Britz garden
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Aerial view of the Britz Garden, view from the east ( Britz ) to the west ( Mariendorf-Süd / Marienfelde ) |
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| place | Berlin |
| District | Britz |
| Created | 1985 |
| Newly designed | July 8, 1989 |
| Surrounding streets |
Mariendorfer Damm , Mohriner Allee , Buckower Damm |
| Buildings | Plant halls, mill construction , narrow-gauge railway , bridges |
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| User groups | Foot traffic ; Leisure , events |
| Park design | Landscape architects Wolfgang Miller & Georg Penker, collaboration Jürgen Dirk Zilling, Jasper Halfmann, Klaus Zillich |
| Technical specifications | |
| Parking area | 90 hectares |
The Britzer Garten is a landscape park that was opened on July 8, 1989. It represents an expansion and modernization of the former area of the Federal Horticultural Show of 1985 (BUGA 1985) in order to offer the population in the south of West Berlin a new local recreation area. The existing facilities and areas originate from the BUGA's subsequent use plans, for example exhibition halls in the vicinity have been converted into sports halls.
Location and history
The Britzer Garden was laid out in the mid-1980s for the BUGA 1985 on arable land and between surrounding allotment gardens (colonies) and market gardens. The colonies were largely preserved, but some had to give way to the planning and could not be included in the design concept.
The Britzer Garten, named after its location in the Berlin district of Britz , is located on the western edge of the Berlin district of Neukölln and borders the Mariendorf district . It is bordered by the main road axes Mariendorfer Damm , Mohriner Allee , Buckower Damm and the Britz / Buckow district boundary. The area to the west of Hüfnerweg , bounded clockwise by the former high-voltage line , Breiter Weg (then: Mariendorfer Weg ), Marienfelder Weg (→ Massiner / Sangerhauser Weg ) and by the Neukölln-Mittenwalder Railway with a possible rail connection was until the end of the 1920s 1930 projected as an airfield (Britz) of the German Aviation Research Institute . The project in Johannisthal / Adlershof was awarded the contract, so the Britz site remained vacant.
On the edge of the main streets around the Britzer Garten there are mostly open residential developments. There were already permanent colonies and nurseries around the following BUGA site. In the opening year 1985, the planning intention was to build an extension of the Berlin city motorway from the Gradestrasse junction through the garden area to the Berlin city limits, in order to be able to set up a new border crossing there with a continuation to the Berliner Ring . The Massiner Weg (formerly: Marienfelder Weg ) was divided by the BUGA site, so the southwestern section of the road that approached Mariendorf was named after the rose town of Sangerhausen , as it met the BUGA rose garden.
Park description
Overview and entrances
The main entrance to the garden is in the southeast on Buckower Damm next to the Neukölln park cemetery, not far from the Britzer Mühle . The fountain sculpture Fette Henne by Rolf Szymanski adorns the forecourt . There are further entrances on Sangerhauser Weg (in the south on the Rosengarten), on Tauernallee (in the south-west), on Mohriner Allee (north-west), on Massiner Weg (north-east at the main height of the state) and on the eastern edge on the blossom axis , which runs through this private path the golden rain colony is accessible from Hüfnerweg. Parking is available at the Mohriner Allee, Buckower Damm and Sangerhauser Weg entrances. While the first two are easily accessible via the BVG bus network , the entrances Tauernallee, Sangerhauser Weg or via the flower axis are further away from the bus stop on Quarzweg. The area is closed to dogs and cyclists, accordingly scooters and inline skates are not permitted in order to allow space for movement on foot and relaxation.
The Britzer Garden has 90 hectares and offers nature and garden art. The planning was carried out by the independent garden and landscape architects Wolfgang Miller and Georg Penker. The garden and landscape architects Jürgen Dirk Zilling, Jasper Halfmann and Klaus Zillich were involved, who had planned Europe's largest sundial with a diameter of 99 meters . The geography with lakes and elevations (main lake with love island, Irissee, Wildspitz) is artificially created. The gardens include the rose garden , a rhododendron grove , the Heidehof, play areas and extensive sunbathing areas, architecture and art, such as the Karl Foerster pavilion, a witch's garden and themed gardens, the landscaped nature with lakes and hills and finally colorful flower beds and their followers like swans and geese, or resident fish such as carp, catfish or rudd.
