Neu-Altona green corridor

Green corridor at Walter-Möller-Park: the "relaxed city"

The Neu-Altona green corridor is an overall landscape plan in Altona's old town , with which several parks and green areas are connected from the Holstenbahnhof to the fish market . It passes through the former Altona city center, which was completely demolished in the 1950s after the massive destruction of the Second World War and redesigned as New Altona based on the model of a “structured and relaxed city”.

The facility goes back to a design by landscape architect Herta Hammerbacher from 1956 and is expressly a free space reserved for pedestrians in modern post-war urban planning. Over the decades numerous changes have been made to the design and several peripheral areas have been rebuilt, but the basic concept has been retained.

The green corridor extends over a length of about 1.8 kilometers, the width varies between 80 and 200 meters. The footpaths lead from north to south from Holstenplatz and the Evangelical Free Church Christ Church through Bertha-von-Suttner-Park , cross Max-Brauer-Allee , touch Wohlers Park and run through Emil-Wendt-Park next to Gählerstrasse . A pedestrian bridge leads over Holstenstraße into Walter-Möller-Park , after crossing Louise-Schröder-Straße it goes along the Jewish cemetery to Königstraße, past the St. Trinity Church and down the Hexenberg to an underpass the Breite Straße, at the Minerva fountain on the fish market and on the banks of the Elbe.