Green Bridge (Mainz)

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"Green Bridge - Art & Natural Landscape Mainz 1981"
The Green Bridge spans the Mainzer Rheinallee - Zollhafen and Rhine in the background (2016)

The Green Bridge is a small art and natural landscape in Mainz-Neustadt that has existed since 1981 and was designed in 1977 by the environmental artist Dieter Magnus , who lived in the Neustadt at the time. The planning civil engineer was Horst Waldmann. The Green Bridge has become a model for natural design in public spaces that is widely recognized throughout Germany. Among other things, Dieter Magnus received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for this work in 2012.

Location and facilities

The Green Bridge connects Feldbergstrasse with Feldbergplatz for pedestrians, wheelchair users and cyclists on an area of ​​more than 2000 m² , which are separated by the busy Rheinallee. With the so-called "Foundlingsbrunnen" and a waterfall, it has two striking water features. On Feldbergplatz, the recreational zone of the Green Bridge with park-like plants and play equipment for children continues as far as the banks of the Rhine with the caponier . On the other side, too, this green axis continues through the traffic-calmed Feldbergstrasse, through the green space at Sömmeringplatz and the traffic-calmed Heinrich-Heine-Strasse to the large green area at Goetheplatz. A green pedestrian and bicycle connection has been created from the center of Mainz Neustadt to the banks of the Rhine (so-called “green axis to the Rhine”).

Design close to nature: plants and animals

Red mason bee in vineyard tulip , Green Bridge April 2015
Autumn Maidenhead on the Green Bridge in July 2015
Swallowtail , Green Bridge, April 2017

NABU has been responsible for the natural design of the Green Bridge since 2011 . According to the intention of the environmental artist as possible to cover all areas of the plant with green, located on the Green Bridge next ivy numerous trees, including 40 European yew whose aril is an important source of food for birds in winter city. Planting native wild plants and adding nesting sites is increasingly creating a diverse habitat on a small area. The raspberry species Mainzer Waldfee from the Ober-Olmer Forest has z. B. found a place to live; Raspberries are popular food crops for butterflies. Among the early bloomers strictly nature reserve Weinberg Tulip counts - a highly endangered species, for the preservation of the Rheinhessen region has a special responsibility and as a host plant for wild bees such. B. bumblebees , is ecologically significant. Typical city birds that occur on the area of ​​Grüne Brücke / Feldbergplatz are e.g. B. blue and great tit , blackbird , greenfinch and chaffinch . Starlings like to nest in the hollows of the older plane trees . In the spring you can also hear the song of the blackcap and the robin . The pipistrelle , for which two roosts are mounted on the sides of the waterfall, can be observed in summer at dusk. Large cabbage white and blue buckthorn flutter on butterflies , occasionally also a C-butterfly or small fox or swallowtail . In early spring it is easy to watch the admiral warming up in the sun.

Social city beekeeping

Several bee colonies , with a total of 200,000 honey bees , have been using the naturally redesigned Green Bridge since April 2014. The offer of the “Mixed Bees Group” by the artist group “Finger” from Frankfurt am Main aims to inspire people for nature. In February 2015, the “BEE HAPPY” group came together to provide support from the social therapeutic advice center / support association e. V. (SBB Mainz) added. With professional beekeeping and creative support, SBB clients can take part in the life of the bee colonies for a year and learn the beekeeping trade; The honey from the Green Bridge can be bought in the neighboring health food store.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Inviting green oases" - Federal President Gauck presents environmental artist Magnus with the Cross of Merit. ("Federal President Gauck named the art and natural landscape Green Bridge in Mainz and the multiple award-winning Garnethill Park in Glasgow as the best-known works.") In: Rhein Main Presse ( Allgemeine Zeitung ) of June 8, 2012.
  2. ↑ www.fingerweb.org
  3. ↑ Kirsten Strasser: Mainz: Social city beekeeping on the Green Bridge - 200,000 bees swarm out. On Allgemeine-zeitung.de from May 2, 2014.

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 39.7 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 48.1 ″  E