Organizationally, the Britzer Garten belongs to the state-owned Grün Berlin Park und Garten GmbH , which also includes the Britzer Mühle , the Gardens of the World (opened in 1987 as the Berlin Garden Show), Natur-Park Schöneberger Südgelände (former EXPO 2000 project) and Park am Gleisdreieck belong. The opening times vary according to the season and there is a fee to enter. The ticket offices open at 9 a.m., from April to September they close at 8 p.m., in March and October at 6 p.m. and from November to February at 4 p.m. The park is open at any time until dark. During the event "Fire Flowers and Classic Open Air", separate access conditions apply.
Britzer Parkbahn
The terrain can be traversed on a five-kilometer circuit with the Britzer Parkbahn. It has a track width of 600 mm and was set up as a garden show track with the Federal Garden Show . Some vehicles were based on historical models. From 1986 to 2012 the facility was the Britzer Museum Railway . A new operator was found in 2014 and the park lane has been in operation again since then. There are five stops on the railway: Buckower Damm, Heidehof, Rosengarten, Festplatz, Calendarplatz. The locomotive shed is located on the grounds of the service yard of the park cemetery (Hochspannungsweg 52).
Calendar space
The calendar space of the Britzer Garten is located in the north-eastern area of the park ( 52 ° 26 ′ 12 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 15 ″ E ) and was designed by the architects Clod Zillich , Jasper Halfmann and Jürgen Zilling . The large semicircular square with a diameter of 99 meters in the middle is also the dial of the sundial and marks the summer and winter solstices as well as the equinox . The time can be read on the minute ring. The shadow of the sun ball of the 14 meter high polo shows the date. The minute ring runs within a radius of seven meters around the base of the polo. 24 double pillars complete the square.
Events and special shows
There are events and special shows in the park all year round. The solstice festival , autumn dragon festival , Walpurgis night, St. Martin's parades and the “fire flowers and classic open air” with large fireworks and jazz and classical concerts take place at the “Festplatz am See” . Noteworthy is the "Tulipan" tulip show, which attracts groups of visitors from April to May with tulips in all shapes and colors. In the following months the rhododendrons will bloom. The dahlia show "Dahlia Fire" follows annually in autumn.
buildings
The Britzer mill with a height of 20 meters and a wing length of 12 meters was renovated when the Britzer Garden was laid out in the course of the Federal Horticultural Show in 1985. If there is enough wind, one of the last two fully functional windmills in the Berlin city area is ground.
The “Café am See” was designed in 1985 by the architect Engelbert Kremser using earthwork technology. The restaurant “Seeterrassen”, a “Bistro am Kalenderplatz”, the small ice cream parlor “Am Modelboothafen” and a few other opportunities offer catering.
- Landscape Park - Britz Garden
"Calendar place"
Fairground
Pond at the calendar place
Autumn mood
Park lane
- Tulipan - Tulip Show
- Dahlia show
- Pollard willows (March 2018)
literature
- Clemens Alexander Wimmer : Parks and Gardens in Berlin and Potsdam. Ed. Senator for Urban Development and Environmental Protection, Section III - Garden Monument Preservation; Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, 3rd edition, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-87584-267-7 , pp. 84–91.
Web links
- Britz garden. Grün Berlin GmbH, accessed on March 19, 2016 .
- Britzer Parkbahn in Berlin. Feldbahn-Betriebsgesellschaft Peter Erk, accessed on March 19, 2016 .
- Britz garden. In: stadtentwicklung.berlin.de. Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment - Berlin, accessed on March 19, 2016 .
- Route map of the Britz garden. (PDF; 842 kB) July 14, 2017, accessed on December 1, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ FIS broker (location of the Britzer Garten in the regional maps on the map of Berlin 1: 5000 (K5 color edition)) of the Berlin Senate Department for Urban Development and Environment
- ↑ compare the Berlin plans from 1960 to 1980 ( page no longer available , search in web archives: pages 4031 and 4032 )
- ↑ pages 4031, 4032, 4035 from 1930
- ↑ Britz Garden. In: gruen-berlin.de. Grün Berlin GmbH, accessed on March 19, 2016 : "Opening times daily from 9:00 a.m. until dark"
- ↑ Largest sundial in Europe in the Britz garden
- ↑ The calendar place | Britz garden. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Engelbert Kremser: Earth architecture. In: www.engelbertkremser.de. Retrieved March 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Gastronomy points on the park map
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 0 ″ E