Johannes Prassek Park

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Johannes Prassek Park

The Johannes-Prassek-Park is a park in the Hamburg district of Barmbek-Süd .

location

The approximately 2-hectare park was created on the site of a former gas works and forms part of a green connection between Barmbek-Süd and the Hamburg city park . It is roughly bounded by the Osterbek Canal in the north, the AlsterCity office complex in the east, Weidestrasse in the south and some commercial buildings in the west.

Entrances to the park are from the south from Weidestrasse and from the north from the car-free Osterbekstrasse. At the north end, the Heinz-Gärtner-Brücke has been connecting to the Winterhuder Jarrestadt over the Osterbek Canal since 2013 . There is a Stadtrad Hamburg station at the corner of Weidestrasse .

construction

The plant extends in north-south direction for about 300 meters. In the east-west direction it is over 100 m wide in the north, but only a narrow space less than 30 meters wide at the southern end. In north-south direction, a four-meter-wide path runs through the park as the main axis. It is surrounded in the south by a square-like structure, in the middle by several smaller playgrounds and football fields and at the north end by a large meadow with trees.

History and naming

The Johannes-Prassek-Park was inaugurated in June 2011. It is named after the Lübeck martyr Johannes Prassek , who was born in Barmbek in 1911. The bridge over the Osterbek Canal was named after the social democratic resistance fighter and SPD functionary Heinz Gärtner (1916–2001) from Winterhude.

A park at this point was planned for 1994 at the latest. It was intended to compensate for the “massive development” of the neighboring property through the up to 17-story AlsterCity office complex of the building contractor Helmut Greve .

However, the realization was also delayed due to lengthy negotiations with Greve, who owned the park area in the 1990s. The city of Hamburg agreed to swap space: the site of today's Johannes-Prassek-Park was swapped for urban building land. To compensate for the higher value of the building land, the entrepreneur should bear the costs of building the park and Heinz-Gärtner-Brücke. There was then a dispute about the exact form of the agreement, which led to a standstill for many years.

Web links

Commons : Johannes-Prassek-Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes-Prassek-Park at Hamburg.de; accessed on August 9, 2015
  2. ↑ Heinz-Gärtner-Brücke will be finished three weeks later. Hamburger Abendblatt, May 29, 2013
  3. ↑ Urban development: Hamburg gets the Johannes-Prassek-Park. Hamburger Abendblatt, June 22, 2011
  4. ↑ New bridge inaugurated . In: Hamburger Wochenblatt . August 28, 2013 ( online [accessed June 25, 2016]). online ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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.hamburger-wochenblatt.de
  5. ↑ Gardener, Heinz. Working group of formerly persecuted social democrats (AvS) in the SPD Hamburg, accessed on June 25, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Printed matter 16/6079 of the Hamburg citizenship
  7. ↑ Barmbek-Süd: When will the billionaire finally build the park? Hamburger Morgenpost, August 29, 2006

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 56 "  N , 10 ° 1 ′ 32.3"  E