Hans Baluschek Park

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Hans-Baluschek-Park in Berlin-Schöneberg

The Hans-Baluschek-Park , originally Priester-Pape-Park , is a park on the edge of the Schöneberg southern area in the Berlin district of Tempelhof-Schöneberg . The park, which was completed in 2002, essentially consists of three elements: large lawns, a 1.5-kilometer path and four designed spaces along the path.

The park runs in a north-south direction along the former route of the Berlin-Dresdener Eisenbahn (today: S-Bahn lines S2 and S25) between the S-Bahn stations Priesterweg and Südkreuz (formerly: Papestraße ). It is bounded in the east by the S-Bahn route and in the west by allotment garden colonies . The park has an average width of less than 50 meters and an area of ​​seven hectares .

The park runs along a four meter wide and 1500 meter long paved path and four squares along the path, each dedicated to a theme and designed accordingly:

  • Place of the game,
  • Picnic place,
  • Place of the sun and
  • Place of sport.

These allow a view of the rest of the Schöneberg southern area and the silhouette of the south of Berlin. In addition to the pitches, there are various dry meadows. The vegetation consists mainly of locust trees and birches . Since the main path of the park is straight, level and smooth asphalt, it is very popular with inline skaters and cyclists. According to the city ​​newspaper zitty , however, the high number of families with small children in the park prevents really sporty inline skating. According to the plan, it should be part of a continuous path for cyclists from Potsdamer Platz to the Schöneberger Südgelände. and thus part of the long- distance cycle route Berlin-Leipzig .

  • Place of the game

  • Picnic place

  • Place of the sun

  • Sports square with corten steel border and a view of the gasometer

The park was opened in 2004 as a compensation measure for the land consumption in the course of the expansion of the Berlin city ring . The builders, the state of Berlin and Grün Berlin, paid a total of seven million marks for this . In doing so, landscape architect Gabriele G. Kiefer was guided by her principle, which is otherwise represented, of combining only a few elements with geometric shapes. 250 trees were planted during the work. Pine reduced the number of trees and building materials. The birch and locust trees are supposed to be reminiscent of the typical ruderal vegetation on railway lines. The Corten steel from which embankments and path borders are designed is also frequently used for railway traffic structures. Coal and building materials from the Senate Reserve were stored there until after the political change .

A footbridge over the railway line leads from the park to the Schöneberger Südgelände Nature Park , the overgrown former Tempelhof marshalling yard , some of which has been designated a nature reserve.

The park is named after the painter and writer Hans Baluschek , who lived in the nearby Ceciliengärten settlement in the late 1920s . The working and tendering title was Priester-Pape-Park. Among other things, the park was recognized in 2005 in the exhibition 10 under 100 of the Berlin-Brandenburg section of the Association of German Landscape Architects, in which current examples of good landscape design with inexpensive implementation were shown.

literature

  • Michael Kasiske: A park as an urban promenade. Berlin in Garten + Landschaft No. 6, 2003 pp. 20–22
  • Thies Schröder and Hans Joosten: Büro Kiefer - Rekombinations / Recombinations . Publishing house Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2005

Web links

Commons : Hans-Baluschek-Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hans-Baluschek-Park (Schöneberger Südgelände). k1 landscape architects, accessed January 16, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b Mikas: Legible Green Spaces , the daily newspaper December 3, 2005
  3. ^ Franziska Felber: Inline skating routes. (No longer available online.) In: zitty . June 22, 2012, archived from the original on December 2, 2012 ; Retrieved January 13, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zitty.de
  4. ↑ Nature Park South Area: Hans-Baluschek-Park. Grün Berlin GmbH, accessed on January 13, 2013 .
  5. ↑ S. Garkisch, HVB Ingenieurgesellschaft, arr. A. Stahl: Urban redevelopment east and west: Networking of urban spaces: Schöneberg Loop / feasibility study section on the S2, Bautzener Pl. To OW-Spange. In: Berlin.de. Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, accessed on January 16, 2013 .
  6. ↑ a b holiday resorts; Garden monument maintenance: Priester-Pape-Park. (No longer available online.) In: ak-berlin.de. Berlin Chamber of Architects, archived from the original on August 11, 2014 ; Retrieved January 16, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ak-berlin.de
  7. ↑ a b Urban Development Berlin: Green on Federal Motorways , accessed January 13, 2013
  8. ↑ Marianne Mommsen: 10 under 100 euros per m², garden world exhibition and guided tours of the bdla Berlin-Brandenburg. (PDF, 54 KB) In: Landschaftsarchitekten, issue 4/2005, p. 19-16 December 2005, accessed on 16 January 2013 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 1 ″  N , 13 ° 21 ′ 35 ″  E