Falkenberg Manor Park
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| place | Berlin | |
| District | Falkenberg | |
| Created | Late 14th century | |
| Newly designed | Around 1800 as a baroque garden , around 1870 as a landscape garden , completely renovated by 2003 and officially inaugurated in 2005. |
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Dorfstrasse (south) , Stegeweg (middle) |
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| User groups | Pedestrian traffic , leisure | |
| Park design | Lichtenberg Green Space Office | |
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| Parking area | 190,000 m² | |
| building-costs | 560,000 euros | |
52 ° 34 '12.5 " N , 13 ° 32' 25.5" E
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The Gutspark Falkenberg is a public park in Berlin district of Falkenberg of Lichtenberg . It can be traced back to an earlier green area from the 14th century around the Falkenberg manor. The park was owned by the Humboldt family until the middle of the 20th century . It forms the entrance area to the Barnimer Feldmark Regional Park , a larger public local recreation facility, laid out at the beginning of the 21st century and constantly expanded.
history
In 1875, the city of Berlin bought the Gut Falkenberg property from the von Alvensleben family . Until 1804 the estate was owned by Ferdinand von Holwede, who inherited it from his mother Marie-Elisabeth von Humboldt in 1795 . Partial areas of the property should be used to create sewage fields ; However , the Berlin administration hardly bothered to preserve the remaining areas, especially around the former baroque pleasure garden and the preservation of the buildings. The manor house and farm buildings fell into disrepair, and the park became overgrown. In 1962, the first buildings had to be demolished because they were in disrepair.
In 1999, the then Hohenschönhausen District Office and the Senate Department for Urban Development announced a landscape planning ideas competition “for a contemporary urban park”. 53 suggestions were then submitted, Atelier Loidl Berlin won the competition and was entrusted with the detailed planning and redesign / renewal of the former Falkenberg estate.
The fallow land with partially sealed surfaces and unused buildings that had arisen over the course of a few decades was to be turned into a public park. The remaining buildings were demolished, and the overgrown old fruit orchard was upgraded with new plantings. All of the work was financed from EU funds, from funds from the district, from investment funds from the Environment Agency, from funds from the employment-creating infrastructure subsidy (BSI) as well as from compensation and substitute levies under the Berlin Nature Conservation Act totaling 576,000 euros. The Alpina company from Ahrensfelde carried out all the work.
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In connection with the inauguration of the renewed park on June 10, 2005, the then Lichtenberg City Councilor Andreas Geisel unveiled a large plaque with this text (see also picture):
“Gutspark Falkenberg, redesigned in 2003, now forms the entrance to the Barnimer Feldmark Regional Park.
The manor, which was laid out in the 14th century, and the residential and farm buildings that were built later had a lasting impact on the appearance of Falkenberg. The manor park was created in the Baroque style as a pleasure garden at the end of the 18th century and was redesigned in the landscape style in the second half of the 19th century.
In 1791, Marie-Elisabeth von Humboldt (1741–1796), mother of the learned brothers Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt, acquired the estate. The Humboldt Crypt is located in the Protestant cemetery.
The war-damaged manor house had to be demolished in 1962. "
The estate park is to be expanded in the future towards Barnim , i.e. beyond the Berlin city limits. The Stegeweg leads to the already completed public part of this Feldmark, past meadows with old fruit trees and aurochs on the pastures.
Description and special features in the park
A small pond with a reed bank edge forms the center of the facility. A restored romantic riverside path leads around it . The pond is a “second-order stagnant body of water” and is threatened with drying out due to the insufficient groundwater level. That is why the responsible district office of Lichtenberg has planned around 200,000 euros for renovation in its 2018 participatory budget.
In the park there are larger meadows, old maple trees , acacias , weeping willows , around 800 white and purple flowering rhododendron bushes , around 10,000 crocuses and other wild perennials have been planted . Paved, curved paths run through the park, rustic stairs and ramps overcome the gradient in the landscape, clinker walls absorb differences in height.
Not far from the memorial plaque is a processed boulder with the inscription "Adolfs Ruh / 1880"
Web links
- Barnim park landscape
- Hans-Jürgen Neßnau: Idyll with a pond and a frog concert . In: Neues Deutschland , August 16, 2004, accessed on March 4, 2018.
- Ingo Rößling: Manor park on the outskirts of the city attracts with pure natural idyll . In: Berliner Morgenpost , July 26, 2004, accessed on March 3, 2018.
- Barnimer Feldmark Regional Park
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Idyll with pond ...
- ^ Gut Falkenberg on the website of the Barnimer Feldmark Regional Park
- ↑ a b memorial plaque in Gutspark Falkenberg , accessed on March 3, 2018.
- ↑ a b Rößling: natural idyll ...
- ↑ Restoration of the lake in Gutspark Falkenberg, accessed on March 4, 2018.