Hofwiesenpark
The Hofwiesenpark is a park in Gera in Thuringia , which separates the western city center from the Untermhaus district . The park is named after its location on the mountain with the former Osterstein Castle . In the park there is an indoor swimming pool ( Hofwiesenbad ) and the Stadium of Friendship .
For the Federal Garden Show 2007 in Gera and Ronneburg , the Hofwiesenpark (next to the New Ronneburg Landscape ) was one of the two main exhibition areas.
history
The Hofwiesen, first mentioned in 1636 and 1647, were originally a wide, undeveloped area between the western edge of the original town (which was bordered around 1900 by the Mühlgraben and the railway line that still exists today) and the White Elster . To the north there was the kitchen garden with the baroque orangery and the kitchen garden avenue, which was a popular villa location in the then prosperous industrial area.
In 1934 there were plans to build a large town hall on the Hofwiesen, but they were never implemented. After the Second World War, the Hofwiesen area was redesigned by the GDR leadership into a sports park, starting with the Stadium of Friendship (1952), which later became the Erwin Panndorf Sports Hall (1969), a modern indoor swimming pool (1974) and numerous smaller ones Sports facilities followed. On January 10, 1974, the 18th Polytechnic High School next to the Erwin-Panndorf-Halle was handed over, which in 1975 also received the name Panndorfs. The four-lane road Am Stadion was built as the eastern boundary , over which the trunk road (and later federal road) F 2 was routed. The previously existing summer pool (1924) with the old indoor pool from 1892 formed the southern end of the area.
Federal Garden Show 2007
With regard to the Federal Garden Show, the area was given back its former park character and the name Hofwiesen through extensive construction work .
Planning
In the planning for the BUGA, which was awarded to Gera in 1997, the Hofwiesenpark played a decisive role as Gera's main part of the show and, at the same time, the western end of the green belt that was to extend into the center of Ronneburg . In February 2000 a Europe-wide design competition was announced for the park; At the jury meeting on June 23 and 24, 2000, the plan of the Dresden landscape architects Hermann Kokenge and Christoph Ritter's office was chosen as the winning work. It already contained the idea of dividing the park with characteristic ovals.
By September 2002 the planning was further concretised by the winning office. Among other things, the design envisaged lowering parts of the park area and breaking the dam on the White Elster in several places in order to enable visual axes from the park to the water of the river. However, these ideas were abandoned due to flood control concerns.
Construction work
The Erwin-Panndorf-Halle was demolished and rebuilt in a new place, the now outdated swimming pool was replaced by the modern Hofwiesenbad , which opened in 2003 . Primary school 2 (in the building of the former 18th POS) moved into an extension of the modernized Otto Dix regular school in Gutenbergstrasse in the summer of 2000; the POS building was also later demolished. The main road was dismantled and replaced in 2005 by a new road closer to the city center. Some industrial wastelands east of the former main road were redesigned and included in the park, so the former Mühlgraben got its above-ground bed back after decades of piping in this area.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the design of the Hofwiesenpark itself took place on December 17, 2004. Work continued until the opening of the Federal Garden Show on April 27, 2007.
The park for the BUGA
The centerpiece of the park design for the BUGA are four so-called ovals: in addition to the Stadium of Friendship, three main objects in the park were surrounded by an oval earth wall. These include the game Oval (playground), the Hofwiesenbühne and the (outside the site location BUGA) Hofwiesenbad . The former summer pool at the southern end of the park was closed and included in the exhibition under the name Karibiko .
The kitchen garden, which is no longer separated from the grounds of the Hofwiesen by the main road, and the neighboring villas with the green area of today's Biermannplatz were also included in the exhibition concept.
The Hofwiesenpark exhibition area also included objects on the other bank of the White Elster: the Villa Jahr and the Hofgut below Schloss Osterstein . These were connected to the Hofwiesenpark by two pedestrian bridges, the Textimasteg and the Untermhäuser Bridge .
postprocessing
After the Federal Horticultural Show, which ended on October 14, 2007, the park was temporarily closed. Annual plants were removed from the soil and returned to the nurseries. Temporary facilities such as marquees, cash registers and souvenir shops have been removed. On November 1, 2007, responsibility for the Hofwiesenpark was transferred from BUGA 2007 GmbH to an integration company founded by Geraer Lebenshilfe on behalf of the city of Gera, which employs 40% of the disabled. It is intended to maintain the green areas in the future and prepare the park for permanent use for recreation and leisure activities. In particular, the flower show, game oval and event oval should be preserved. The tree nursery garden, originally intended for dismantling, was preserved in November 2007 through a donation campaign by the Ostthüringer Zeitung .
Use after the Federal Garden Show
Around five months after the end of the BUGA, the Hofwiesenpark was reopened on Good Friday 2008 (March 21). It is now open to visitors every day from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., in summer until 10 p.m. Since 2008, the Hofwiesenparkfest has been held every year on the last weekend in April, around the anniversary of the BUGA opening in 2007, to mark the symbolic season opening in the park.
During the flood on June 3, 2013 , large parts of the Hofwiesenpark were flooded with the Stadium of Friendship. After the first repair measures, the park was opened to the public again on June 28, 2013.
In the years 2013 and 2014 the music festival 360 Grad Heimat took place in July in the Hofwiesenpark .
Individual evidence
- ^ Uwe Müller: Hofwiesenpark ready to receive , Ostthüringer Zeitung, March 20, 2008.
- ↑ Hofwiesenpark reopened. gera.de, June 26, 2013, accessed June 6, 2014 .
literature
- Winfried Pickart (ed.), Andreas Vieweg: Federal Garden Show 2007. Gera and Ronneburg. A region changes. Winfried Pickart self-published, Hartmannsdorf 2007. ISBN 978-3-00-021282-6
Web links
- Page of the Federal Horticultural Show 2007
- Association for the sustainable promotion of the idea of the Federal Horticultural Show Gera - Ronneburg 2007 eV
- Pictures of the renovation of the Hofwiesenpark (350 pictures from 2004 - 2007)
- Before after pictures of the renovation of the Hofwiesenpark (50 locations from the years 2000 - 2007)
Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 48 ″ N , 12 ° 4 ′ 12 ″ E