-3-85881-247-6
Further publications
- Elisabeth Bühler, Heidi Kaspar, Frank Ostermann: Socially sustainable parks [using the example of three parks in the city of Zurich: Savera area, bakery and Wahlenpark]. Zurich: vdf Hochschulverlag AG at ETH Zurich , 2010. 184 pp. (Research report NRP 54, Sustainable Settlement and Infrastructure Development) ISBN 978-3-7281-3309-0 Also available as an e-book
- Historic Gardens & Landscapes: Preservation and Development. Conference report, ed. from the Institute for the History and Theory of Landscape Architecture GTLA at the University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil HSR. Zurich: vdf Hochschul-Verlag at the ETH Zurich, 2005. 136 pp. ISBN 978-3-7281-3019-8
- Landscape architecture guide Switzerland. Edited by Udo Weilacher, Peter Wullschleger et al. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2002. 355 pp.
- Christian Leisi, Daniela Bächli: Limmatraum City of Zurich: Landscape Development Concept (LEK). Zurich: Green City of Zurich, 2006. 86 pp., 8 maps
- Use and ornament: fifty historical gardens in Switzerland. Edited by Brigitt Sigel u. a. with photographs by Heinz Dieter Finck. Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2006. 336 pp. ISBN 978-3-85881-182-0
- Rotzler Krebs Partner GmbH: Mission Statement Sihlraum. Edited by Grün Stadt Zürich, Office for Urban Development, Civil Engineering Office of the City of Zurich, AWEL. Zurich: Green City of Zurich, 2003. sp
- Urban landscapes: Swiss garden art in the age of industrialization. Edited by Julia Burbulla u. a. With photographs by Anna Halm Schudel and Peter Schudel. Zurich: Offizin Verlag, 2006. 167 pp. ISBN 978-3-907496-44-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b R. von Wyss, A. Senti: Zurich's parks and green spaces. In: Zürcher statistical Nachrichten, 1952 (1), special edition, 50 pp.
- ↑ Protocols of the building commission, 1846–1860.
- ↑ Tanja Hirsig, Johannes Stoffler: Garden Inspector Rothpletz (1864–1932) and the urban green in Zurich, a search for clues. In: Topiaria Helvetica 2006, pp. 13-19.
- ↑ Friends of the Succulent Collection Website of the Friends of the Zurich Succulent Collection.
- ↑ a b c Grün Stadt Zürich ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Green City of Zurich website.
- ^ Walter Frischknecht: Green Works for the City of Zurich 1959–1990. Self-published, 1990.
- ^ Annual reports Grün Stadt Zürich, 1946–1996.
- ↑ The Green Book of the City of Zurich. Cordula Weber et al., Grün Stadt Zürich, 2006, 155 pages.
- ^ Annual reports Green City of Zurich, 2001–2009.
- ↑ Stadtgärtnerei Zürich: Baudocumentation 2014 ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2015 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.
